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Last chance to buy breeders from Sitting Duck Muscovies for this year. We have a wide variety of muscovy colors including barred, blue, silver, blue fawn, chocolate, black, and buff. Most hens as well as drakes for sale...$20 each or 3 for $50. If you are interested, a phonecall is the best...

Yes, I have had the experience of a turkey hen searching for a nest, any nest to replace her nest which I took from her after discovering all the eggs were rotten or dead (she sat in her secret nest in a far pasture through some major storms and her eggs were caked in dried mud). Then hen...

Do you mean break them of their broodiness...that they will set themselves into the ground upon infertile eggs?

I know that they will lay infertile eggs without him, but will they also go broody? If so, I plan to have them sit on fertile eggs acquired elsewhere... They do a much better job raising poults than I do. Thanks!

Quote: Interstellar Duck Academy Woman who's name I do not know, I remember you, too. (I was pleasantly envious of you that you knew so much [more than I did at that time...I was a total newbie] about waterfowl and described such a cool bird scene round your place!) Any chance you are the...

...this other farm having Romans, I can't expess how relieved I am. I don't think David is connected with them...maybe they bought their stock from him but haven't kept up connection...I will learn more. He didn't know where to direct me to find anyone else breeding Romans. *sigh* Thank...

...Dave did not state that he was letting go of the Romans because they are prolific. Not on this continent. They have a 3000 year old history and *are* more common on other continents. And if you know anyone with even just one Classic Roman Goose, please help me to connect with them. Of...

Come on, people. Please don't be so critical. You say the Romans are prolific. Do you know anyone who owns even one of them? I don't. Dave sold very few of them at all. I'm not asking for money. I mentioned that I could keep my project going for $2000 next year (I will have to fly the...

An extrememly rare breed of heritage goose is on the brink of North American extinction. You have heard of the Tufted Roman goose...listed as "critically endangered" by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy? This is their "cousin" breed (possibly unrelated)...The Classic Roman Goose...

Quote: <---This is wisdom. They are human-aggressive only when they learn that they can be. I think Holderread recommends not handfeeding past a certain age...what is it...like two weeks or something!

I laid some scrap tin roofing across stacked strawbales (roofing held down by large rocks)...two bales on each side and the front and back open. Had a plywood floor covered by burlap sacks and lots of straw. I was able to successfully relocate one of my Sebastopols this by pulling her eggs a...

...can be useful to breed back into curlies. It ain't all about the curlies, if you ask me! Edited to add: I dont think that a high-price for *live creatures* is out of line or anologous to a "cash crop". Perhaps more of this kind of problem are the hatcheries who sell most birds for...

Do we have any idea what size of a gathering we're talking about, here? (How big were previous gatherings?) Dana

Quote: Maybe they sense that you are contemplating eating them. I only started contemplating that about 2 weeks ago... before that I hadn't... so I've had them a year and they still hiss and walk away. I appreciate your nonreactivity.

If you could get a video of them walking around and doing stuff, we'd probably be able to tell you what you have based on how they carry their body and head and how they sound. Girls tend to have lower pitched sounds and grunts. Boys are more liable to trumpet and squack. And, I am fully...

Am I mistaken? Do I have 8 females and no drakes? I did hear at least one of those that I thought was a drake quacking loudly today...? I know you can't know what I've got, but does anybody else remember a time when the ducklings all look female...do they sometimes get the male colored plumage...

Quote: I'm very excited about this! I'm subscribing to this thread...don't forget to post it! Thanks, dirge!!

If they have a runway, especially a downhill runway or if there is a strong headwind...especially if she gets scared or has a reason to be on the other side. Dana

...I'm definitely noticing this in my ducks. I'm pretty sure from the quack/rasp ratio that I have 3 saxony drakes and 2 appleyard drakes. They *barely* look different from the quackers, though. When are they going to get their colored heads and all that business? I'm expecting the drake...

You'll clip the flight feathers all the way back to the next row of smaller feathers. Does that make sense? Here's some good instructions. It's pretty easy! http://www.cornerstonefarm.net/wingdemo.html