LadyRae
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My husband and oldest daughter spent a lot of time building a veritable fortress because we live in a rural area in coyotes are definitely an issue around here....Thank you for your thoughts @LadyRae ....I, too, eat less protein than I used to but do love eggs! My grandparents used to have a chicken farm in Texas......just a scratched out poor piece o land but that's basically how they subsisted...eggs, eating chickens and big veggie garden. I had always had a very large veggie garden in my adult life until the gophers and squirrels drove me out. It's war now. I used to want egg laying hens but here in my rural canyon they would take a huge amount of work in building a shelter to protect them from the coyotes, watching out for them all the time, and also I don't want to be chained down at this time in my life... want to enjoy my free time with my husband, So I guess no chickens for me. Enjoy yours!!
I don't eat oysters but do pluck mussels from the rocks in the ocean at low tide... do you happen to know if mussels have similar nutrients as oysters?
We also travel a lot and I have four kids at home and we are gone boating every weekend in the summer. So we have a large gravity water and crumble feeder and so we can leave our chickens for several days at a time... It seems like a lot of work when you were at the front of it but it actually isn't difficult or time-consuming....