Howdy. Anyone ever raise Flemish x New Zealand buns? How big would one be at maturity? Somewhere in between the 2 breeds? If you kept does and rebred to New Zealand or Californian, would you get a good meat bun with good feed conversion? At what age could you breed a F x NZ doe?
I added a large terracotta water catcher (Intended to sit under flower pot) to cage... like tile, but more like a flat bowl to catch waste. I've been thinking better way would be redesigned feeders...
Definitely not a flying predator... needed to pry door. This was a heavy, full grown chicken...don't think a coon would have dragged her. I found a trail of feathers along the back of my garden fence, so carried along ground first, then up a tree.
Thank you for your thoughtful response. Still at a loss for what predator would have dragged my girl 40 feet into the woods and then up a tree. The predator got into a covered run (that had been weakened in one spot where a neighbor felled a tree -- the top of which reached 30 feet into my...
Last night, I heard a ruckus out back around 11pm... found a flashlight and went running out to find that my chicken coop had suffered an attack. All was quiet when I got out there, then I heard a ""thud" in the woods, followed by my girl making a lot of noise back there. So I grabbed a...
Does Kangkung (Ipomoea aquatica) grow on your island? The high protein levels are good for fast growing young rabbits and nursing does. (Don't think you want to give tons of it to fully grown buns.) Water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) as replacement for guinea grass for growing and lactating rabbits