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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

What's thr rule on chicken killing dogs?  I guess it would be hard to do what 
some would do even if you could legally.  but, it is your food-source?

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--- On Thu, 12/18/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Hatching Round 2
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 7:45 PM
> bobf wrote:
> > I guess I thought you limited them to a couple of
> rounds of hatching
> > per year. 
> 
> I only have one, somewhat broody hen at present.  She only
> wants to go 
> broody in the Spring.  She's not as good as Rob's
> Maran<g>.  That is why 
> I have borrowed an incubator, and since it is not mine and
> I have to 
> return it in a few months, I am hatching anything I can get
> my hands on.
> 
> 
> 
>   Couldn't you just leave (once you have enough hens
> and
> > roosters) them to do their adult business on their own
> and raise and
> > hatch their chicks, on their own, and soon you would
> have a hundred
> > chickens running all over the place and you just grab
> several per
> > week to clean and eat?
> 
> To do that, I would have to allow 100% free ranging, which
> I used to do, 
> but can no longer do due to multiple 'neighborhood'
> dogs that are 
> chicken killers.
> But yeah, that is the best of all options, right there,,,it
> is just hard 
> to do here and now.
> 
> 
> 
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