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Exhibition Dewlap hole in lower jaw! (pic attached)
I'm starting a new thread as I think this particular gander's problem is unrelated to my other geese. I've noticed for some time that my buff exhibition giant dewlap gander (about one year old) was developing and orange, bill colored "growth" along the underside of his bill. It would come and... -
Please help! Wobbly adult geese???
I have three geese out of 12 that continue to have bouts of loss of balance and coordination. They wobble and fall down like they're drunk. I bring them in, give them high doses of B complex and eventually they return to normal. I turn them back out with the others, and within a couple of... -
Toulouse geese and goslings for sale, New Oxford, PA
Production Toulouse geese, adults and goslings for sale. Healthy, strong free-range birds. Excellent egg layers and wonderful parents. Docile and easy to contain, they don't fly so I fence them with my livestock and they do great. Good watch dogs and great weed eaters! $10- Goslings, $25...- dianneS
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What would take an entire flock without a trace?
My neighbors chickens all disappeared without a trace. Yesterday, my Muscovy mom and all 7 babies disappeared without even so much as a feather left behind. I've had fox and raccoon problems before. They always leave a calling card of some sort. What am I dealing with? We have no...- dianneS
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Quail stopped laying, can't figure it out?
My Coturnix quail have suddenly stopped laying. I haven't had a single egg in a few weeks. I don't think it's trauma. We had a raccoon issue a few weeks ago and even after losing 8 birds, the girls continued to lay without issue. We took care of the raccoon too. I did run out of high... -
Having a hard time processing quail :(
Okay, don't make fun of me, I'm a big softy. I've been an off and on vegetarian throughout my life and I don't like killing anything. However, I also don't like the fact that I know what horrors grocery store meat goes through before it gets there. I started raising quail with the intent to... -
How much "bigger" are Texas A&M Jumbos?
I have a bunch of white quail that I hatched. I was told that the eggs were from Texas A&M jumbo birds. I also have a few standard brown coturnix that I hatched from Stromberg's eggs. The white ones frankly aren't any bigger than the brown? I saw some "Jumbo" hatching eggs for sale on ebay... -
Ducks for insect control?
I am looking for a good breed of duck for insect control. I have a pond, will they mostly stay in that area? I would prefer a non-flighted breed as well. I have a coop that they could be locked in at night. Can you really train them to go inside before sunset? I have tried chickens and... -
My new flight pen/aviary!!!
I'm still fairly new to quail, only hatched my first batch a few months ago, but everything has been going great with them so far. My original plan was to have the birds on grass in a portable pen and move them to fresh grass every day. That was working just fine, but I recently decided to... -
Help! 4 Week old Gosling can't walk anymore!
I have two four week old goslings that I got from someone else about one week ago. Both were doing fine until I noticed one of them getting clumsy all of a sudden and spending a lot of time sitting in the grass instead of walking and standing. The other one is still doing great. I checked out... -
Processing quail, what tools do you use?
I had to process my first quail this morning, reluctantly. She broke her leg and it was bad. I put her out of her misery and processed her. She's in the fridge for dinner tonight. I used a pair of kitchen shears to snip her head off. I didn't like that too much. I felt a bit too much... -
Goose eggs hatching under bantam hens TODAY!
I have a flock of 7 Toulouse geese 4 geese and 3 ganders. I wasn't even going to attempt to hatch their eggs in the incubator so I gave one egg each to two of my banty hens. The eggs are hatching today! Both eggs are externally pipped. I can hear one cheeping inside. One has a pretty big... -
Would a gander ever attack one of his girls?
I'm still trying to determine the sexes of my 7 Toulouse geese. I have either 2 or 3 ganders and the rest geese, but still not sure? I was pretty convinced that I had two ganders, not three, but last week I was in the pasture feeding the goats and the dominant gander was of course guarding... -
Blizzard conditions, ganders fighting, drama!!!
My geese have their own pasture next door to the goats, however, they do go under the fence and hang out with the goats. I feed them on their own side of the fence to keep the goats from devouring their food. We just had a near blizzard and we've got over a foot of snow on the ground and 3... -
Cold weather. I moved my quail to the greenhouse.
We're going to have temperatures in the teens for the next week or so. We're also having high winds that I hadn't anticipated. My quail are now 5 weeks old. They survived last night with their coop wrapped in a tarp and a heat lamp, but it's a hassle removing the tarp every time I need to get... -
So will they or won't they climb a ramp? *Update* YES THEY WILL!
I've read that quail will absolutely not climb a ramp into an enclosed house. Is this true? Could they be trained to climb inside by feeding them in there? I have my eye on a cute little chicken coop, but it has a ramp up into the enclosure. I don't know if I could modify it for the quail... -
Can I put 12 day old quail chicks in the chicken coop?
Can I move my brooder full of quail chicks out to the hen house with a heat lamp, or should I keep them in the house a little longer? It is cold here, but I would keep the heat lamp on them 24/7. They are really starting to feather out now. They're the jumbo white coturnix. -
Do you keep white and standard brown Coturnix together?
I just hatched 24 Texas A&M jumbo white quail and now I'm hatching the standard brown. Does anyone keep them all together? Do you let them crossbreed? -
When do I take them out of the bator and into the brooder?
My first quail are hatching today. I woke up to six just hatched and they are still wet but running around faster than chickens ever do! When do they have to go in the brooder? I can't find any info as to how long I can leave them in the bator? I still have 48 eggs in there and I don't want... -
When will my geese start to lay?
I have seven production Toulouse geese. I think three are males and four are females. They are almost a year old. Still no eggs? I know it's still winter and cold, days are still short, but they should start laying SOON?!?! What can I do to encourage them to lay? Do they need nest boxes or...