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I have 6 female Welsh Harlequin Ducks and one Welsh Harlequin Drake for sale for $80 for the lot. I'm willing to split them as long as you want the drake. The drake is from Holderreads - Gold Phase - He is 2 years old. He is not show quality. He is not aggressive to people at all, and...

I found this quote from an essay by E.B. White about geese, and it made me laugh. I'm going to have to look for more references to geese in my books just for fun . . . although I may not tell my family. I am perilously close to only getting goose knick knacks for holidays and birthdays . . ...

Well, I was all set to make an order for more Welsh Harlequin ducklings today, and thought my decision was simply whether to go with sexed ducklings from Metzers, or unsexed ducklings from Holderreads, when I went out to feed the birds. I checked my broody duck without any hopes of ducklings...

Since I put the goslings and their mom's out with the rest of the geese, all of the adults are suddenly doing this funny stomp dance . . . it makes us laugh to watch . . . What on earth are they doing? We are having a lot of fun making up reasons. I haven't been able to get a video of mine...

Here's a few pictures of my geese and their batch of 12 goslings . . . the goslings are 2 weeks old exactly, and doing great. I may not get much done watching them out my window though. Today was their first day outside, and the ganders first meeting with their goslings. The ganders had...

I committed to some goslings from a local feed store, but thought they were going to be Toulouse. When I went in this week, the owner said they were African, which surprised me. My yearling American Buff's hatched out 12 goslings unexpectedly, so I'm not going to NEED to keep the goslings...

Today when I checked on my broody bantam silkie, I found a chick and a duckling - much to my surprise. I'd thought she wasn't going to hatch out anything . . . but obviously she had different ideas. The family is eating and drinking well . . . My question is whether the duckling looks like a...

My daughter came into the house after school today, yelling Goslings Goslings, they finally had Goslings! She (and I, I'll admit it ) are so excited -- after 2 nests that failed,we figured none of the geese would have goslings this year. Buttercup the goose has 6 completely hatched goslings...

Just curious - do any of you try to have a broody hen hatch out ducks? I've got a broody silkie and I would much rather have Welsh Harlequin Ducklings than mixed bantam chicks . . . do you mist the eggs to compensate for the hen not taking a bath every day? How many should I put under a...

Hi, I have two geese sitting on eggs, a third goose building a nest and laying MORE eggs, 1 enormous grumpy broody Black Giant hen sitting on about 30 eggs in the chicken house, and a nutty silkie that just hatched out two chicks . . . and yet my Welsh Harlequins ducks show no sign of...

I have two broody hens right now, and probably more soon. My rooster is not the same breed as my hens (cochin x cuckoo maran anyone?) and I'd rather have chicks that were something that I'd enjoy. Instead of ordering chicks it occured to me that I can use my broody hens and skip the...

I have one goose that has a gap where all of her breast feathers are missing - probably about the size of an apple. Mostly her other feathers slide over and keep it covered up unless she beats her wings - but I will keep trying to get a picture of it. She's an American Buff goose. My kids...

We had some Trumpter swans stop by to check out the geese. The geese were impressed and stayed far, far away from the swans. The ducks are hiding behind the geese here. That is their method of dealing with strange things. And please note that the geese weren't loose -- I let them out to...

Yesterday, I caught all my 10 week old geese around a fresh mole hill, gobbling down the dirt as fast as they could. Now, I don't care about the mole, but I was wondering if this was just geese nibbling on anything possible, or geese short of some vital mineral, or just geese trying to find...

We have our geese in our orchard now, to keep the grass down. My they are excellent at that! But, they also nibble on the lower branches of the apple trees, and have pulled off leaves -- not a big issue as the trees are way bigger than they are. We also have a field of Christmas trees - they...

I have one Rouen duck that is doing the mating dance thing with her drake and I'm wondering what weird places to look for her eggs. Where have you found your first duck egg? It's been fun searching every morning - like Easter every day - but I'd hate to miss them and have to dump them because...

I've been looking and looking for pullets - I realized that my main egg layers were 2 years old, and I was shocked. How have I lost track of time? (No wonder I wasn't getting very many eggs!) So I was eagerly scanning craigslist for pullets or laying hens -- younger than a year -- breed didn't...

Hi, I need to build about 500 ft of fence this summer, along our road, to keep the kids and birds safer. I'd like it to be a permanent, long lived fence (hate fencing!) so I know it will be on the more expensive side. Any tips or tricks people have discovered while they have fenced? It will...

I have one gosling that is limping - I think he/she got trampled by the flock during the night sometime. She/he can walk after a fashion with his wings all spread and sort of hobbling. The gosling is very alert and seems completely healthy other wise -- looks around, eats grass, talks to the...

I'm so frustrated. The neighbor's dog just got loose and ran through our property today. Neighbor comes wandering over saying "I'm sorry the dog got out again." This is the same neighbor and the same dog that killed a chicken in February, after which we called animal control. Animal control...