With several comments about finding it hard to obtain good quality Brabanters, has anyone purchased from Sandhill? Where have you found good quality stock? If our town changes it's regs, this is...
First, watching a runner duck run is awesome. They can find their own food. They aren't like pekins in water. Mine haven't started laying but I heard their decent.
Raz- I'm not sure how posting works, but I wanted to say, I love your skunk. Mine's name is Scout, he lives in my office guarding my chicks,keets and ducklings from Chloe (coon).
Really? They forage that well? Wonderful! I've got 6 pullets coming in next week's order along with a slew of Dark Cornish, 4 BLRW and 3 Buckeyes. I've been looking for good foragers My feed bill I don't want to think about! I just keep trying out breeds till I find one I really, really like! I don't hold out much hope for my Blue Andalusians as foragers and the Golden Buffs I simply got for the eggs.
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One of my Dominiques. They are amazing, I don't feed them a thing and they are fat.
They are great foragers, but I have a hard time getting mine to lay and roost in their coop, so maybe you would have to let them out after they have laid their eggs for the day.
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Does anyone know what this is? I found it on a milkweed plant last summer.
I know my bugs! I had to help my son with a 4 -H project that involved a bug collection. Anyway it's a difficult one .....Red Milkweed Beetle. Really!! look it up.
What an imaginative name...
Do you know what these are? They were both found on milkweed.
"There is nothing in which the birds differ more than man than the way in which they can build and yet leave the landscape as it was before"
~Robert Lynd~
"There is nothing in which the birds differ more than man than the way in which they can build and yet leave the landscape as it was before"
It looks like I need to go get more beer. I stopped and picked up pork-chops. Plus I have smoked sausage dogs. It will be like a pre-Chickenstock warm up party.
I better mow and tidy up a bit. At least the bathroom was cleaned.