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    Proud Cayuga owners!!!!

    Hi, we are not exactly local but ARE in TN! We raise Anconas, Cayugas and recently Silver Appleyards. How many Cayugas are you looking for?
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    Pomeranian Goose Breed Thread

    We are "somewhat" patiently waiting for our gray saddlebacks to arrive from your very own state of Maine! They will be a very nice addition to our Sebastopol goslings...
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    Pomeranian Goose Breed Thread

    We are also looking for a decent used Sportsman, where did you find yours? We have 3 of the cheapie styrofoam incubators, one still air we use as a hatchery and 2 with fans.. our success rate is okay with geese, ducks and guineas, but we sure do want something more substantial. Do you mind...
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    Pomeranian Goose Breed Thread

    We have ordered our gray saddlebacks now from a farm in Maine, Little Spring Farmcroft. Anyone have any experience with them? We ordered 4 straight run. Cannot wait to get them! We hatched out 3 Sebastopols a week ago and fell in love with the goslings...such personality! We decided we...
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    Proud Cayuga owners!!!!

    btw we ordered our sexed Cayugas from MacMurrays 10 hands and 2 drakes. Still have all 12 and their eggs are in the incubator. We were very impressed with MacMurrarys and would order again. We have Cayugas and Anconas, the latter we could only get straight run, (from WorthIt farms in GA)...
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    Proud Cayuga owners!!!!

    a few of ours are getting some white areas at just over one year old. Be interesting to see if individuals vary much in when that occurs and if we can select eggs from the ones that turn white less or not at all.
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    Ancona Ducks

    our Anconas did not start laying until they were almost 7 months old they laid all winter here in TN if you give them extra hours of light in the winter they will lay more in the cold months HOWEVER what we discovered is that a duck will lay only a certainl amount of eggs in their...
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    Incubating duck eggs

    We also have about 40 duck eggs in the incubator, 20 cayugas and 20 anconas. We already had an automatic turner so the number of turns was not an issue to us. Humidity IS and we are using as our guide David Holderreads excellent book printed by Storey's called Raising Ducks. We have hatched...
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    Proud Cayuga owners!!!!

    Hi, new to raising ducks and proud owners of 10 cayuga susies and 2 drakes. They are laying like crazy, have 20 eggs in the incubator now, some of the darker eggs are a bit harder to candle but looks like most are fertile. We were worried since that is 5 to one ratio, wondered if the guys...
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    Ancona Ducks

    We have Anconas and Cayugas. We bought our Anconas from a farm in Georgia last year. We bought straight run and wound up with 6 females and 8 drakes. We love our Anconas, they are prolific layers and right now we have 20 of their eggs in the incubator, starting to candle now and looks like...
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    Hello from NW Tennessee!

    Hi, newbies here, and newbies to raising ducks. We started with 14 Anconas and 12 Cayuga a year ago at this time with day old ducklings. We now have our first eggs in the incubator about 20 of each breed. We are just having fun at this point and wondering if we might sell eggs and or ducklings...
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