Anyone keep farm/barnyard animals?

MikeTodd
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We have the "Chicken Barn" (as my kids call it) being built and picked up 25 straight run chicks today. We are hoping to maintain 20-30 egg layers. We are building the coop with the ability to add on for goats or sheep or something in the coming years.
Anyone else have livestock?








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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    15 chickens and a rooster, produce more eggs than 4 families can eat.
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  • MikeTodd
    MikeTodd Posts: 974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice! We also have a honey bee hive as well.
  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I half expected Rain to pop in with a goat joke. LOL!
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  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One of my brothers kept a flock of chickens for a while. He told me that it's not necessary to have a rooster if all you want are the eggs. He said a rooster is only necessary if you want chicks - I.e., to increase your flock or to stock your freezer. 

    I'm a city boy and I grew up thinking no rooster - no eggs. Silly me....
  • jarubla
    jarubla Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We keep chickens, the eggs are fantastic
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  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    One of my brothers kept a flock of chickens for a while. He told me that it's not necessary to have a rooster if all you want are the eggs. He said a rooster is only necessary if you want chicks - I.e., to increase your flock or to stock your freezer. 

    I'm a city boy and I grew up thinking no rooster - no eggs. Silly me....
    The rooster is there to protect his hens. 
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  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    webmost said:
    jlmarta said:
    One of my brothers kept a flock of chickens for a while. He told me that it's not necessary to have a rooster if all you want are the eggs. He said a rooster is only necessary if you want chicks - I.e., to increase your flock or to stock your freezer. 

    I'm a city boy and I grew up thinking no rooster - no eggs. Silly me....
    The rooster is there to protect his hens. 
    Uh, are you sure?  Is that all?  How come ya frequently see 'em on top of a hen?  Protection?  ....   :#
  • Dark_Roast
    Dark_Roast Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    webmost said:
    jlmarta said:
    One of my brothers kept a flock of chickens for a while. He told me that it's not necessary to have a rooster if all you want are the eggs. He said a rooster is only necessary if you want chicks - I.e., to increase your flock or to stock your freezer. 

    I'm a city boy and I grew up thinking no rooster - no eggs. Silly me....
    The rooster is there to protect his hens. 
    Uh, are you sure?  Is that all?  How come ya frequently see 'em on top of a hen?  Protection?  ....   :#
    Doubt they wear any.
  • Patrickbrick
    Patrickbrick Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My wife keeps me around does that count?
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  • 90+_Irishman
    90+_Irishman Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Patrickbrick said:
    My wife keeps me around does that count?
    Well all guys are "pigs" haha

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  • Guitarded
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    Patrickbrick said:
    My wife keeps me around does that count?
    That makes her a zookeeper !!
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  • jgibv
    jgibv Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭✭✭
    would love to get a goat so i didn't have to mow the grass.....but "farm animals" are prohibited by city ordinance.

    we are allowed to have egg-laying chickens, but neither the wife nor i are big egg eaters.


    wife's family had beef cattle & pigs when she was growing up.....but they haven't done livestock for years now.
    her dad still raises about 150 chickens for meat each fall though and is generous enough to share them with the family (he keeps our freezer stocked with some delicious birds!!!)

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  • MikeTodd
    MikeTodd Posts: 974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now that you guys have had your fun. Here are all 40 birds under the same roof. We aren't sure which of the 35 chicks we are keepingand there are 5 older Buff Orpingtons that should be laying those beautiful brown eggs in about 2 weeks!



  • miller65rod
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    Chicken in the bread pan peck'n out dough. Looks nice.

    Hell with the eggs you got some fryers there.
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  • MikeTodd
    MikeTodd Posts: 974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    miller65rod said:
    Chicken in the bread pan peck'n out dough. Looks nice.

    Hell with the eggs you got some fryers there.
    Yeah!! I got 10 Rhode Island Reds which are great dual purpose birds and make great broilers!!! Big breast on them birds!!
  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    nothing wrong with big breast, couldnt resist when I saw it wasnt censored.
    nice pen @MikeTodd
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  • miller65rod
    miller65rod Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Did someone say Breast?

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  • MikeTodd
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  • Martel
    Martel Posts: 3,306 ✭✭✭✭
    Some "neighbors" (close enough, I can see them on the next hill) have a henhouse.  I've learned "what does the fox say" quite well.  I wonder how much poultry survives.
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  • rsherman24
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    0patience said:
    I half expected Rain to pop in with a goat joke. LOL!
    I think @Rain likes sheep

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  • MikeTodd
    MikeTodd Posts: 974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Finally getting eggs! We get between 8-9 a day now and have 21 hens total.

  • TaraLee
    TaraLee Posts: 179 ✭✭✭
    We have 3 small hens for eggs. We are in town, but have a decent size backyard. About 1/3 of it is fenced off for our garden beds and the coop. The hens' coop gets opened each morning and they get to wander and scratch around in the fenced area. 

    Someday we plan to have property. Then I'll be able to have pet chickens for eggs and meat chickens too!
  • arch72
    arch72 Posts: 772 ✭✭✭✭
    When I was younger my family had a few goats we always had milk so much that we made butter with some of it and my mom made cheese it was really good milk and not processed good for the body lol
  • MikeTodd
    MikeTodd Posts: 974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WE GOT PIGS!!!


  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey, wait. I think I know one of those gals. Uh,.... Oh, no. I guess not. Sorry......  :p

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