Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

Killerbunny (ironic name when on this topic) I have the greyhound and had a sweet Scottie till last June when she passed suddenly from complications with a surgery. But those two, the Grey and Scottie were lethal. The Grey would run them down fast and kind of swipe their feet out from under them...t...

Love the look of these guys, Happy! Fuzzy legs!!!

Hey ya Yorkie! We just left York Region last year for Prince Edward County...more or less city folk, though I was a large animal vet tech like a hundred years ago, but chickens are a new thing for me. We are hoping to accumulate a flock this summer as we progress on our new house build. Long term I ...

As a newbie I love this form, but I get lost often. There is so much information here! It is easy to get overwhelmed. I go back and read a lot of the old stuff, at times I respond, but there is not much dialogue...nor do I expect it because after all it is old news to the regulars. It is clear many ...

gosh I hope it is like the old original HARROWSMITH, I was able to buy a bunch of old ones years ago from the local library when there were having a clean out. The solid information found in it's pages is still relevant today. However even if the the new publication misses the mark and appeals to th...

i listen to pastured poultry talk... since chicken are not my field and i am learning i can't say if it is good or not...but i get a great deal out of it. :running-chicken:


http://pasturedpoultrytalk.com/

Cheers! and welcome. Ex pat Brit here too...but from northern Scotland, so a wee bit more used to the cold than you would have been! I am new to eastern Ontario as well,(though been in Canada a good while now) but west of Kingston. Found PTO to be a wealth of great info...and a wealth of great folks...

What do you do on a rainy snowy awful Sunday afternoon? Go back a read PTO threads from months before you joined!!! OF Course! Well what an interesting thread and good read this was! It is disturbing! Yet I am so glad to read that so many others are raising their own food for the very reasons I find...

that is so great...I would be so excited too! Congrats on a great find!

For those who have sheep or goats, do you have a preference between guardian animals? Which seems most effective in keeping predictors at bay? Donkey? Llama? Guardian Dog?