SHAPE - DRAKE AND DUCK
Bill: Long, broad, with specks of colour desirable.
Eyes: Large well set. Plumage colour under the eye also desirable.
Head: Long, straight.
Neck: Long, Strong, and slightly arched.
Back: Quite long, somewhat flat along the top line, and broad, plumage colour covering at...
After researching, it is the only thing that I found personally that matches the symptoms exactly, so that was one of the top things I was guessing. I would be thrilled to find out something different, though.
Symptoms this morning, as well as last year, in order:
Found baby on her back...
He ducked under some ferns and into EagleClan camp. Cats parted and hissed at the newcomer, their eyes dark and unwelcoming.
From a blackened den not far emerged a slender, grey she-cat. She raised her ears a little, but did nothing about her warriors. She blinked once, parted her jaws in a...
From the standard I've read on Pit games, I personally would think his legs are about right. It calls for "Medium length" then they also have "Medium length" thighs. He's pretty close I think, I wouldn't call him high stationed.
Here's the standard though:
Male Characteristics
CARRIAGE -...
If you do true free ranging as I do you have to expect once the hawks find and get to eat the chicken they will come back again and again. Color really has little to do with it. Perhaps if they freeze a white fowl in winter would take a second round to see. BUT that said hawks have keen...
A ship has been stalking them since nearly the beginning
Zena stood when they docked and he came in, torks in his hand.
Zena shook her head "No" Tori wasn't agreeable, either. "Shut up." He remarked, putting the band on her neck. "No" She said rearing, and trying to get it off
A painful shock...
Yeah, I have seen fruit doves and the like. By "natural" I was referring to their stance. Having a bird with its backarched and head touching its tail, or standing so up right it looks like its leaning forward to catch its balance is not a look or form I want in my birds.
I actually do like...
K Epp,
I'm so sorry about your little d'Uccle rooster. He was very brave, and knew his job was to protect his hen.
You've got some pretty big hawk species in north GA, but I think most adult turkeys are too big for most hawks. But the juveniles could be attacked. Or a hungry raptor could...
You go girl!
If you haven't processed already and need some help, count me in!
Thanks I think I remember you talking about this last year and I was going to do this well.
Congrats!
So sorry for your loss!
Yay! I love when that happens, but someone went broody again...
Thanks! I do need to...
Sparrowtail grunted in pain and gasped, sucking air hungrily into his lung before launching a counter attack. He ran at Hawk, but instead of leaping on him he ducked and slid under the tom's belly, thrusting upwards and away, flinging him halfway across the clearing.
Silverstream hissed in...
I'm sure someone who knows what they're talking about will chime in here, but in the meantime, from the ALBC:
The Ancona averages 6 to 6.5 pounds and is a bit stockier than its close relative, the Magpie duck. It has a medium sized oval head, a medium-length bill that is slightly concave along...
Hawk gasped for air, the wind knocked out of him. He got back to his feet and got in a defensive position, waiting on Sparrowtail's next attack.
Mist shrieked in pain and pummeled harder, making the gash deeper and deeper.
Rust hung on, but eventually fell. He got back to his feet and stood...
Well we cannot get too mad when the creatures sound the alarm, whatever the time of night or day. I won't say my chooks cried WOLF...hee hee...but this time I never fully knew, but hey, the one time you decide they ARE crying wolf, there will be a WOLF!
I have Jacobs.
Even though I...
Rescuing Animals: Any and All
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However, most of my experience with animals (before I got into backyard poultry) was through working at the animal shelter and picking up animals on the side of the...
04/25/2011 Hi I am Gayle and have been a lurker to backyard chickens for a couple of years but finally had need to become a member.
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