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    Taming Sebastopol Goslings

    I brought home an adult pair of Sebastopol geese a few months ago (my first exposure to geese). The female immediately went broody and the male got a bit bored and ‘hung out’ with the humans. He wouldn’t let us touch him, but would follow us everywhere and nibble a bit. When the four goslings...
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    Brooding duck in with other ducks

    I have a Welch Harlequin duck ‘Lovey’ sitting on four eggs about to hatch. She currently shares her run with an older Indian Runner duck and a two month old male Indian Runner who she was a foster mom to. Lovey is an amazingly calm and friendly duck and has been having a surprising calming...
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    New Lone Gosling Questions

    Im new to geese and this is my first hatch. The mom seemed to struggle a bit with successful hatching. We ended up with three live goslings, one dead gosling, two partly hatched but dead in smashed eggs and one newly hatched and for all purposes cold wet and dead and shoved out of the nest. When...
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    Looking for Appenzeller Spitzhauben.

    I live in Washington State and have been unable to find any Appenzeller Spitzhaubens(?) in my area. Will I have to break down and mail order from cackle. I’m actually only looking for a silver spangled rooster. Mine died recently after a being in some mystery declining health for a couple of...
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    What color is this?

    This roo is almost two years old. He’s a part Sultan / frizzle bantam mix. He looked like he would be a splash as a chick - white with a few black spots. And then, at about four months he started to look like he fell in a very muddy puddle - and he still looks that way today. 😬😆
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    Sizzle with double genes

    I think I’ve ended up with a sizzle hen with a double dose of the frizzle gene. I purchased her as a young hen and she looked fine, but now she looks like she’s going through a molt and has a lot of bare skin. I got the sense her breeder was careful to avoid double dosing, but seeing naked spots...
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    Rescued Bantam Rooster - Breed?

    The neighbors saw this bantam rooster in vacant wooded acreage near us and thought it might be one of mine. It wasn’t, but I thought it needed rescuing from being coyote or owl dinner - and now here we are 😆. He’s tiny - but what is he? - because he’s really cute. And now I’ve nowhere to put...
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    English Orpington Hen or Roo?

    My English Orpingtons are about 41/2 months old now. It’s been pretty clear for awhile that I had three roosters and seven hens, until …, this ones combs and wattles started to get bigger and redder. When she’s next to a rooster she looks like a hen, but when he’s next to the hens he looks like...
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    Rooster Bachelor Pad Tips?

    This past spring I ordered about 25 straight run chicks. I had to get large numbers because most were mail orders of specific breeds. Of course this means I’ve ended up with nearly ten (rather lovely) roosters. I got quite lucky with my English Orpington lot with three Roos to eight hens. They...
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    English Orpingtons Fun Colors?

    I got some mixed color English Orpingtons from Papas Poultry and three were from his ‘laced red project’. He cautions that it’s in its early stages. It’s all good with me because I’m just fond of my color variety. One of the chicks has really grown on me however, and I’m wondering if any of you...
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    Silkie frizzles slower to show curl?

    I got six potential sizzle/frizzle silkie chicks hoping to get at least one with curly feathers. One is definitely smooth (satin?) feathered. The remaining five have the silkie feathering with no obvious curling. Until this morning when one seems to be showing a couple seriously curled feathers...
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    Any Sizzles?

    I ordered six ‘sizzle’ chicks - hoping for at least one sizzle or frizzle. Is it too early to tell? One is definitely a smooth silkie (five toes - a bit muted black skin tone). The pics are from yesterday at six days old. I’m a bit new to ‘growing’ silkie chicks - I’ve mostly acquired adults...
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    Failure to thrive? new strategy?

    I brought a new batch of chicks home from the feed store on Friday. By day two, one of the little Prairie Bluebell Eggers was showing little to no interest in life. I tried many of my usual strategies and was getting quite depressed. Especially given I couldn't even make any kind of progress...
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    Last hatchling not eating

    So our littlest duckling (I think the last one to hatch) isn't eating. When momma duck gathers all the little ones for a nap, he runs back to the food, sits down next to it and falls asleep. When he's with the others he kind of sits by himself and looks lethargic (and the others aren't picking...
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    Daytime raccoon attack

    In the past eagles have been my big predator problem and since I have most everything well protected with netting, I've been doing quite well here. Until a few days ago ... I keep my favorite ducks and silkies in a large pen near our house with a first class coop and fenced and covered run...
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    Eagle attacked my 85 lb Rough Collie

    My husband was home today and heard our Collie start barking like crazy. He looked out the window and an eagle had landed in our chicken/duck run. The ducks and chickens were all in their respective 'safe' runs (which are smaller runs completely enclosed with chicken wire) so they weren't...
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    Four Silkie Cockerels for sale

    $6.00 each. Pick up only -- or I can meet you half way if it's not too far to go (I go to the Bothell/Woodinville area once a week). Three blues(?) and one splash. They hatched in late May. 'Dad' is pictured below with buff hen (who may be 'mom' to a few of them). I originally thought 'mom'...
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    Seriously - I have a drake incubating eggs!?

    I have a bantam duck pair (of questionable breeding). The neighbor thought they were Call ducks when she asked me to 'rescue' some of her ducklings who had lost there momma duck. However, they look more like East Indie mixes to to me (the female seems to have some 'wild type' coloring with a...
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    Unexpected color from 'accidental' breeding

    I have two blue silkies and a light buff. The blue and buff hens were housed together with my blue roo, but I moved the buff hen out so I could isolate the eggs from the two blues. We had a desperately broody bantam cochin (from a little flock with no roos) and so I took a few of the eggs from...
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    Cock fighting behavior in chicks?

    Guess I'd seen this before and hadn't thought much about it. But does the 'cock fighting' posturing that goes on with chicks give any indication as to whether they will be roos or not? Or is it all just part of the 'pecking order' thing that starts shortly after they hatch?
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