Our chickens free range but need feed in the winter. The turkeys work much harder, they are up before sunrise catching cold bugs in the grass. Two turkey hens raised 19 poults this year, we hatched more in the incubators. It’s nice having turkey at times besides Thanksgiving.
Wait until they start writing articles about backyard hog raising. We have those, too, along with rabbits.
I’m looking to raise angora rabbits for the fur. I have a pole barn with room for some hutches.
I know a guy in town (kind of a kook, actually) who raises prize-winning rabbits. He has a small, unattached garage and it’s lined with cages, top to bottom, on three sides with large cages.
It’s supposed to be a ‘secret’ and the rabbits seem happy and healthy enough, but The Town ain’t happy with him, LOL!
That pig kept George Clooney happy all these years. I hear he's still pretty broken up about the death of his pot-bellied pig.