I have a photographer friend that will be doing a photo shoot in the Des Moines Iowa area and she is looking for Embden geese for the shoot. Does anyone know of breeders or someone that has some? Thanks in advance.
What is the cause of the wet around the eye, on the feathers? This is the only one with a issue of this wet and dirty around the eye. She has access to fresh water daily for cleaning and putting her head in. I just don't know what causes this. Also is it fairly normal for eyes to be like this as...
We have a couple of pekin ducklings that are 8 weeks old. One has yet to really grow out her feathers and both have or seem to have raspy breathing. So I'm curious is there something I can do or give them? Or will they just out grow their breathing issue. I'm wondering if I should give them a...
My son and his Grand Champion Breeding Ducks, Grand Champion Overall Poultry and he won another Grand Champion Poultry award with them too. Yes, he looks oh so thrilled in the pic, but lack of sleep and heat played a huge part in it.
The judge absolutely loved the runners. They are not standing...
Here are my son's runner ducks he wants to show in 4h next week. He signed up to do breeding ducks so he has to choose between the two trios of runners and the saxony ducks. I posted about the saxony's on another post.
Back in January I went into the auction area on here looking for call ducks for my son. Found an ad contacted the seller gave a deposit, was told they were going to be laying really well soon. Well its now June, I have not heard anything from the seller about hatched ducklings, and I have now...
Per our 4h fairbook it states large birds are to supply their own cages for the fair and be pre-approved. Does anyone have plans for building some? My son will be taking Saxony's and also runner ducks. Thanks for the help and guidance.
One of my son's 4h project saxony's has what I would call weepy eyes or a cold in its eyes or what could it be, and what can we do to treat it? The duck was born on March 9th. The other ducks don't have it and also his/her quack is raspy. It has some gunk in its nostils that I cleaned out...
We picked up some ducklings last week that were 2 weeks old, they were kept in a small enclosed building with a heat lamp. We brought them home and put them in our basement since our brooder house wasn't quite ready. Can or do we dare put them out there with night temps around 40 degrees and a...
We have a brooder house that we used/use for the chickens. It was suggested to us to keep our show ducks on cement and in researching I have seen some keep their ducks in houses w/runs on stands. Do we need to do this or can we just use our brooder house? My plan is to either split our brooder...
We are just starting out and are looking for your past experiences on the do's and don'ts for raising, showing calls. He has done 3 years of raising and showing chickens at the fair and did well.
We've been told to keep them on cement to keep them clean and I have seen some peoples coops off the...
My son wants to show Snowy Call Ducks this year and we need some help in finding a breeder or good place to purchase some. Our county fair will be the week after the 4th of July. We live in MN and would like to get them to us as soon as we can.
Thanks for the help.
Hello,
I've been on here before but it was quite awhile back and I don't believe I ever posted here. My son has been showing poultry in 4h for the past couple of years and this year plans to show Snowy Call Ducks. If we can find some that is.
We live in Southern MN.
We ordered chicks and of course with the Batams its a "straightrun". The chicks are now 3 months old and I still cannot figure out if we have a rooster. Is there a good way to tell now as they all look alike to me. I can tell on the other breed which are roosters because of their combs. But its...