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My pair of Tolouse geese inhale everything green they can find, and we've had so much rain this summer that my yard and house are overgrown. Can I harvest weeds and give them to the geese? The main culprits are as follows: Virginia creeper ivy Thistles Ragweed Wild lettuce (Lactuca scariola)...

Vet says $65 for the visit, $100 for an X-ray, and that's before anything else. I think I will just keep an eye on her... Vets around here are robber barons, I swear.

It's a gold earring. 1 /4 carat diamond stud. I guess she has expensive tastes. The point on the stud is not sharp, but she did eat the whole earring (not including the back), so that is a long post sticking out. (About a half an inch is just gold post, I would estimate.) I will call the vet...

My 3 week old toulouse gosling just pulled my stud earring out of my ear and ate it. I'm concerned about the post hurting her. Do I need to take her to the vet? What should I watch for?

I have a hen brooding 7 eggs in a dog igloo, in the same run as my tom. He can't get to her because he's too big to fit in the igloo, so she is safe. What about when the poults hatch? Will I need to separate the tom to keep him from injuring them? Will the hen become anxious if she is in the run...

I think it might be what I call the "bink" sound. They do that when they're startled or unsure about something. Even the adults will "bink" if they're faced with something new.

Okay, so, it's a long shot, but does anyone know where Crested Cream Legbars and Black Copper Marans fit on the slow/fast feathering chart? I have both a BCM over CCL and vice versa, and I know only the former is sex-linked, so I'm wondering about the feasibility of feather sexing.

I apologize if this has been addressed before, as I did not have time to read all 250+ pages of this thread. I have an autosexing breed, Crested Cream Legbar. How well does that autosexing carry over in hybrid chicks? I have heard varying things. I have Crested Cream Legbar hens in with a...

Okay, I didn't think geese and chickens could be raised together. As for free-ranging, I think my hens can outrun a goose pretty well. My roosters, well, they are big boys but if they were sufficiently motivated they could get out of the way of a gander freight train. I think I'm not being...

I always heard not to raise chicks with waterfowl... I will have some 2-week-old chicks at the time I order my geese--should I put a chick or two in the brooder with them to get them accustomed to chickens? Can chickens outrun geese if they do get aggressive? They will be free-ranged with the...

Hi there! I originally posted in the "Geese Questions" thread, but nobody has responded for 3 days so I'm posting a new thread. I've raised geese before when I was a kid--we had a pair of Embdens, and they were ever so helpful that I had to distract the geese while my dad worked on the car so...

Hi there! I've raised geese before when I was a kid--we had a pair of Embdens, and they were ever so helpful that I had to distract the geese while my dad worked on the car so they wouldn't nibble his feet and steal his tools while he was under 2 tons of metal. Our neighbor's Weimeraner got...

Thank you for the responses! I think the amount of milk in their feed is my biggest concern. My girls will eat until their crops about bust through their feathers, especially when I let them free range. I probably will have to play with the amount and how I add it. Looks like having them just...

Hi all! I have 2 dairy goats who are due in May, and I know I'll have more milk that what I will need. How can I incorporate milk and milk products (whey, excess curd, leftover yogurt, etc) into the diets of my poultry? I have chickens, turkeys, quail, and guineas. Should I let the milk...

I had a reverse trio (2 males and 1 female) of guineas, but I just had to put down the female due to an injury. I think a raccoon reached through the wire of the pen and tore her up. There are traps out now for the $%#@ coons and the wire is getting overlaid with hardware cloth. I have my...

The flash on my camera washed out the color of the first chick. It does have a noticeably red comb, much redder than anyone else's. They're only about 5 weeks old--the wattles aren't very large at all at that age.

I think I have most of my chicks sexed properly, but I wanted to ask the Marans experts on these 5. I see cockerel, pullet, pullet, pullet, cockerel. What do you all think?

I asked a question about this chick a few weeks back, but never got a response. Here is the same chick, a month later. Is it a pullet, or is it a cockerel? The color is right in between my other pullets and cockerels, it has a hen tail, and it has a cockerel comb. Help please!

I just hatched out 10 CCL chicks, and 9 of them were really clear on sex right out of the egg. I have a question about one chick, though, so I wanted to ask the experts. I took a few pictures of the chick in question with my lightest marked pullet and my darkest marked cockerel. In the first...

I got a batch of BCM eggs (solid 6s, some 7s) from a local breeder and they're currently hatching in my incubator. Quick question for the experts--can Marans be feather sexed as day-old-chicks?