Eggs are now available for 2022. Price per egg $10.00. Shipping 1-3 day priority, and has increased to $16.00. Only shipping east of Mississippi River. Please PM me if interested.
I didn't trim them. Unless the spurs are causing a problem, I thought it was best to leave them alone. Roosters have spurs for a reason.
Proper flock management is the key to keeping a hen's back from being raked bare from a rooster's toenails.
Walker line Cotton Patch goose eggs. The first egg was laid overnight (3/26-27), and I'm expecting and egg about every other day, going by the rate of lay from last year. $10.00 each plus $13.75 shipping. Shipping only to states east of the Mississippi, due to risk of increased damage to air...
Pretty sure nothing you did wrong, as you tried to help it. Would have died earlier if left in the cemetary.
It probably hasn't eaten enough to stay alive since hatched since he/she was very handicapped. It looked like a Canada goose gosling.
I think a good practice now are stores wrapping baked goods and other items in the cases. I've always thought it unsanitary to have food items open, with flies and other airborne yuckies landing on everything.
The new normal is for you to be scared, to stop you from thinking on your own and using common sense, and letting the media, and g-ment guide you in every little decision and move you ever make.
This is in reference not to you personally, but people in general.
As described in the first post. Dried up, and thin like it hasn't been used. Not the same as a rooster's small crop from being emptied.
But now I'm questioning what I actually saw and I didn't take pictures.
No, not underweight. His breast was full. He's in the oven roasting now.
There wasn't much in his gizzard compared to others that have been butchered before.
The other thought is, can a bird survive and be healthy with a non-functioning crop (without impaction, food just moving straight through) or removed crop, as long as it eats enough while awake?
Butchered a Muscovy drake this morning because we have too many. The crop was difficult to find, and when I found it, it was just a dried up small thin shell. It obviously has not been working or used. The gizzard had mostly sand in it, and I didn't examine the intestines, and now they're...
The only way people are going to get their freedom back is to realize this, and start acting like normal people again, or the freedoms they have given up are going to be gone forever!
I would love to hatch something in the incubator, but have too many birds now. Besides letting my goose hatch a few muscovies nobody else will be allowed to hatch this year. I have quite a few regular broodies.
If anyone would like some laying hens (not free) pm me.
Okay, thanks. I'll keep them through winter. I have a small group of chickens in a shed that I'll use for the quail once this group of chickens live out their lives. They'll have outdoor access too.
Is anyone interested in Cotton Patch goslings? My goose has gone broody since Thursday. If anyone is interested in goslings, I will check fertility and put the eggs in an incubator. I can't let her hatch and raise any, since I don't want anymore geese at this time.
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