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Thanks very much, I appreciate your help! I have very little experience myself. I'm just trying to figure it out--what can be figured out, anyway. :) Genetics are so fascinating.

This thread was helpful to me too!! I currently have a pair of whites, and I have a lot of questions about the whole color-carrying thing. I hope this is a good place to ask a couple of them! I've heard that any amount of gray on a white Sebastopol (presumably an adult and not a juvenile) is a...

Thanks! I’ll make some phone calls.

Thanks! I tried to look it up on the VT agriculture website, but so far haven’t gotten anywhere. I’m hoping that if it is a law, it doesn’t apply to breeders. Thanks for your help!

Can anyone tell me whether Vermont really has a law that says one cannot sell less than 6 chicks/ducklings/etc.? I’m considering hatching ducklings to sell as day-olds next spring, and I need to know if this law exists and whether it would apply to me. Or is this a Federal law? Thanks for...

It’s true, there does seem to be a lack of books on keeping geese! My first book on them was “Keeping Geese: Breeds and Management” by Chris Ashton. She’s British, so not all the recommendations for feed/medication are quite relevant. I love the book, though! Great info. There’s another book by...

Cool! I have some fresh and some frozen blueberries. Maybe I’ll toss a few in their water bucket or in with their lettuce treat and see what happens....

Thank you. Good to know!

Thanks so much for sharing! Those things are good to know. I have no idea whether my gander would eat blueberries or not, but maybe I’ll try it! Thanks very much for the good wishes.

Thanks! I'm glad your gander got better! It is really weird when one goose acts unwell and the other is fine. At the moment, my gander, Ivan, is still moving/eating almost like normal. @Goosebaby mentioned kidney problems/gout earlier in this thread. I strongly suspect that my gander had gout...

Thank you for the info.!

Hello, I know this thread is older, but I wanted to reply to it because I have a gander who is by all appearances doing the exact same thing! Firstly, it’s wonderful that your Bailey got better! Would you be willing to share what “treatment” you did for him? Or did he just get better on his...

Thank you very much for the info.! I'll head over to FB and check out both of those groups!

Yeah, I’ve been thinking about the distance, but it sounded like their birds don’t spend any longer in the mail than the chicks that my family always ordered from McMurray (which is in Iowa or something, I believe). There is always some risk, for sure!

Thanks for the ideas! It's good to hear that you are happy with your birds from Metzer farms. I've been considering getting some from them. Just a few more plants to put to bed before the snow really takes over....

Hello fellow Vermonters! I’m new to this thread. I’m wondering if anyone knows of a quality Welsh Harlequin duck breeder in VT? I’m hoping to place an order/get on somebody’s waiting list for some ducklings in the spring of 2021. I’m in southern VT.

Good ideas! Thanks! And thanks for sharing the pic — so sweet!

Thank you! Personal experience is exactly what I'm looking for! There don't seem to be many WH breeders here in southern Vermont, but maybe I just haven't found them yet.... I did check out the Livestock Conservancy website and found a few breeders in the general New England area that I can...

Thank you! What sweet girls you have!! It's so helpful to look at pics of other's birds. I'm trying to get a feel for the range of what WHs can look like.

Thank you so much for the info! I’m sorry I hadn’t replied yet! Do you have any photos of your birds (if you’re okay with sharing them)? I’m very curious about how the birds from different hatcheries might come out color-wise.