Looking for black copper and wheaten marans roosters, at least a month old or so. Located in South, Ga. Im ok with having them shipped express if necessary though. Must be from good decently dark egg stock though.
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The title is basically my question. Everyone who has ducks knows that ducks can turn a water dish into a mud puddle in a matter of minutes, are geese the same way or since they are more more of a vegatarian than ducks, do they not rumage through the dirt and collet mouthfuls of dirt that...
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I have a friend who custom builds incubators and he is currently building one specifically for chuckar eggs, and the design is for each turning try to hold 2 stacked 59 egg chuckar flats and he is needing to know the height of the these stacked trays from the bottom of the first tray to the...
hi. I bought 5 turkey poults at an auction this weekend and I'm assuming that they're bronze and around 3 weeks old all 5 of them have white feather tips and I have heard that bronze based females hae white feather tips and males have black but I was wondering if they can be sexed this early or...
Im noticing that in my 2-3 week old Royal Palm poults that some are getting their black markings in and some are still staying mostly solid white and I was wondering if this any indication of their gender or does it just vary regardless of the sex?
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Like the title says, will coturnix quail eat or otherwise harm planted veggies ( both plants and the actual fruits) or will they live peacefully with the plants and scratch along the ground and help with insect control?
I have an old covered pen that i haven't used for birds in a couple...
I am planning on getting 3 goose eggs but I've never seen one in person so I don't know how big they actually are. Would a bantam cochin hen be able to cover 3 or at least 2 ?
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For those of you who haven't taken the time to read the blog section on Metzers website, I recommend doing so. I just read through it and it has a lot of good information in there. I was particularly glad to read the info on how to tell which ducks are laying and the effects on production costs...
Hey Australorp keepers, I want to hear some production stats from your personal experience with with this breed. I know the bit about the record setting Australorp hen that's been in the mcmurray catalog for years, but are they all high producers like that in general ? Id like to know roughly...
I'm trying to figure out how goose breeding pens would need to be set up. If the pens are side by side with only wire separate ing them, will ganders still try to fight with each other through the fence or would I need dividers that they can't see through ?
Or will two ganders tolerate each...
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I realize that muscovies will sometimes nest in trees and other high places of their choosing when they are allowed to range, but I wanting to keep a pen of them just for brooding other waterfowl so they would be enclosed it a pen I would to build them a small building with stacked nested...
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Have any of you had any experience with Jumbo Pekins like Metzer and McMurray sell ? Id love to see some pics and to hear about how fast they grow and how much feed it took to get them to eatting since and anything else about them thats notable to share .
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I'm hoping this year to start building up an army of muscovy broodies and I was wondering if they start laying and brooding in their first year like mallard derived ducks, or does it take two years on them ?
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Im looking for some potential sources you buy some Austrailian Spotted duck eggs and some BIBBED DUSKY Hookbill eggs from in the spring. I know Holderreads has them but they only sell ducklings in an assortment of all three colors and I really only wanting the Bibbed Duskies.
I may be...
I have a batch of Bourbon Red Turkey eggs that will need to go out the beginning of next week. They buyer I had lined up for them had to have surgery and is unable to take this batch so I am offering them here for $45 with shipping included. I have 10 now and am now getting one or two eggs a...
I have heard that some quail go by a few different names and these look the same to me and I just wanted to check and make sure ?
Manchurians same as Italians ????
Tibetians same as Brittish Range ???
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I am hopeing to start raising some quail soon and I was talking to my aunt today about it and she asked if i would be killing and cleaning/dressing them and then selling them or selling them live and I had originally planned on selling them live but I told her that I would dress them and all...