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We went to a sale in Trenton KY today & found out about the bird flu in Christian county KY. No sale today & not for another couple of months! We were wanting to buy some more grown geese ourselves and now can't find any.

I have had very good luck with my silkie hens when they are broody; they have hatched out pheasants and peafowl. My silkie hens can handle 2 peafowl eggs fairly well; I have a black silkie hen that hatched out 2 white peachicks last year!

Thanks for the info: I have not seen any squirrels in there yet this season; I did sacrifice a few guinea eggs under a milk crate overnight but nothing bothered them.. I still did not get egg this evening either-that is 2 days now that I have not seen a new egg!

Great idea about the milk crate---I have seen squirrels also running up and down the outer poles, in and out near the eaves, but you would not suspect a squirrel or not? I have seen mice, they are being eliminated as I speak, and the stuff is supposed to work on rats too but I have never seen a...

The year before last we had great production from our one pair of peafowl-white peacock and pied peahen. I allowed the peahen to hatch out a late hatch that September-2 pied males & 1 pied female. Then last year-nothing happens. An egg laid here every now and then and then seem to disappear...

I understand your pain! I have guineas that will lay up piles of eggs, 40 at a time, and this past summer on 2 rare occasions, they would attempt to set for a few days; even managing to hatch out 3 or 4 of the little buggers, and I declare that when I went out to check on them the very next...

Farmer!! Even though we both work at other full time jobs, we are sure we are farmers! We own 46 acres and rent 2 other farms, total acreage altogether being somewhere near 650 acres. My husband owns & raises black Angus cattle; he uses the other farms for pasture to raise the calves up to...

Yup, I agree that a snake has its' place, it just so happens that it's place is not in my Silkie coop!

A snake can sneak in and eat the eggs/chicks right beneath the hen, especially if she is setting where it is secluded and dark. I killed a chicken snake that was in the Silkie coop this past Saturday and it was about 5 feet long.

such a funny story, I can almost see it! They sure do get used to being "spoiled", don't they? I have 18 golden campines in their own separate coop and pens; (we have peafowl, yellow golden pheasants, a handful of guineas and about 25 silkies-they all have their own coops and pens). Anyway...

Jenski, it took me 50 minutes to get in to work this morning; it usually only takes me 25 minutes. I drove very slow even though I am driving a Jeep 4x4. The roads that I was traveling were completely covered with snow and ice and did not seem to get much better until I got closer to Dickson...

Quote: Good grief! I am still at work here in Dickson and it has been snowing for 30 minutes now and everything is covered!! Here we go again....

You are most welcome; I will try to get in touch with him, it may be a day or two before he can get back to me, he teaches school and is quite busy gearing up for the holidays. I have an outpatient surgery on Tuesday that will have me out of pocket for a few days, but I promise you I will not...

I am sorry, I meant that I am in middle Tennessee and I believe that these other 2 breeders are somewhere northeast of middle Tennessee. My contact is in Kentucky and I am thinking that Lynn Shelbourne is in Indiana or Illinois?--not sure and don't know about Steve Gould. I can try getting in...

For those of you interested in a breeder that continually wins awards for their campines, try contacting Cathy Gleason from Texas; you can email her at [email protected]. I have another contact that I can try to reach that has information about 2 other good breeders; I believe that they are...