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hmmm, maybe I'll go and dig up a trailer full of coarse sand from the back end of the farm once the rain stops and put down a couple of more inches. I have no dobt that the majority of the mud wallows was from excavating the place over the last two days. I'll be glad when they can be in their...

I have been out 8 hours a day for the last 2 weeks while trying to enclose their new forage area. Sigh, there are days I need to clone myself.

I was reluctant about the straw because of the mold issue. Usually they are out to graze but I need to finish securing the area against predators. The straw has been a last resort since I have never had this kind of drainage problems before (we're pretty sandy here) I'm starting to think...

hi all. With all the cold rain we have been getting here the chickens and ducks have turned their pens into mud wallows. Normally they are let out to forage on a lager area, but because their large pens are not completed, and we have had predator attacks in the last month, they have been...

I was told they are around 7 months. Brought them home a week ago and through an accident they were allowed into the pen with the other birds earlier than I hoped. They seem to be quite docile, and are still afraid of me but are starting to warm to the idea that I'm not a predator. I was also...

thankyou. Around here when you ask the "older" farmers what they have you just get told "geese", "chickens" or "ducks. I figured they were American and not the British version. L

thanks.. He's a big puppy and my Emo duck

HI all. I was in need to a couple more females for my flock and found some buff geese for sale in my area. (All the tolouse or african females were 2 hours+ away). Being new to the breed, I wanted to know if I found some nice birds and what is their exact breed? (They don't seem to be...

Thing 4 (potentially being re-named Chocolate) Thing 1 Thing 3 and 4 (kidlet is trying to rename them Vanilla and Chocolate) Well, we managed to finally get some photos of the 2 new ducks, though our origional female descided to go off with the Pekins . . . she looks very similar to...

sigh. I bought 2 new ones the saturday and am still trying to get pics of them. Too skitish to get near.