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I moved to Western Massachusetts, where there are smaller houses and bigger yards. I plan to build a home and actually get to raising ducks, etc.

I really don't know much about pigeons, but I know that you found a really lucky one - without your help, an Alberta winter without flying would be very long.

I thought once I heard that live mealworms have powerful jaws/mandibles, and can hurt animals that eat them, by chopping at their stomach lining from within. I'd heard something about cutting off live mealworm's heads before feeding them to avoid this. I don't actually know if this is just a...

Genesis1, One good thing about working to re-select for egg laying ability is that you know that among your Black Australorp's chicken's ancestors the ability, and the genetic diversity for that ability, existed. In other words, one can get stuck trying to select an apple from a box of oranges...

This thread's been very interesting. I imagined trapnests wouldn't let a bird out. I wonder if the approach would work for laying ducks. Thanks, Manoz, and sorry about all your losses over these years. I imagine it's even a worse setback to lose a bird you know the production of. Is there...

I rent a room in an neighborhood of big-ish houses and small lots, so I may stick with reading and dreaming about Miniature Golden Cascades and Mini Geese. But in my dreams, there's a flock of egg-laying ducks and guard geese grazing happily in a pen bigger than my landlady's yard.

How small a pen could a pair of mini-geese be happy in? Would geese be happier eating rabbit chow than layer mash?