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This little guy is 5 weeks old. I'm not sure if that's too early, but I don't think it is, since I had three other d'Uccles who had *huge* red combs at 4 weeks which I already rehomed. They looked nothing like my obvious pullet... but then there's this one. I thought it was a roo at first but...

So, I posted for input a little while ago about the two pairs of geese I have coming from Metzers at the beginning of April. Thanks to the responses, I have started building the future goose house so that the two pairs can be kept separate at night. I would just like to make sure my plans are...

Does anyone have any pictures of Silkies (preferably white ones) that *haven't* been recently bathed and blowdried? I have an order of white Silkies coming next month and I'm starting to wonder if they're just going to be wretched little mud balls or if there's hope for them to look Silkie-ish...

I have raised a lot of bantams and a lot of standard chicks, but this is the first time I've brooded them together. I know the bantams always seem to take longer to grow, but I'm just struck by how truly massive the standards are whereas the bantams are still super tiny, like so: They are...

So... I have this chick that I initially thought was part of the d'Uccle bantam assortment I ordered from Ideal, but as it grows up I start doubting that more. It has always been MUCH larger than the other d'Uccles from the assortment, and now it's so big that it looks like a small standard...

One of my strongest memories of brooding chickens in the past is how badly the brooders smelled. I always either used wire cages with a tray for droppings (like a rabbit cage) or sawdust/wood chips in the past, but since it was about 10 years ago, I no longer remember the exact details. I just...

So I finally bit the bullet and ordered 4 geese -- a Buff pair and a Tufted Buff pair. :) But then I started wondering if there will be issues raising two pairs in the same area or not. Will the males fight if they are raised together and each has a female (they pair off naturally, right?)...

I hope this isn't a really dumb question that has been answered many times and I just haven't seen it! I have this idea in my head to maybe try to make up a little feed money by selling point of lay pullets down the road, but this NPIP stuff is really confusing and intimidating to me. It was...

I know I will wind up with roosters I don't want from my st. run bantams, and I had the idea that it would be nice to get a little feed money by selling some point of lay pullets down the road. But then I hit an obstacle... where exactly do I advertise them? I know BYC has a sales section, but...

I have been searching through old threads on this forum, and I have found two things: 1) Lots of people say it's okay to brood chicks on sand, and 2) Lots of people suggest giving chicks sand as grit. So... when I get my chicks, I would *really* like to be able to use sand in their brooder...

Okay, so! I have owned geese in the past, but I've never kept them past a year or so. My yard was also much less "wild" (i.e. grown in) when I owned them. I never had a goose lost to predators, but I used to have terrible problems with foxes taking ducks and chickens. I hear coyotes howling...

I miss hatching eggs and am considering getting a few this year just for fun, even if I wind up selling most of the babies. lol I am mostly interested in D'uccles, but other bantams are of interest to me as well. Unfortunately, my Google-fu is failing me and I can't find many D'uccle eggs from...

Hello everyone! :) I have been pouring over this website for a good month now, so I finally decided to make an account and jump into the community! I am not new to poultry... but it's been 8 or so years since I've owned any, so it all feels new again! I used to have a huge flock of ducks...