Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[vehve]

Areolyn, they're a good source of meat. I hear they multiply like rabbits.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: I'll bet. Love watching chicken and poultry tv. lol

 

[chickadoodles]

I had 35 rabbits and the biggest pain was the cold winters and the frozen water bottles. I do enjoy rabbits and love the rabbit dinner.

 

[Amberjem]

1 doe can produce about 200 pounds of meat a year

 

[ocap]

1 doe can produce about 200 pounds of meat a year

if an australorp lays 300 eggs and 67% hatch and grow to six pounds we will get 1200 pounds of live chicken but.....we need artificial incubation and a doe can out do a broody hen, in my opinion.

 

[Areolyn]

:O I love to eat it in native dishes, very delicious!

By the way, if anyone near the Wallingford, Connecticut area wants a free leghorn pullet apparently someone has one according to the chicken chick on my facebook.

 

[pollitos2013]

Just a beginner here @Vehve and Bunny but someone gave us a baby rabbit in August and we have kept her very easily with the chickens. She sleeps in the coop with the chickens and stays in the run when we free range the chickens outside of their run. She eats chicken food and greens and she is friendly with our dog and kitties too.

Our run has chicken wire dug down around the edge and old 4x4s dug in on top of that.

 

[3goodeggs]

I know someone selling rabbits the next town over...I thought of getting a couple but after seeing that the backyard is already filled with chickens, I think I'll pass haha. Coffee is gonna be my new energy source next monday...classes start again and I am ready for the fun ones, but not the others And this dang cold keeps fluctuating! Darn you Texas weather!

Hope you feel better! Enjoy the fun classes...and I hope there is something to enjoy in each of the non fun one too!

 

[Puddin Fluff]

'Morning all. I need lots of coffee today. Lost one of our favorite pullets yesterday. Hubby saw it happen. We have a few young ones who like to fly out of the pen and free range on their own. We haven't worried too much about it. We are in the country but with the llamas dogs usually steer clear and hawks are our biggest predator. Hubby heard the chickens squaking and can out of the shop in time to see, what he says was a wolf trotting off with our bird. One of our llamas was headed fr it but they were too far away when it attacked.

This was about 3:30 in the afternoon. Weird circumstances. Officials say there are no wolves in Arkansas but I remember hearing them when I was a kid. What ever it was, it is a new issue to deal with.

 

[sunflour]

'Morning all. I need lots of coffee today. Lost one of our favorite pullets yesterday. Hubby saw it happen. We have a few young ones who like to fly out of the pen and free range on their own. We haven't worried too much about it. We are in the country but with the llamas dogs usually steer clear and hawks are our biggest predator. Hubby heard the chickens squaking and can out of the shop in time to see, what he says was a wolf trotting off with our bird. One of our llamas was headed fr it but they were too far away when it attacked.

This was about 3:30 in the afternoon. Weird circumstances. Officials say there are no wolves in Arkansas but I remember hearing them when I was a kid. What ever it was, it is a new issue to deal with.

So sorry about your loss. Hope you can figure out how to protect the others, wolves are usually in packs?