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I mist the ducks and geese several times a day and empty and refill their pools in the heat of the day...I freeze gallon jugs of water to place in the brooder with my baby bantams right after lunch when it starts to cook up in their building...I keep wet spots in the sand in the chicken runs...

the deliberate creation of mutts to sell at inflated prices to john Q public just makes me froth at the mouth...there is so much ignorance afoot...I had a French Bulldog that achieved her AKC CH several years ago and was approached by more than one person, who should have been culled at birth...

It has been awful with the heat already...I change pools on the ducks and geese every day in the mid afternoon heat...I take a hose and mist every one several times a day...the babies in the booders (dry pools) get primative ac in that I freeze gallon jugs of water and set the frozen jugs in...

Yes Dances with Ducks...little girl Pekins... ordered 15, one of which was DOA...the 14 are thriving...great use for my puppy food pan...it holds a gallon and is not deep enough for anyone to get in trouble...I chopped broccli florettes yesterday and dumped them in the water dish...it was total...

too many? my first 8 ducks were 7 drakes and 1 duck so I had to order some girls...these lovelies came from Ideal...the two little goslings we hatched...I say we as in I put the eggs under a chicken hen and she sate faithfully for 30 days...

ooooo...they are so cute...

Borax in the house liberally...I tossed a lot of DE in places the dogs rest during the day when we are outsdie working...I boarded a dog and he brought passengers...some stayed behind and reproduced...capstar on the dogs...tape wormed the dogs at 17 $ a pop...they have gone now...KILLED "EM...

I don't think it is possible on this side of the Cosmos to have "too many ducks." I started with 8 semi rescues...card board box on the back of a trailer loaded with all manner of poulty, no food or water, direct sun on a truly sweltering day...handled carelessly and falling from side to side...

I have Brown Chinese, 2 pair of adults purchased as adults...I adore them...I love the honking and the chatter and they are not overly noisey...they fire up when they see something odd...they do not want to be held and it took the a while to realize I was the owner of the water hose and the...

OMG that has got to be one of the cutest things I have ever seen...please don't make me want turkeys!!!! Years ago I did a stupid...I ordered 50, yes, 50, large white turkeys...I was going to raise them and sell them for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners...make a couple of bucks...oh...

I am afraid I would have the idiot who dumped my babies on the porch to be killed by dogs by the throat...I would be squeezing vigorously...how stupid...cold...uncaring...evil...vicious...if he has a beef with you, how does it rationalize out to killing baby chicks? I just don't get it...my...

I have had good luck with MM...Cackle screwed up my Welsummers...got the roo but the six pullets were Brown Leghorns...I ordered 5 White Faced Black Spanish from Ideal in Feb but three of them were pullets...the Ideal order I received last Friday was good...one DOA duckling out of 15 and the 25...

oh yeah...I remember clearly 22 years and 1 month ago that I took my 17 year old son to Jacksonville Florida and gave him to the Army...I still miss him every day...he has been in Europe for the past 4 years...coming him on the 20th of this month and the celebration will begin...you will be in...

I may be late but what the heck? My baby gosling Uno...less three days old waiting for his "tub" to fill and just chattering away at me

What kind of geese are you looking for Ed?

Hi Ed and welcome...what part of N Central Fl are you in? The rain has been awful...we needed it but not all at once...I am tired of five shirt days, wet shoes, running between delushes...hope it improves on your end and mine as well...

I hope they taste better to foxes than chicken...or goose...

thanks you guys...I would not try relocation as it would just be a problem to someone else...iiin the morning I will move my geese to a secure pen and try to shore up the big coop...my son is off tomorrow and he can come help...if I see it, I will shoot it...it can not have my birds...I am over...

I have had my birds for a year now and have delt with hawks and 'possums...nothing more than that...tonight at dusk I looked out to see if my visiting ducks were here and there was a fox standing by the coop...it is dark and too late in the day to do anything other than shut the coop door, walk...

wow! I got my Ideal order today as well...15 Pekin duckling girls and 25 feather legged bantams...I have never had bantams before and I haven't a clue who is who...the feathers will come and they will reveal their identity in time...they are all fiesty and thriving...they came out of the box...