12-10-2008, 12:35 PM
I plan on having ducks instead of chickens. If you have domesticated chickens, they will expect you feed them where ducks tend to be better foragers.
They say the trick is, to have Khki Cambells for eggs (ave 300 per year_ and raise Muskovy ducks for meat and they will set the K. Cambell eggs.
The whole thing for me is not having a feed bill, for my family or my livestock.
But if I do have Chickens the will be a low maintenance breed.
I raised chickens and turkeys when I was a kid. if it wasn't fowl pox, it was coccidiosis.
Rabbits are another great way to raise protean cheaply.
They say the trick is, to have Khki Cambells for eggs (ave 300 per year_ and raise Muskovy ducks for meat and they will set the K. Cambell eggs.
The whole thing for me is not having a feed bill, for my family or my livestock.
But if I do have Chickens the will be a low maintenance breed.
I raised chickens and turkeys when I was a kid. if it wasn't fowl pox, it was coccidiosis.
Rabbits are another great way to raise protean cheaply.