dbd33

As best I recall, dogs, cats, aquarium fish, chickens, horses, and a donkey. I'm certain that I'm not done with chickens or horses. Where you can keep them though depends, as mentioned repeatedly, on local laws. The site of the donkey keeping was far enough into the country that anything vaguely "agricultural" was a grandfathered use of the land. There's some movement toward making chickens acceptable in cities, I believe North York allows a single lonely chicken, but I can't see horses coming to urban Canada anywhen soon.

Kydney_Stone

Out of all the dbd menagerie the chickens interest me only. The next problem I have (I don't seem to have thought this through very well) is where do I get 2 or more live chickens? I can hardly breeze into Loblaws and ask if they have any live chickens in the back, wink wink nudge nudge. Is there a chickens r us or can you get them from any of the chains of pet shops here?

mandymoochops

Bet you'd find some on Kijiji.

Only a year or so ago Dbd was donating some for the cause

dbd33

Typically one order chicks from the feedmill, they keep all the common breeds, RIRs, ISA Browns and so on. TSC also take orders for chicks. Generally they're a buck or a buck fifty and 90% survive. If you want less routine chickens then there's a breeder near IainK, I went there for the chicks (fifteen or twenty exotic types) and when it came time to dispose of the hens, people came from a radius of fifty miles to pay me $20 a chicken.

dbd33

Oh the irony in that phrasing.

Novocastrian

I've tried to resist doing this, but if you're going to use flowery prose, please make an effort to get your grammar right.

"Out of the dbd menagerie, only the chickens interest me"

Kydney_Stone

Thank you for pointing out a very obvious error.

helcat12

Try craigslist as well.
There were some llamas for sale on there recently for $50 each. That's got to be a bargain, surely?

Kydney_Stone

Good information thanks, I'm going to be looking into this today. As always what you think may be a simple task turns complicated in no time.

Kydney_Stone

LLamas... hmmm...
Do they lay eggs?

dbd33

I'd stop short of calling buying chicks "complicated" but you've missed the boat for this year, they were on sale about a month ago.

helcat12

No, but they are going cheap!

Sorry about that, it just slipped out!
Anyway, you can rent them out for Llama trekking, which would make money and spin wool from their coats to make hippy ponchos.
It would also be much more interesting at parties to say you are a "Llama farmer" than just a plain old chicken farmer.

dbd33

I shot my load here:

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=633400