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My girls don't even hop chicken wire. My main concern is the neighbor dogs. We have several acres and I'm planning on fencing probably 2.5 of them. But I am concerned about the stupid neighbor dogs either hoping the fence or breaking it. Ironically 3 from one house were just here and tried going...

I'm not new to rural living, but I am new to neighbors who let their dogs roam. I have at least 3 neighbors where I currently live on several acres who let their large dogs roam free. Talking to them doesn't work and I'd rather not deal with the headache and drama of either shooting their dogs...

Thanks. I like to deal with things just between people, but my neighbor doesn't seem to give a crap. So, I'm probably going to have to call animal control too. The neighbor's dogs were on my property today less than 24 hr since my last interaction with my neighbor. Some how I don't think my...

Aynesidea, I know this thread is a little older, but your situation sounds like mine. I've got a neighbor near me who has tons of cats and multiple dogs that regularly run across several acres of her property and then several acres of my property to try to dig into our coop. I can't even let my...

My husband is considering taking a job in Missouri, but we are concerned about finding a place to butcher our chickens out there. We have been raising all our own chickens for several years and don't want to give that up since food shortages seem to be in the US's future. We don't really have...

So, I have been working on convincing my husband to let me raise chickens for years. We have ducks, but those are pets not food. Now that we live in the country the only thing keeping me back from getting chickens is knowing where to get them processed and how much it costs. I know we...

Thanks. :)

So, I have been working on convincing my husband to let me raise chickens for years. We have ducks, but those are pets not food. Now that we live in the country the only thing keeping me back from getting chickens is knowing where to get them processed and how much it costs. I know we...

Does anyone know of anywhere reputable that does a good job of processing chickens somewhere near the Columbus/Chillicothe area and how much they charge? What is it like when they process them? Is it just kill, pluck, and gut or do they cut it up, debone it, and flash freeze it? I'm wanting to...

Cool. What breeds of geese do you do?

I'll have to wait until the February batch. Do you just post on this thread when you are hatching them?

I have a question that may sound like a dumb question, but I grew up in the suburbs where all our chickens came neatly packaged and the only livestock we had were four pet ducks. How do you preserve all your chicken meat? I'd love to have my own homegrown free range flock of chicken tenders...

It'll be a while before I could get any because I'm in the middle of selling my place and moving, but I do have a few questions for you. Can you sex day old ducklings? I'm in Ohio too. Do you allow pickups for the duckling so they don't have to be mailed? How much do you charge for them? How...

Are the ducklings you hatch straight run only? I'd love to get a couple female Anconas ducks, but pretty much everyone only offer straight run.

Are they straight run or sexed? I'd be possibly interested in a few females to add to my flock.

Cool. Thanks. I'll check them out.

I am planning on adding a couple ducks to my flock and would love to add a magpie and ancona but I can't seem to find anywhere online to order sexed ducklings. I already have four females so I don't really want any frames for the obvious reason that I don't want twenty new birds in a year...

Ok, wierd thing happened this morning. I went to let my girls out of their house this morning and found the usual random duck egg by the front door of thier house (Thier house is two dog houses that we put together to make one long duck house.) That was pretty normal. They started laying a...

I read on Meyer's site that they had expanded due to high demand. I don't think they got them from Metzer because Metzer doesn't offer all of the same breeds that Meyer does. If I'd known I was going to be having birds coming from California I very well might have ordered their white layer.or...

They are four or five days old. Their room is 71-73 degrees. When they have the red light which 250 they hide from it. They literally get as far away as possible and after a while start panting. They seem very comfortable in the white light which is 150 and lay sort of near it, but not under...