Uh, unfortunately both the ducks and even the chickens will eat the tadpoles and perhaps even the frogs unless you fence them off good. Perhaps geese? lol... or quail?

For your enjoyment and my bragging.

The lighter breeds of ducks like Campbells and Runners don't swim very much and are very good walkers. Same goes for Muscovies. They need water to bath in and clear muck off of their bills which can clog their nostrils.

Actually you have to be careful with muscovies because they are not as water proof as real ducks and I lost one to a livestock water trough. They need an exit ramp.

Buckeyes are huge, friendly, great foragers, red feathered and yellow skinned. they rock. i love them. they come in bantam too. i dont mind smaller eggs, smaller chickens are closer to wild, better foragers, better mothers and eat less feed per egg lb. they have larger yolk for the size of the eggs.                                  however i always try to turn folks away from chickens to ducks. ducks law more, larger, better tasting, more nutritious eggs. they are better foragers and they taste better. they are more weather resistant and more disease resistant than chickens.                                      that said, they are quite loud. my favorite birds are muscovies. they lay less eggs, but both them and their eggs taste the best and they are the best mothers and foragers of all domestic birds. they are almost silent too. and extremely friendly. they were not even provoked or frightened when i caught and eviserated one of their own right in front of them. which made me wonder a bit. would they mind if i did them all in one by one?

You know i was thinking. perhaps i just haven't been properly engaged with the right woman, and this theoretical right woman would surpass the benefits of the cow. however two thousand pounds of cheddar is not an easy score to beat.

Fertile nature. Green grass, clean water, happy cows, ripe fruit, beautiful women.

I'm hoping these peeps are going to show up from NM. Otherwise I will likely sell off the whole herd. I need a break, I am burnt out and need to experience some more things and perhaps find the right place for me. I guess I didn't think I would but now I feel like I'm ready to go on walkabout.

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Start up again better in a better place next spring perhaps? Or these peeps from NM actually show up! Better give them a call and see what they say.

Did you ask on here? Jessica has worked a lot on farms I think, maybe she will team up with you?

She is committed to the PNW, an area that is entirely foreign and very far away to me. I wouldn't be opposed to farming there if I could find a good situation. I am told I would get along with Californians.

Perhaps part of my problem is that I got it in my head that I had to have a business before I ever got good at growing my own food.

I have the creeping feeling of failure. I should not feel this way because I am not and I have accomplished a lot. However I keep running into walls I cannot penetrate. The more walls I run into the more I slow down and the more walls I encounter and the more they prove impenetrable.

I am a very talented and intelligent individual but I lack the organizational skills and support to be successful in the heavily flawed situations I have been in.

I don't want to farm by myself anymore. I think if I had the right setup in the right place I could do it, but I don't even want to. I never wanted to do it all by myself.

I have had a great journey and learned tons but I am distressed and sick from stress and cannot think clearly. I am waiting on the butcher to call me back so that I can start eating good beef. I thought I was eating halfway decent but I recently had a virtual health collapse after 7 years of doing really well.

I have an understanding and experience of ecological production and economics of virtually any and all species of livestock, I am ready to be a successful grass farmer and have a very profitable business, but I can't make it go. I am almost out of emotional energy.

Now I'm considering whether to sell all or most of my animals. If I sell all of them I will probably travel for some time.

Leaning at moving back to where I am from in NY as that is probably a much better environment for me than the middle of nowhere in Northern Michigan (which is awesome, just not by my lonesome).

I hope if I move back to NY to be selling at a NYC farmers market and having a NYC grass fed buying club by next spring.

Very few people responded to my adds I posted. I don't understand why.

I'm done learning the hard way, success soon please. 

How can I e-mail Aajonus? Facilitator@WeWant2Live.com is that the best way?

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Are you eating organic or non-organic. I was told many years ago to avoid all non-organic fresh fruit as they are sprayed with I think ethyline gas or something to ripen them, which causes them to produce the same toxin found in latex but at much higher levels. Quit eating non-organic tomatoes, bananas, strawberries and others and my acne cleared up! It was also believed to have been a possible cause of a tumor that I had for 9 years.