What pets do you have besides chickens? Take the poll!

[igorsMistress]

This is Bullet, our JRT
Doesn't he have a lovely smile?

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

Not sure how old these guys are but this was the first time I seen them venture out of their burrow.

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Your rabbits? I'm curious what type of set up you have for them to be able to breed like that, if you'd share. We've got rabbits and are (trying to) breeding mainly for meat, so I'm just looking for different set ups and etc. We want to avoid feeding pellets if possible.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Your rabbits? I'm curious what type of set up you have for them to be able to breed like that, if you'd share. We've got rabbits and are (trying to) breeding mainly for meat, so I'm just looking for different set ups and etc. We want to avoid feeding pellets if possible.

We have colony set ups and free range. That is a litter that was from a free range doe that made her burrow in the barn.
Somenof ours are completely free range and eat like wild rabbits or find food that is intended for our other animals. We don't feed them at all.
Some of the free range hang around the barn and go back and forth from eating wild to eating hay out of the barn. That what that doe does.
In the colony setups we feed a variety of things but I always keep a bale of alfafa in the pens. Sometimes we give them Timothy bales instead.
We don't raise ours for meat or profit so its not the best set up for raising maximum numbers.
The colony set ups I like but having trouble with losing small kits to predators. Last year it was snakes and this year its to rats. Hard to get a large enclosure completely rat or snake proof but if we did we would be over run with rabbits in a hurry.

 

[jvls1942]

a pair of geese,
5 guinea roosters, no hens.
25 chickens, which might be sold today.
11 dogs like you see in my avatar.
the breeding pair and nine puppies looking
for new homes.
they are 6 weeks old . Maremma LGD

......jiminwisc........

 

[Silkie2]

a pair of geese,
5 guinea roosters, no hens.
25 chickens, which might be sold today.
11 dogs like you see in my avatar.
the breeding pair and nine puppies looking
for new homes.
they are 6 weeks old . Maremma LGD

......jiminwisc........

Aww! They're cute! Are they Pyreneeses?
You of course aren't selling them now, right? (They should be 8 weeks)

 

[Legendchicken]

I have 2 zebra finches

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[jvls1942]

Silkie2, not Pyrenese..
very similar. these are Maremma.
Originally from Italy.
brought to the USA in the 1870's.
not very well known about , yet.
Yes, they are being sold now.
they are weaned. eating solid puppy chow mixed with water . and sneaking into mama's bowl for some of her dry food.
they are at the perfect bonding age. very friendly and responsive to being petted and played with.
there are 8 left. 4 girls, 4 boys.
......jiminwisc........

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

We have colony set ups and free range. That is a litter that was from a free range doe that made her burrow in the barn.
Somenof ours are completely free range and eat like wild rabbits or find food that is intended for our other animals. We don't feed them at all.
Some of the free range hang around the barn and go back and forth from eating wild to eating hay out of the barn. That what that doe does.
In the colony setups we feed a variety of things but I always keep a bale of alfafa in the pens. Sometimes we give them Timothy bales instead.
We don't raise ours for meat or profit so its not the best set up for raising maximum numbers.
The colony set ups I like but having trouble with losing small kits to predators. Last year it was snakes and this year its to rats. Hard to get a large enclosure completely rat or snake proof but if we did we would be over run with rabbits in a hurry.

Very interesting. Thanks a lot for the reply, I appreciate it! How big are your colonies?

 

[Flufferes]

Fish, cat, dog, ducks.

 

[Flufferes]

Here they are except the fish.
Technically the dog is a puppy.