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They're here!! Everybody's alert and chowing down! Looks like all 10 ordered made it fine and Metzers was kind enough to include 2 more for an even dozen - thanks folks!! After a few minutes under the light to warm up, I have never seen such an active bunch. What fun to watch!

Ducklings should arrive tomorrow - yipee!! I'm going to do the towel thing to start in the brooder box to help prevent spraddle leg as suggested. When would it be safe to switch to newspaper - a few days or a week or ...? I'm using shavings in the kiddie pool brooder which I'll probably...

Well, I had this set up in the laundry last week, but most everybody knows what happened with the Metzer/Meyer shipment, so I transferred it to the basement where we'll move them after a day or so. I'm hoping my water set-up will help with the mess - guess we'll see. I'm gonna put them in a...

Just got a call from Metzer on my shipment. Turns out they were shipping for Meyer and my order fell to the same fate as the others on the truck. They are getting a lot of heated calls folks, so please don't flame them, too, this is a situation completely beyond their control. I didn't think...

Got the call from our P.O. a little while ago and all my ducklings arrived dead. He was concerned when he didn't hear any sound and was going to give them some water if needed. How could this happen?! I didn't have a problem with my chicks a year ago and it was earlier in the year. Those poor...

I had to put off my Embden gosling order due to availability and since I've had more time to look and read, I'm now thinking about Buffs. From what I've read, they seem to have similar dispositions, but correct me here if that's not true. Embdens, according to the charts I've seen lay 35-45...

I asked this in my last post, but I think it got buried in my other questions. I am wondering about the hand feeding thing. Some have said not to feed things out of your hand and others say they do. Is this just for geese or ducks, too, and what is the reasoning behind it? I really don't...

Okay, 10 Welsh Harlequins due, hopefully, Tue or Wed. Getting things ready and when I get my attempt at the watering set-up (a la Metzers) I'll post a pic. Now, questions... I bought Purina Flock raiser crumbles (20% protein, no meds) and have some Gro-gel on hand and some chick grit. I...

Metzers talks about a platform for ducks waterer in their rearing suggestions... Waterfowl can also be very messy with their water. For them it is best to make a wire platform on which the waterer sits. For babies it can be 1/2" hardware cloth and for adults it can be 1" welded wire nailed on...

I am really not so thrilled with Cackle right now. Please don't flame me here, I just need to vent to people who I hope will understand. As those of you who've been to their site know, they don't have a chart showing what's available & when. I went by they're hatching chart since there was...

Okay, I looked back and some of you said your geese that "free range" hang out in your other animals' sheds. Well, I plan to let ours share the pasture with our goats and donkey, but the "bunkhouse" is maxed-out as it is (really gotta remodel that one). I am thinking of building a shed for the...

I have used a frig box as a brooder for my chicks, but thought the bottom would get too gross fast. I know some have used the hard plastic pools, but with 8-10 ducklings that will quickly be too small. Saw these (18" D x 8' diam.) for $19 w/free shipping and thought "maybe??". Just wondered...

I'd like to get 2-3 geese and I am thinking either Embden or Toulouse (2 geese and a gander) - I am mainly interested in friendliness. Thoughts? Now for the goose quarters which may also play into the breed questiion... I don't really want to have to pen them up at night since that chore would...

Just posted my duck question and now I have one for the "goose people". Along with the Welsh Harlequins I am wanting, I'd like to get 2-3 geese. I am thinking either Embden or Toulouse (2 geese and a gander) and I am mainly interested in friendliness. Thoughts? Now for the goose quarters...

Hi all! We built a pond last summer and I am really wanting to put some duckies out there to enjoy it. It's about a 1/2 acre triangular shape and 20 feet deep on the wide end. It's also about 100 yards or more from the house. I travel and I know my DH won't want to round them up at night so...

Hi folks! Back again with a question I'm sure is not new, but... I gave away my 2 roos last weekend and mid week my husband said he heard crowing from the coop. No dear, must be the neighbors roos, said I. Well, went out to open the barn this a.m. and cock-a-doodle-huh?! Looked in an one of...

Hi all, been busy with spring break, school testing (ugh), and coop building. Thought I'd drop a few pics of my junior misses . Their temp. housing is the teenchick condo and they seem to like it. I hand out some clover, worms, and other goodies from time to time so things won't get dull. We...

Here's one of my little Blk. Austr. and her feathers are sooo much larger/longer than the other chicks (even the other Blk. Aust.). She looks like a June bug (guess that will end up being her name ) when their little wings sticking out out. It is just amazing how fast their feathers are coming...

I am still in awe. Are my eyes playing tricks on me - I leave them for awhile, come back, and their little feathers are even longer!? It's like that time lapsed photography stuff. It's not fair - I want them to stay "fluffy butts" for a little while! Are they supposed to have 1 inch feathers...

I know I'm pretty green when it comes to chicken facts, but I believe I heard a whopper this morning on the Today show when they were talking about egg color. Now, mind you, this was from "Cooking Light" Magazines editor(?) but she said something like "I just learned an amazing fact - it seems...