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    Is it a good idea to get goslings for our bonded pair of female geese.

    I wish that had been my experience with trying to have my girls raise goslings that they didn’t hatch. All of mine would as soon attack them as look at them. Emdens are particularly broody geese. Mine won’t sit if I collect eggs daily. They are in an enclosure so I have no issue finding new...
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    Geese food

    Mazuri waterfowl starter or a good duck pellet should have enough niacin that you won’t need to supplement a tone of stuff. At 5 weeks they need to be grazing on pasture already.
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    How to introduce a single gosling to a group of older and bigger ducklings?

    I’m late to the party and wish I had a better experience to share but ducks, especially drakes can be jerks and worse so during laying season. I still have to separate one of my drakes from my geese even after years of sharing an enclosure and growing up together. Unfortunately, I think it...
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    We just accidentally ordered from The Chick Hatchery. Anyone have experience with them?

    Wanted to chime in here in case anyone checks out the thread. I ordered guinea keets. They shipped the a month and a half early with ZERO warning. I had to cancel a planned trip so I would be home when they arrived. 90% of my order was the wrong color. They sent white keets. I never order...
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    Are your geese still laying?

    One of my Pilgrim hens stopped for over two weeks and has now resumed. She’s laid six in a week. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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    New Goose Owner here! Am I doing okay? ALSO WEIRD BEHAVIOUR I NEED HELP EXPLAINING !!

    Plut0, Gilbert is adorable!!!!! I know the mouth opening has been addressed so I’ll go into the rest of your post. Have you been able to get her ( that’s my opinion from the color if it were an embden. I know zip about the Africans.) on a waterfowl feed yet? I know it was short term for you...
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    What sex 7 week old geese

    At this age vent sexing or waiting for an egg is about the only option. Gorgeous geese though!
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    cutest chicken names!

    one of mine is named Russell Crow(e). He's a handsome boy too!
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    Previously Healthy Chicken Now Can't Stand and Falls Backwards and Doesn't Move

    Does you hen free range? Does she have any unidentifiable marks on her skin? (I know it's tough to look under every feather). Does she EAT her grit? (Crazy question I know but I have grit everywhere and have still lost birds to impacted gizzards). Do you have roosters? And maybe I missed it...
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    103 degrees today....overheated hens

    Home Depot sells a small misting fan that sits over a 5 gallon bucket very cheaply. That could help. Also, I raise rabbits which are much less heat tolerant than chickens and there are days that my buns just have to go into the garage as it's easier to cool. I have a portable ac that I hook...
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    Faverolles Thread

    I hatched a small batch of LF SF's from a very reputable breeder with great stock. One of the chicks is yellow, 5 toes, feathered legs as usual. Everything about the bird says SF to me except the two black dots on his forehead and the four chipmunk stripes down his back??????? He was the last...
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    Worst. Hatch. Ever.

    Dry hatching doesn't work as well for me. I find that 30-35% during the first stages and then 70-74% (yep, 75% is too wet for my setup/location/ I don't know why the heck). Really I shoot for 72%. I think your humidity in the 50s during lockdown is likely your culprit for your late stage...
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    Never had this happen, a little help please

    I have thought about trying quail when I get enough room or pheasants maybe. Only once before this have I ever not hatched 100%. I do my hatches a little differently than what I read from most people and so far it works well for me. I hope your chicken luck changes! My cull roos and hens go...
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    Never had this happen, a little help please

    They were dead in egg. Looked like they quit day 20. Understand that I'm not selling birds this year and these eggs were enormously important to my breeding program. Had I tossed after 24 hours I would be shy two birds. I've never had them hatch so far apart before, had no idea they would. The...
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    Never had this happen, a little help please

    I had 10 eggs due to hatch on Thursday 4/24. 8 shipped eggs that made it to lockdown plus two of my own. (I do that as a test to determine if it's me or the eggs. If mine hatch, probably it was the incubator's fault if I get no hatch from the shipped eggs) At lockdown everyone was kicking and...
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    Silkie thread!

    Silkies SHOULD have feathered feet. TSC orders their birds from hatcheries, usually Ideal poultry in my area. With hatchery chicks, you will often get less toes, or bad feathering, bad coloration or all of the above, not always, but very often. There are some awesome pics of day old chicks...
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    can you train a dog to not hurt your chickens?

    It never ceases to amaze me WHAT a dog will teach itself. My rough collie came here as a 1-2 year old 35 POUND starving animal. I don't know why she was roaming around starved or what broke her hip or how she ended up on my property in that condition. She may have had prior herding training or...
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    Silkie thread!

    I thought near chatanooga. I used to spend a lot of time in Cleveland at the arena. I remember seeing signs for it driving through to Bama. Were almost neighbors!
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    Silkie thread!

    I'm in Ellijay. I've only been here 2 years originally a swamp rat from SC. I kinda think I know where Trenton is. :D:/. Lol
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