Reply #53: Correction

[Cherchez la Femme]

"...and just a few days before they escaped a huge aggressive hawk due to their incredible aerial maneuvers!"

I mean 'just a few days AFTER they escaped...hawk' I probably meant to write "...and just a few days before, they escaped a huge aggressive hawk due to their incredible aerial maneuvers!" and missed the comma. That comma changes the whole sentence, obviously.

My grammar has always sucked, sorry. Is probably why I'm a good poet, but a terrible article/post writer.


It's been a couple years since I did a lot of reading on these Chicken Tractors. Obviously they've caught on and there's been a lot of variations on the theme.
I still like the dog run, one good reason is you can find lots of used runs cheap -- good recycling!
I saw one just this past weekend at a lawn sale for $25! :(
The design on the dog run Chicken Tractor also had the door directly in the center with a removable track/walkway (term?), easily and conveniently hung on hooks on the chain-link during non-use/nighttime, so predators can't get to them at all; unlike the first one (the wood one) I edited in which has a permanent 'walkway' built on, giving the door easy access to any creature looking for a chicken dinner
--other than you, of course :)
Not me, I'm an ovo-lacto vegetarian; damn me! :D
Anyhow, if a fowl gives their life to me improving my soil and providing me with eggs, well IMO she has the right to grow old even at the end of her productive (heh) life, be eggless and die of natural causes.

Goddess help me if I ever have a dairy farm though... half the cows would be neutered males as I couldn't use or sell the male calves for all they're "commercially" worth: meat.
Heck, I would probably "liberate" all those poor chained up veal calves... but that's illegal. Honestly, I guess if I had the money and land to keep them I'd just buy them.
Sorry, way OT.

Regarding eggs:
I know people eat goose eggs; they're great guard animals but big and very loud.
There are certain ducks also who are fantastic free-ranging in a growing garden, safe around growing vegetables and especially talented regarding gobbling up slugs and other bugs which were the bane of my garden this past year. I wonder if ducks can be cooped with chickens? Can any breed of duck and chicken be cooped together, anyhow? Aren't duck eggs just as nutritious as chicken eggs? I don't even know if they taste the same, even similar, though.
I don't see why they can't be cooped together, but who knows? Cattle and horses don't pasture together well at all, the reasons are beyond me, but there it is... Mother Nature has her reasons, whatever they may be.

I sure wish my town smartens up in the future and allows fowl, and quickly.