Forum: Breeding, Raising, Feeding and Caring for Animals

I have heard that worms can eat rabbit droppings. Well, I was wondering if we could feed some used gerbil bedding to composting worms? The bedding is...

We have a young pullet in our brood of 10 chooks. She has something wrong with her head or one eye, which is making her walk around with her head...

About 3 months ago we purchased 5 chooks (at point of lay) and they are producing eggs (although they have cooled off at the moment). We also...

I'm wondering if white fluffy mould appearing on the surface of my worm farm is normal or not. Since putting the last food scraps into the farm it is...

see my other thread in nurturing growing plants. I've recently discovered that i have an abundant source of duck food in my soil. The cane beetle...

Hi, How do you deter snakes from your properties? Any ideas please? I have two young children so I am very concerned about venomous snakes. ...

After attending a recent sustainability workshop in our area (Nimbin Bioregion), it came to light that various small scale organic farmers would like...

Hi, I'm wanting to purchase (not all at one time nessasarily) some chickens. I would ideally like to get a rooster and incubator also. I want to...

I can't find any worms for our worm farm... Well there are plenty in the ground but i understand that the red ones are better for composting. Nobody...

would anyone bother seeding a deep litter slow composting system, in a chook shed, with red worms as in a worm farm? Or just let the local fellas...

Hi Everyone, I enjoy watching the documentaries on this website but I came across this one that talks about Monsanto patenting pig DNA. This...

I've recently taken in a baby lamb, her mom didn't accept her, so i have been bottle feeding her. She is about twenty days old now and has started to...

Both add strategies to add warmth, and, thus, reduce the food needs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCyRNA4p3Xc

Hi, I'm looking to do the sums on raising broiler chooks. Joel Salatin says "A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20...

Hi, I live on about an acre. I'm considering building a duck pond, within my small orchard, which is where my chooks, geese and ducks forage during...

hi all! I have recently acquired a silkie and two frizzle pekins and they have all settled in really well. The frizzle's feathering is not what I...

Hi folks, wondering if anyone out there is utilizing a chicken / rabbit / worm system at current that can shed some light on possible design...

im about to trial an organic drench and will also trial artemesia tea has anyone else used any organic potions on sheep sucessfully? wikipaedea ...

I have some land in the Peruvian Amazon and I have been told that one of the biggest predatory threats to chickens there are boa constrictors. Not...