Ask Me About Farm Animals

[Ed Normile]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1299002244' post='2216821']
You can reuse the shotgun to hunt though.
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Uh, yeah, but the shot is spent. along with the money for the shot. Then of course you have all that lead polluting the ground water, unless you use the even more expensive non-lead shot.

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[Ed Normile]

Lil Mon, maybe with your vast experience with animals you may know of some simpler animals for Canadian farmers to raise. Something that would not require as much complex care as a chicken or a cow, our friends up north spend many a month frozen indoors and need something easier so as not to overburden their minds, any help would probably bring them up to first world nation status and would be a great act of detente to engage in.

ed

Edited March 2, 2011 by Ed Normile

[Lil'Monster]

[size="2"][b]"What do you think about buying chickens mail order. Is it hard to keep the chicks alive? Would I need a special chicken brooder heater thing?"

[/b]good question i think buying chicks thru the mail is a good idea! there are many chicken hatcheries out there like: Murray McMurray (Iowa), Randall Burkey Company(Texas), and Belt Hatchery (California). Usually the chicks are shipped out after they hatched and they can live without water for a couple of days (depending on where u get them from). Once u got them then take each of the little chick and gently dip his or her beak in the water. But u have to be prepared for even ordering the chicks! u will need a heating lamp for the little ones because they dont have their mama to wrap her loving wings around them. but u have to have a place for them and it has to be nice, warm, and dry. it also depends on what season it is in. The heating source is one of the most important things to do for the little ones! in the book called [i]"Living with Chickens"[/i] it states this:[/size] [i]"[/i][size="3"][i]The air temperature around the chick as it skitters from feed to water and back should be about 95 degrees Fahrenheit for the first week of its life and should decrease by 5 degrees per week after that until it reaches 70 degrees. At that point, chicks are able to keep themselves warm, unless it is particularly cold outside. The easiest way to provide warmth is with a lightbulb. If you have one or two dozen birds and the weather is relatively mild, a regular 60- or 100-watt lightbulb will do. Start with the bulb about 18 inches off the floor, and raise it about 3 inches per week in order to steadily lower the air temperature around the birds. Use a procelain socket because a plastic socket will melt after enduring even a 60-watt household bulb hunb upside down and left on most of the day.You will also need to put the bulb in a reflector-one with protective wire over the front of it to reduce the chances of an accident that could break the bulb and, in the worst case, cause a fire...."

[/i][/size][size="2"]i suggest that u should get the book [i]Living with Chickens[/i] and also the magazine called [i]Backyard Poultry[/i] because they have better answers than i could give and acourse i have them both!
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[Ed Normile]

I have only ever ordered chicken through the KFC drive through window, and its always warm!

ed

[Lil'Monster]

[b]"I have only ever ordered chicken through the KFC drive through window, and its always warm!"

[/b]ha.ha.ha

we arent talkin about kfc we are talkin about raising chickens and other farm animals here. so if u have nothing better to do then i would advised u stop insulting my chickens!
but guess what? i raised chickens for laying eggs and breeding not for the meat! but during the summer i raised meat chickens and one year at a 4h competition i won Grand Champion for my meat chickens and i sold them at the aucton for $450! its no typo by the way! so there!