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Name of bird: Zeus Age: 2 years old Breed: Sebastopol Zeus preening himself in the front with his lady Athena Zeus spreading his wings after a frosty morning dip. A frosty morning bath.

So I am wondering then what to do with drakes that you have had for a couple of years or year in your breeding program? Are they going to taste awful? What can be done with them? Are restaurants then only buying ducks that are several months old? Thanks for any help. I have personally never ate...

I am looking for a good source of information for Japanese bantams such as size and breed characteristics does anyone have any help for me? Thank you.

Ok so now I get how to post pics so I am going to post a couple of my geese. She lost her eggs. Predator of some sort came in and I knew I should have gotten up at 3 am but I didn't. I feel just terrible. All but 4 eggs gone and they were cracked. Checked them and yes they were fertile. So here...

Yay it worked. I am going to add some more. Hope you like them. Let me know colors if anyone can. Thanks so much. I am not sure of her coloring any ideas. I know chocolate but any other? This is my drake Baloo. I love him to death he has given me such beautiful babies. And he is an...

I am trying to upload a pic of some of my muscovies but I don't know if this is going to work. This is one of my favorite hens. I now also have a very beautiful drake that I would like to post a pic of. I hope this works.

Ok so I am going to try and post some pics on here of the geese. Wish me luck.

I have both the kiddie pool and also the blue plastic barrels cut in half the long way. They really like both but prefer the barrels. Also in western wisconsin in the winter these are nice because they don't crack. We can get those barrels around here for like 5 bucks. Good luck.

All four of my geese are always together. Always they never ever leave each other's sides. So when I coudn't find her I got worried. She has been very diligent at sitting on her nest and the reason that I peeked is because she tried taking over one of my scovie's nests and thought maybe she had...

Well I guess I didn't think that they were even old enough and thought they would only lay in the spring. See total newby. Well I will watch and wait. Goose down thing. HA never thought of that. I really do like these geese the one male is kind of snarky but we are working on that. Thanks so...

So we are new to geese. Bought 4- 4day old african gray geese on March 27th. We have two males and two females. Should have bought a lottery ticket that day too as I am never that lucky. Anywho. My husband tells me two days ago that we have a goose sitting on eggs. I told him he was crazy. So...

Well I am not new to this forum I have been a lurker for a long time and have learned so much but have never been on this part of the forum. I am so excited to have found it. I live in Western, WI back on dirt roads in the middle of no where with my husband and three children a daughter and two...

I have been doing much research and looking into different goose breeds and I have African Greys right now and I am very interested in the Sebastopol geese. Is there anyone in Wisconsin that raises them or knows of where I could get some. Any information would be great. Thank you so much.

So at what age does this knob start to grow to its size that is it going to be these babies are an end of of March hatch should I be seeing differences now? Thanks

Ok so I have one that has a quite a bit larger bump on its head does this mean anything. I will try and get pictures. I do know that the one seems to be more dainty and refined and that is the one we took as the girl goose. She is more stand offish and reserved. one does make a much louder honk...