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    Choosing a Hatchery - Ideal poultry?

    hi, I know this is a late post to your original post. In 2006, we ordered our first group of chickens and geese from Ideal. We eventually had 10 geese within the first 2 years. We have one left, so in March I am driving to Ideal to pick up 3 companions for him. All of the geese we received...
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    SNAKES! Lost peachick and 3 keets

    We bought 4 peachicks and 8 keets on Saturday. They've been doing great. We've also had a problem with snakes this summer. As of today, I think we've killed close to 20 rat snakes. All of them have been at least 5 feet long. I had placed the babies in our dogroom/chicken room off of our...
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    Looking at getting peafowl

    all birds are up, moving and eating today, so things are looking good!
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    Looking at getting peafowl

    Thanks for your replies. My son and I visited with Sid from Texas Peafowl today and we brought home four peachicks (4 weeks old? I think) and 8 guinea keets. His place is really nice. One of the peachicks is a pied, but I'm not sure about the other three. It was a long drive home, 1.5 hours...
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    Looking at getting peafowl

    We have been thinking of getting a pair or trio of peafowl for a while now. I am hoping to visit one or two local farms to get an idea of the best way to house the birds. We have about 100 chickens, 12 ducks, 10 geese, 5guineas and three baby turkeys. Our birds freerange and sleep together in...
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    Geese dogs and chickens

    Watch the chickens with the babies. We raised six goslings and kept them in a pen. As I was bringing them in, one of our chickens pecked the eye of one of the babies. It happened so fast, I could not have stopped it, so we have a half blind goose. She's about 2-3 years old now and functions...
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    Texas Chickenstock 2008 - update 1st page

    Carla, We're not going to be able to come afterall. My son graduates from Kindergarten on Thursday, and I have volunteered to do a slideshow for the reception. I've got to work on it most of the weekend to get it completed in time. I hope you and everyone enjoy the day. I really regret not...
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    Young female pekin ducks wanted D/FW

    Our Pekin drake, Big Daddy, came home without his two girls on Sunday. Every day since, he's walked down the road calling for them. It really breaks your heart seeing his pain. Does anyone in the D/FW area have young Pekin females they would like to part with? We can take as many as 6. I...
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    2 Sebastopol Goose Eggs For Sale ~ Central Texas **THESE ARE SOLD**

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    2 Sebastopol Goose Eggs For Sale ~ Central Texas **THESE ARE SOLD**

    Do you ever sell goslings? We're just south of Waxahachie and the Sebbies are really cute, but I haven't had good luck with eggs. I'm also in need of some pekin females because our two girls didn't come in last night and their hubby is very upset. We have way too many drakes to our females...
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    how could this day possibly get any worse

    We've lost 2 sheep, one last year (Louis, 1 year) and then this year (Napoleon, 2 years). Both seemed to have bloated, but they were sick for a couple of days. We buried them fairly close to where they died. What we saw, they stopped eating a few days before, then their breath became labored...
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    $1,000+ dollar duck - a warning!

    I'm posting this here instead of the "Other Poultry" thread because it might save someone trouble in the future. On the other BYC forum, I'd posted several times about my duck Button, who I raised in the house. Well, raising her in the house caused some problems that we didn't know about...
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    Texas Chickenstock 2008 - update 1st page

    Carla, I'm probably just coming with John. Charles is building a huge addition on the side of our barn to house the chickens and still hasn't finished. He also joined the state guard and they have training the next weekend. So he probably will not come. Is there anything noncooking related...
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    Howdy Y'all!

    I sent you an email. My maiden name is Metcalf and we're from the Dallas area, just wondering if we're related. Susan Richardson
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    Wyandottes from Cackle Hatchery?

    We bought 15 Ameracaunas from them last summer and they're beautiful. We have a GL rooster from Ideal who is so well mannered and beautiful. His spurs are huge and probably sharper than any of our other roosters but he's never used them. The two girls we have are very pretty. The roosters...
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