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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...

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...

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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 think guinea fowl might be beyond me. Bought 24 eggs, lost 4 along the way. 3 died without hatching although they had pipped internally. 7 died, 5 in one day. and now I have a sick guinea- neck arched back over body and legs straight out. It is doing the slow gasp that normally proceeds death-...

She is from my first hatch, and I thought she was going to be a beige colour but she seems more silver than anything. Others in the group are black/white, grey/white and plain white...

Have just managed to get 3 to hatch and am chuffed to bits. Had 6 eggs, one infertile, and two died along the way...also expecting a few runners...but they are slow! All sat on top of the guinea fowl eggs, that came early so am double deckering till I get sorted!

Acquired a friend for Solo our lone gosling, a 5wk old Buff gosling. The name does no justice to the fantastic colours of the feathers. Peachy pearlescent, how amazing, and am now in love with this lovely breed. She is about twice the size of Solo, and am struggling with a name...

After putting some eggs in the incubator, it seems my goose has finally decided to sit on her eggs! I know she has about 10 in there, not sure if they are all her own or the other female has been helping her along, as I have been collecting them roughly weekly. I hope this means lots of...

Watched a really good video on vent sexing on youtube, and thought I would have a try on my baby runners. I have 5 and from my amateur attempts, I think there are 4 ducks and just 1 drake! Only time will tell if I was right...so here it is for posterity! Black/white= boy White= girl Blue/white=...

Incubated 5 to start but one looks like a non starter and we are 7 days or so in. All are from our own geese so pretty excited to see if they all make it. Am hoping our brown buff type boy will have made his mark. Am also collecting a young buff gosling next week to add to the crew.

after losing its sibling 2 days ago after our dog did some extreme "mothering", the remaining gosling was in a pretty poor way. However I have been dressing her wounds with eqyss microtek aloe gel and it went from this DAY 1 to this Day 3 She is now in with the ducklings, for company, as she...

I put my two goslings outside in the dog crate I used for my cockerel chicks to get some air and chomp some grass. My husband came round the corner holding a dead gosling and one still alive. I tried to revive the dead one but no luck at all. Injured one has several rips to the chest, i can see...

We go 4 geese a while ago, 2 male and 2 female. 3 are embdens, white with blue eyes, but one is a different colour, has a different sort of shape above the eyebrow area, and is a buff/linen colour. He also has brown eyes... I recently incubated 4 eggs from them, all 4 were fertile, one died...

Took on 3 cockerel chicks they are now just about 2 months old. This is them as babies and now cockerel boys Still not sure what breed they are. Any ideas? Think one is a RIR maybe... was told they may not all actually be cockerels...

Hi all, We recently hatched our first runner ducklings from our own group of 5. Out of 11 eggs, all were fertile. One stopped growing early on, but all 10 hatched. We lost a small duckling on day 2- just would not feed, and it died overnight. All the others are doing ok, I have 4 that are...