I have infinite Source of Sweet Potato leaves(have 2.2 grams of protein), Cassava Leaves(rabbit feed of choice in Africa), Moringa (proven superfood),Mulberry leaves and branches (I heard in UK mulberry is a popular forage for rabbits) bamboo leaves,Legume leaves,Bokchoy and Hay. I also have...
I am not a crafty person so I cannot DIY building cages, I decided to buy cages for meat rabbits. Currently my rabbits live in the same cage but I know once they are adults, they will kill each other. I think the big cage will go to the first female to breed. I am planning to buy cages for the...
I have hundreds of laying baskets for the geese but geese have tendency to want to lay eggs and hatch eggs on baskets that are already occupied. One of my geese died because another geese sits on her because she alway want to lay eggs on that basket too. I don't know why they have this behavior...
I heard a gosling was screaming in the middle of 3:00 am in the morning. SO rush to my barn and I saw a rat pulling down my healthiest gosling inside a hole. I tried pulling my gosling away and save him but he ends up having seizures after the rat attack. This was a fat and healthy gosling who...
I had been dealing with a lot of lost because this monitor Lizard that managed to lived in my Backyard, this lizard usually attacks at night. I lost lots of goslings and ducklings because this animal. I made a research if this animal is endangered specie and it was labeled as least concern. So...
I have no incubator because buying one wont make sense for me because I live in an area with rotating blackouts. My only choice to have goslings is to have geese go broody on them. I have 7 female geese but my production is only twice a year. One in march and one in december.
Someone told me...
I have 6 adult Chinese females with no Mates because my sole Gander is monogamous. I am originally going to buy Chinese gander goslings but I am considering to explore crossbreeding now because every single goose farmer in my town raises Chinese. Having a bigger crossbreed might help me stand...
I notice they look similar.
My male Chinese goose is monogamous so I am considering to buy additional ganders. I notice Meltzer sells African Geese and I wonder if African can cross with Chinese. No one breeds African in my town, Most goose here are Chinese.
What other geese I can cross...
Every month, My ducks lay eggs unless they broody and have ducklings. Every month my chicken lay eggs unless they are broody and have chicks. My chinese geese only lays eggs twice a year. In february and december.
This the diet of my geese
Rice bran
cracked corn
Layer commercial feed
Banana...
A week ago, A tragedy happened rats attacked my gosling cage and killed four of them. My goslings live in big cage inside with their mom so their mom can give them warmth at night. I wanna free range them but my place have rats,hawks, monitor lizards and snakes. Goslings is like their...
My ducks and chickens are now in hundreds but my geese are still 7. Why? Goslings always die. I started with free ranging them with their mom. Well the babies got killed by floods, various predators like rats, monitor lizards,hawks and stray dogs, or they got tangled on a vine. Then There is a...
I am mostly a duck guy but I now dabbled on in the world of chickens. It all started when my aunt gifted me 3 female Native Asian chickens and 1 rooster. It is known to be a hardy heritage breed. You can find them in the wild in the Philippines too.
People breed them for both eggs and meat...
Poultry stores never reopened on my area and I can't do online shopping because the quarantine guards are not letting delivery guys go to my town.
In an animal clinic, I found this and this is for cows and goats but it has niacin which is good for my ducks.
Farmer neighbors of mine just...
I have 2 new 1 week old ducklings who are weak right now. it's not niacin deficiency because their water have multivitamins and water on it. They don't want to eat. I suspect they ate the rice husk bedding and they got indigestion. Usually I feed them chick booster and they use to eat it like...
I have a 5 week old duckling who became Niacin deficiency. tried saving it by giving it niacin water and Polyvisol shot. The poor thing is almost vegetable, Can't walk and eat but can stand for few seconds. It has a wry neck too. I give it water and Poly Vi Sol drops. Should I give up? I...
Every two month I trim the feathers of my ducks and geese, I didn't realized that one of my geese girls had manage to evade regular haircuts for a long time. She flew and my neighbor found her on the kindergarten school on the street. The neighbor recognized my goose and returned her to me. I...
As far as far as I remember ducks stop laying eggs at age 7 to 9. I found out that many egg farms that raise ducks retire their girls at age 2!! Once they reached that age, to the duck roasters they go. I have plans to make my one of my muscovies to sit Balut eggs so I can have some mallards on...
I usually free range ducklings and make them live with Mommy but recently the weather of my country had been hostile to ducklings, so ducklings drown from endless torrential downpours, so Climate change is real. Also, my new neighbor is a Crazy Cat lady... I have cats, but they are indoors but...
In meat shops, there is a by product called saw dust, they are basically ground meat collected from circular saw using for splitting animal carcasses. Its technically ground beef but marketed more as dog food. Since poultry shops are still close, I am considering to feed meat to ducklings...
My place just got flooded and I have a duck mother with 8 ducklings and only 3 ducklings survive. Then one of them died of seizure. So I only have 2 left.
Getting wet in water makes the mother doesn't recognize them anymore so I decided to put them inside a box with a lamp and an Old PC UPS...