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Hee hee, nice.
We raised 12 Rouens from Ideal (Awesome hatchery BTW). My sweet bride and I contemplated how we would be able to "process" them for the table. The kids really struggled with it as well. They are like puppies after a while.
So to set the scene - we processed the ducks...
Schwarzen-egger
Tom Cruise (for turkeys- make sure it is a sickly, whiny turkey tho..)
Bandara Streisand (again, should be sickly and whiny)
Cochin Powell
Bill O'Red Cap
Chuck Norris (you cant pun this one, i tried and was punched in the teeth by an invisible hand. Likely Chuck sensed my...
We have 3 breeds - NH Reds (The rooster says - "Live free or die"), Silver Lakenvelders and Black Giants.
The Reds are like little puppies. The love to be held and come running whenever we come around.
The Lakenvelders run for cover like you are coming at them with a live grenade.
The Giants...
1. On duck breeds, give me some recomendations because I want friendly, hopefully unflighty breeds.
Our first and only experience this year was with Rouens. They are incredibly friendly and seem to choose not to fly. They get really fat and are tremendously fun to watch. If you are growing...
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You mean I should stop putting my chickens on a leash and calling them seeing eye chicks? And here I thought the Wal-Mart greeters were believing me!!!!! Ouch that means no more Sunday strolls down to the Quik Stop for me and Chipotle the bull too! Man is he gonna be disappointed! He...
I would go ahead and build. If your neighbors are ok with it.
Each of these sections have a "you shall not do such that would cause such." sound to them. Make sure you are keeping them clean, healthy and you have good neighbors. Sounds like the bottom line is that you keep them quiet...
My vote is Khaki. The belly feathers look just like Rouen. However it is missing the coloring and stripes on the face that is characterisitc of a Rouen.
My 2 year old named one of our ducks "kicken". He thinks they are chickens. My Lakenvelder Rooster is named General Gau. One of my NH Reds is named Barbara Q. We called the others based on personality. Moose, Roadrunner, etc...
I love meat. I eat what I kill. I hunt, fish and trap. I never, ever let an animal die for the sake of sport. Each animal that I harvest is used to the utmost. Not to say I dont buy store meat, because I do. But the meat industry (beef, chicken, pork) has become so amazingly foul. I...
Hagan - we are just up the road!
Wifey and I love these ducks, but man are they messy. They are living outside during the day. Have to keep them seperated from the chickens who are now in their barn. The chickens will beat the tar out of these ducks, they are just big babies...
FYI - I am starting a BYC support group for those of us who have a slight addiction to this forum.
PS - thanks for all the great info. My sweetie and I come here nearly every day for the last month since we have gotten our chicks and ducks! We now have 23 Chickens and 13 ducks...