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To: Eric in the Ozarks; hearthwench
We've been raising chickens for 4 years now and our insect load has diminished. We no longer have scorpions or many other insect pests invading the house. We also benefit from around a dozen eggs per day.
On the flip side, we free range our birds, so we tend to have a loss from predators, and the birds eat everything. If it's young and green, it's gone. If it's a leafy vegetable, it's gone.
Our cats don't bother the birds. In fact, the cats are afraid of the chickens.
86 posted on 02/28/2014 6:23:53 PM PST by Sarajevo (Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: "Does this taste funny to you?")
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To: Sarajevo
We have one or two red foxes here. They are small, about 20-25 pounds.
I see them trotting through in the morning.
90 posted on 02/28/2014 6:38:07 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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