[Ag-eq] FW: Chickens

[Tracy Carcione]

It's good to find useful materials for free, but I always hear one must be 
careful not to use treated wood, because the chemicals will leach into the 
garden soil.  I was going to use some wood leftover from a patio project, 
but it was obviously full of something like creosote, so I had to toss it 
instead.
Tracy

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Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] FW: Chickens


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> Jody:
>
> Yes, it takes a pretty good fence to keep in goats.  I have chain link, 
> which
> seems to work well.  One side is only 4 feet and I know one of the little 
> girls
> can jump that high, but she won't leave her herd.  No climb fencing, and
> probably hog wiring would keep them in too.  I've also heard of people 
> using
> electrical fencing to keep them in.  I think you have to run 3 or 4 wires 
> for
> it to work.  There is a good chapter on keeping goats in Barn Yard in Your
> Backyard.  She goes into quite  a lot of detail on fencing.
>
> How big is your pond?
>
> What kind of ducks do you want to get?
>
> Yes, Mike did the slaughtering all by himself.  I hate to admit this, but 
> I'm
> too much of a girly girl to help with that kind of thing!  He said it's 
> not
> hard, but I really don't know.  I hid in the house while it was happening!
>
> Mike is a hunter and has experience with ducks, quail and wild turkeys. 
> He's
> also slaughtered deer and elk.  He even raised his own pigs and did all 
> the
> slaughtering himself.  I don't even know how to cook meat; I've been a
> vegetarian for over 20 years.
>
> You can build raised beds out of most anything.  I've used land scaping 
> timbers,
> bricks and concrete blockss.  Right now I have several beds built out of 
> old
> packing crates.  I have 2 old horse watering containners that are about 4 
> feet
> across and 2 feet deep.  I have some herbs  planted in half barrels and 
> will
> plant my peppers in them too.  I like to spend as little money as 
> possible.  My
> planters may not be pretty, but they work.  People have given me materials 
> for
> raised beds because they thought it was trash.
>
> Nella
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> Quoting Jody Ianuzzi <jody at thewhitehats.com>:
>
>> Hello Nella,
>>
>> Hmmm, I like the idea the goats would clear the brush and be companions 
>> for
>> horses.  I have heard they are hard to contain and they climb out of most
>> fences.  Is that true?
>>
>> I would also like to get some ducks but we have to clear out the pond 
>> which
>> is stagnant now.  I would like to stock it with tilapia.
>>
>> You got roosters instead of hens.   Hahahaha, yes, that is one reason why 
>> we
>> didn't get chicks.  Did Mike slaughter them himself?  I think that is
>> inevitable but we have to learn more about doing it ourselves.  Is it 
>> hard
>> to gut out a chicken and are the feathers hard to remove?
>>
>> Tom says we are running a chicken sanctuary because we plan to keep Gabby
>> for life because she has such a sweet personality.  <GRIN>
>>
>> Can you describe how you build a raised bed?  We have a high water table
>> here and I think that would be a good idea.
>>
>> I am glad this list is active again.  I was afraid everyone had frozen.
>> <GRIN>
>>
>> JODY
>>
>>
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