I’m looking for suggestions on fowls.

We have a small flock of chickens, about 10, but we have another run with the capacity for about 20 more birds. We also have a small flock of ducks, a single muscowy lady and some indian runners. The ducks are our counter slug squad, but also provide us with some prime eggs as well.

Anyway, we’re considering adding some quail as a pesticide in our ant infested greenhouse, and a few geese as lawnmowers for a very soggy part of the garden.

Besides the utility of the birds, we do expect to eat their eggs and come autumn fill up the freezer.

I think we’ve diversified quite a bit, but what do you think? Something that we should consider keeping as well?

Edit: removed the artifacts of my initial pre-posting edits

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    10 days ago

    I’ve tried talking the missus into guineafowl, to combat rats, but that’s not happening, they’re too scary looking.

    We’ve considered turkeys, but I seem to remember that Mike Rowe, on Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs” had to “milk” the rooster and while I’m down with a lot of stuff, I’m not giving a bird a reach-around!