HI there,
Found this post in a google search. I have two groups of breeding blue magpie ducks and got some rather nice whites from them. Mostly have been eating or selling on until I read about the Stanbridge White...I would love to be involved in maintaining this breed...
New to keeping these but loved them after I had a hen from a friend.. So I bought a trio from breeder who was giving up to concentrate on other birds.
All well, hatching and I got a few single comb, so culled once I was told it was a throw back, but now I have a cockerel growing on and it does...
There is a website which offers information in English but I cannot get it to work for some reason with my browsers.http://www.pouletbresse.com/site/
The video is pretty self explanatory, though some may find it not to their taste. The standard I guess is not used outside of France as they...
I have these in UK and have been amazed at how friendly and fast they grow. The chicks seem to come out pretty much ready to set to eating and drinking! Not eaten one yet as Mr Fox took the one we were going to use as the breeding cockerel so had to keep the less than perfect one till I could...
Thanks all. Brown boy and his pals came through a rehoming. They were scaring the mother, as they were starting to react to the young children who were teasing them Brown boy's foot had been stood on as well by a horse the day we picked them up...and his toe was almost severed in two, but the...
We have been lucky I guess. Up to now our flock of geese have remained in the paddock overnight, flocking to one corner for night time. No losses despite our neighbours losing chickens in daylight hours. THEN, I go to feed the geese in the morning, putting the grain in the dog kennel run to stop...
How much will one gooose graze ? We have 13 and they graze about half of a 3 acre paddock. They have kept the grass down quite short.
How many will I need to keep together so that they are happy? I guess you will need at least a pair. We have a mixture of breeds and although I can sex the...
We have a similar issue. Goats share the paddock with the geese> I solved it by putting the food behind the bars of a dog run/cage that we use to store our hay/straw. It backs onto the paddock, has bars that the geese can get their heads through but the goats cannot. Well, they can get a tongue...
My little abacot boy has done some growing up. Here he is with his runner duck buddies and his ladies, well almost, he is a bit shy and hid behind the water container.
Mud everywhere!
He was out in our shed and has not fully feathered out- about 6 weeks old. Cold here in Oct, so heat pad was in there, with plenty of space for him to move away from it. He is not eating, not drinking and cannot walk. I brought him in last night, and kept him in our laundry cupboard. Hot water...
He made it through the night, still huffing away ? bit slower. Unsteady still, pooping well. Given him first tube feed for day. Any ideas what else I can do for him. He is a special boy...means a lot to me...
Tony is the lone duckling from a poor hatch. so called because he was the t'ony one! He has been doing really well up to a few days ago, when he seemed to slow down, spend more time resting on his heat pad, and today, he did not even get up to come to see his food. He is lethargic, not eating...
I can advocate the metzer link. I used this to learn how to vent sex poultry, but do prefer to do it when they are small! We recently took on 6 extra geese, and they are very different (same breed) in their vocalising/behaviours. My original group, the females have the deep butch voices and tend...