Were they very small chickens? Most bantam breeds are very quiet.
1 Like
They looked like the same size as usual to me.
Chickens need very little supplemental feed if you graze them and grow a few crops for them. Zero inputs no, but for me by far the most return on the amount of effort. Sunflower seeds are a great replacement for corn in my experience, but I grow both for feed and as a high carbon addition to their coop. Just gotta stack those functions!
2 Likes
Sorry. Posted into the wrong thread.
Fish? There’s people out there raising trout in rainwater collection tanks in greenhouses in the far north. Challenge would be evaporation in a hot dry summer, but presumably there’s some kind of cover that you could use to minimize that?
Otherwise probably guinea fowl or rabbits. Ducks if you can figure out some kind of pond situation for them - if you do it just right it could help manage seasonal drought.
I think fish need some kind of aeration in the water, don’t they? So it would probably take technology if it’s not naturally running (like a river would be). Or can aquatic plants in the pool be enough to accomplish that?
I’m pretty sure aquatic plants and animals aren’t a good idea for me. The climate is just way too hot and dry here. It’s not that I couldn’t do it in a wading pool; it’s just that it feels ecologically irresponsible to waste that much water to evaporation every year. That’s also the reason why I think I should avoid ducks.
Definitely a good idea for someone in a wet climate to look into, however.
I don’t think I’ve seen guinea fowl suggested before. What can you tell me about them?
Masha Zager talked about them up above, post 36.
Ah, thank you! It’s been a year and a half since she posted that, so I’d completely forgotten. 