Re: 3 A Day - Dairy products

In article <raneemdonot-6775F9.10270906032006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ranee Mueller <raneemdonot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article
<cjfullerSPAMORAMA-8AB3EB.09295904032006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Cindy Fuller <cjfullerSPAMORAMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

People didn't explore much out here at the cook-in, but we have about
five acres under the runway that is open for us to use, not in the
hangar space, or the taxiway, etc. We'd have to build a barn, and put
in good fencing, but there is plenty of pasture out here. Actually,
Rich has been trying to think of a way of pitching sheep for cutting the
grass for a few years. SFO does that (or did at one point), and it
would cut down on the time he and his assistant had to spend doing
things like that, as well as allowing the runway to stay open while it
is done. :)

I think Seattle Parks & Recreation has rented goats to take care of some
of the invasive plants on hillsides and the like. They tread more
lightly than humans, plus you don't have to worry as much about worker
injuries with goats. It can be pitched as environmentally friendly
(provided nobody had to truck the sheep or goats up and down the hill
every week).

We have fencing put in trenches two feet under the ground, chicken
wire all around the pen and netting over the top, as well as a coop with
a floor, rather than on the ground. Rich has been trapping and
poisoning rats for the past two months, and we haven't seen one in over
four weeks. There are coyote, racoons, eagles, hawks, owls, you name
it. We're securing the chicken compound as best we can, and locking
them in the coop at night.

My grandfather converted his cow barn into a large chicken coop later on
in his life. Several barn cats kept down the rodent population. They
didn't bother the chickens, probably because they had other sources of
food.


Cindy, former farm girl and animal science major

I should interrogate you. :)

Only if you need help on how to give a cat a pill or subcutaneous
fluids. I haven't done much with raising poultry since grad school--and
they were male broiler chicks, not laying hens.

Cindy

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