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Aw I'm so jealous, I really want to raise a couple geese! but it's getting a bit late in the season and so I have no idea where I'd get a gosling(s).

Any crested breed - Polish! Any bearded breed - Ameraucanas/EEs! and any featherlegged breed, eg Cochins.

Cute fat babies! We use regular pine shavings for their litter, I've never had a problem with them trying to eat it if you show them where the feeder is.

newest additions to the brooders, my parents picked up 6 ameraucanas (EEs) while they stopped at the feed store today...they're very fat and heavy!

All of my chicks (that have not been bought directly from feed stores etc.) have been from Ideal. Most recently, my dad ordered a large assortment of bantams plus a few longtail chicks, ducklings and keets; they arrived on the 13th and unfortunately 5 were DOA with several others dying by the...

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@RTFchickens, wow, triplets! I've never experienced that. I'm sorry for your losses. At least this kid survived. I agree, he is adorable!

We weren't even 100% sure that our girl Molly was pregnant until last month, her udders swelled. Later (around Jan. 25th or so?) she started acting so unusual (restless, constantly pawing around, laying down and vocalizing) that we thought for sure she was about to go into labor...but by the...

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Aww no, I'm sorry for your losses :( I hope your other chooks stay safe from this illness, I've never experienced a chicken pooping blood but others on this forum may know what caused it.

It's the most wonderful time of the year besides the holiday season....chick days season!

LOL my mom feels the same, she actually worried that our silkie roo's comb was a "tumor" while he was growing up, says she doesn't like silkies because of that and is disappointed that we ended up with so many in our bantam chick assortment...I think she's crazy though, they're still cute! (I...

:welcome: I joined a little over a week ago and love browsing these forums, I'm sure you'll love it here too! I definitely feel you on the dial-up internet...also live rurally and when we moved here a decade ago we had to have dialup for years because at the time no other services reached us. I...

4 red stars 1 cuckoo marans (possibly a mislabeled barred rock as shes never laid a dark egg...) 2 white faced black spanish bantams 1 dark cornish bantam roo 1 white silkie roo 1 white leghorn roo 1 white frizzle cochin roo LOTS of assorted bantam chicks (cochins, silkies and unidentified)...

that TSC worker sounds like she was either way too overzealous or trying to hardsell you into buying more things, taking advantage of someone new to chicken keeping...im sorry you had to deal with that. For starters, I believe packaged grit isn't necessary for chicks on a commercial feed because...

Thanks for the info and tips! I would definitely want to spend a lot of time with whatever gosling(s) I may end up with, getting them used to human presence/handling. someone on my local Craigslist has a white Chinese up for trade, wanting a rooster...if I could I'd trade them my mean old...

Dad's order of Ideal chicks came in yesterday...5 guineas, 5 ducklings, and NINETY chicks! (75 bantam special, 15 assorted longtail males which were phoenix and sumatra) unfortunately 5 were already DOA and several more died soon after :( The sumatras especially were all sickly on arrival so...

Several years ago, in my first big flock, we had an Australorp hen who was really sweet and would always "squat" on the ground to let people pet her. My brother was in grade school at the time, and since he'd apparently chosen that hen as one of "his" birds, he'd always tell us "Hey, that's my...

Aww. That is similar to what I did when I had rescued a few to-be-culled chicks from a class I was in. After one suddenly got sick and died, I put a small stuffed toy in the brooder box for the other 2 to cuddle against. If you can't get chicks right away I think she'd probably okay if you took...

Thanks for those suggestions, I'm really liking the idea of Russo for him but I'll pass 'em all along to mom! Nero and Russo sounds nice.