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Thank You! I am sorry to hear of your hen, I will think of you often today and give thanks that I am not at that crossroad. I am going to go with a encloser for my two geese, we enjoy them immensely, and they give us great fertilizer as well as wonderful eggs!

I hope that I didn't offend anyone here, I have to say that we are all here for a purpose. As our animals are; everyone has a role. Our dogs watched over the geese, the geese watch the ducks, the poultry in turn feed us, they work for us, eating bugs, slugs, they give us amusement. We in turn...

Thank you all for your input, was out this morning doing chores. While working in the chicken yard, one of the geese got hold of one of my chickens tail feathers. There was a lot of squawking and shrieking, my roo, whose name is "Roo" (hes a beautiful French Copper Maran) got all puffed up and...

We live on 5 acres, and its fenced. The ducklings have their own pen, completely fence top bottom. etc. same as the chickens.Everyone is free range, the chickens and the duckling go into their pens at night. Weena (our Rouen) and the the two geese refuse to be penned.The geese are wonderful...

I live in the Pacific Northwest, I have a two Chinese Weeder geese. A girlfriend bought them from a local farm store, turns out they were both females. They are almost a year old. We are actually thinking of butchering them, is that too old for eating? The reason we are considering this is I...

We lost the chick today. It looked like she just gave up. The other one is doing fine as are the Partridge Rock chicks

DeannaMari, I live in the Pacific Northwest too, closer to the Canadian border actually. I have 2 weeder geese, khaki campbells & rouens. My birds are free range and they do great in the winter. I put out fresh straw out & they have a coop when they want to get out of the weather. They are hardy...

I just put in a new heat lamp, its pretty warm, & they are not huddled under it but a ways away from it. I was actually thinking that it may be too warm. They have pine shavings, and I clean the brooder twice a day. I went to the farm store today and got some pro-botic powder for their water. I...

I know this post was from 2010, so I may not get an answer, but hopefully someone will hear my call of duress! I picked up 2 Bourbon turkey chicks a week ago. They are here in the house in a brooder. Until this morning, we noticed that one just lays there, seems to be breathing hard. After...

Partridge Plymouth Chicks