Recent content by Wynette

Yes, please try to find a way to give them a bit more security at night. I'm sure you're doing the very best you can, but remember that "domestic" livestock do not have the natural instincts that their wild relations do, so they are even more vulnerable. Best of luck with getting them in! Oh...

Please do not just "let them go" if you don't want them. They can easily get wounded from a predator and suffer an extremely long, painful death. That's not fair to the bird.

I had to "train" my ducks to use their coop; first, I put them in there, physically. Once they were settled down, I took a dish of their favorite treat, Cheerios. I did that for 2-3 nights in a row, rattling the bowl so they could hear the noise. After a few days, all I needed to do was...

Sounds like it was a fantastic show, as always. A good friend bred a beautiful RIR bantam, and gifted it to a boy he mentors; the bird placed reserve show champion! So proud of my good friend, Fred. :)

Both of those are super helpful - love them!

I need to get cockerels weighed myself. I have I think 5 or 6 that I held over in my final cull; I will keep the best 2 or 3, depending how they get through my last scrutinization of them (is that a word? Must not be, it's red underlined!). I'm just not seeing the length of topline that I...

Marcia, there is some problem with my website URL. I need to get it figured out! I wouldn't be ready to sell hatching eggs or stock just yet...I bred in Columbian to my flock and I'm not yet back to SPR phenotype. A good friend of mine (Scott Brazinski) breeds Columbians with excellent size...

Hello, all - I have been breeding SPR for a good many years and have found them most challenging to breed. They are most definitely not for the faint of heart, or for those wishing to "make their mark" on the poultry world. They have moved so far from the SOP it will take many years to get...

Gosh, I wish I could help. I k ow much more about chicken genetics than I do about ducks. Sorry! She's awful cute, though!! I wonder what khaki Campbells look like as ducklings? That might be a good place to start.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I plan on attending. Thanks, Candy, for starting the thread. Um............talent contest?

Folks, very sorry for the late notice, but I will be unable to make C-S this year. I'll very much miss catching up with good chicken friends, and will definitely miss the talk by the MSU person - thanks, Mary, for working so diligently to get that scheduled! If anyone records it, I would love...

I'm way, WAY behind in hatching this year - haven't even hatched off what I need for myself yet, so I won't have anything this year. Very sorry! (If you'd like to meet up late summer, shoot me a PM - I should have some stock later.)

Hi, Laura - I never did find out why that hen laid eggs like that on occasion; I've had two Marans that laid like that in the past, I never used them for breeding purposes, and so I think I have culled that issue out of my flock, as I haven't had any more birds lay like that. Strange, huh...

A tail that long would not be to the standard for the breed.

She doe snot sell hatching eggs to my knowledge; the woman pictured above is a friend of mine, and I am the breeder of the birds pictured above. Thanks for alerting me - I'll go try to find it.