Posts by EeyoreD

Thanks, all, for the info! Quote: Originally Posted by bigtrout  All ducks herd easily...after they learn the routine...   My scovies make a liar out of you.  They just fly off a little ways and laugh...

Are they good foragers?   And I bet duck eggs would be great in baking.  I've used goose eggs before with awesome results but I bet duck eggs will be easier because not all recipes call for eggs in multiples of 3 :)...

Oh awesome!  That settles it, I'm totally getting laying ducks.  Now, what kind...   I like the look of the runners, but I've heard they just lay wherever they feel like it and since my birds are pastured with no...

Ok so this is my first spring with ducks and while I have my two sitting on about 11 eggs each I have an abundance of eggs.  After I waited for broodiness and stuffed them under the ducks I cooked some up (hard...

Yeah she really is a good dog.  I think it helps that her best friend is the cat - they run around the house full speed, the cat's head inside the dogs mouth.  If the dog stops too soon, the cat goads her into playing some...

I'd heard that geese can be "guard geese" but that's really more just alerting everyone to danger or the mailman... (they seem to really have no mechanism to determine "danger" from "different")   BUT!  I was a bit...

Miss Lydia, - the brewers yeast helps with the lameness?     Quote: Originally Posted by Winisk  Grab it by the base of the wings and pin it to the ground.  Grab the head and tuck it under...

Ah ok so is vent sexing in geese the same as I saw when I googled for vent sexing chickens?

I purchased 7 American Buff geese this spring.  Sadly, though they did go broody, somehow they destroyed/ate/otherwise lost their eggs so no new babies.   That said, I was told the geese were a breeding group but one of...

Is there a thread for bird sitting somewhere that I can't find?