Just the usual dogs, cats, fish or other pets (310 votes, 74%) | |
We raise chickens (for eggs or meat?) (23 votes, 5%) | |
We raise rabbits (5 votes, 1%) | |
We raise goats (4 votes, 0%) | |
We raise ducks and/or geese (1 votes, 0%) | |
We raise emus or ostriches (0 votes, 0%) | |
We raise worms or beneficial insects or butterfly larvae (12 votes, 2%) | |
We have a fish farm (0 votes, 0%) | |
We raise large livestock (pigs, sheep, cattle, horses) (18 votes, 4%) | |
No animals here! (41 votes, 9%) | |
Raising animals?
We have a dairy farm here, and as long as they stay on the other side on the flower garden fences, we al get along just fine!!!
I notice children isn't on the list, that has to be an oversight....
13 Shar-Pei: Tuffy, Blondie, Susan Hayward (she's a red-head), Goldie, Vin Deisel (he's "Pitch Black"), Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Chiquita Banana and 6 new wrinklies (4 black, 2 fawn) by Tuffy and Blondie (who are the parents of all the rest.)
30 banty hens and 35 standard hens for eggs, 1 toulouse goose and lots of wildlife... moose, 2 brown bears 2 nites ago (scary), bald eagle, red squirrel, ermine (white in winter, brown and called weasel in summer), voles, mice, mink, land otter, coyote, fox sparrow (who demonize my plant labels by pulling them out and confusing the variety names), pine grosbeak, red crossbill, belted kingfisher (I live on Salmon Creek), common merganser, green-wing teal, shoveler teal, widgeon, mallard, great blue heron, yellow legs, merlin, kestrel, red-tailed hawk, marsh hawk, red-bellied sapsucker (caused a sensation this spring being so far north), red-necked grebe, pintail, bufflehead, goldeneye (common & Barrow's), rock ptarmigan, spruce grouse, glaucous-winged gull, great gray owl, boreal owl, great horned owl, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, northern shrike, steller's jay, black-billed magpie, crows, ravens, black-capped chickadee, chestnut-backed chickadee, boreal chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, dipper, robin, varied thrush, bohemian waxwing, golden crowned sparrow, dark-eyed junco, redpoll, pine siskins (hundreds!) and rufous hummingbirds. And a pig dipped out of the creek while dipping red salmon and hooligan. Found out she was an escapee from the feed store a half mile away.
I would vote more if multiple choices were an option, too.
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