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What am I likely to get if my Chinese gander and white embden goose successfully breed?

I'm going to butcher four white pekin ducks this weekend. I want to make some sausages. I have experience making sausage from pork and chicken. Does anyone have a good recipe they'd like to share?

Take the heart, gizzard, liver and some lean trimmings from the carcass in the Cuisinart with some salt, garlic, allspice, cold butter and a shot of dry vermouth. Pulse until minced but not overly smooth to make a forcemeat. Stuff it in the skin of the neck. Roast in a hot oven until fully...

So the grass has stopped growing at Funkhaus Farm and we've been keeping our geese in the pen for the most part due to the increased predator activity in winter. They will eat cracked corn but they are not enthusiastic about it, and they really don't care for bagged crumbles. What they really...

I got my first half dozen chicks (ISA Browns) in February, lost 3 and added 6, so now I have 9. The three older ones are laying an egg a day each virtually every day. The new ones are not laying yet. I built an 8x8 walk-in coop with 12 or 14 built-in nest boxes and a good sized fenced run. I...

I got two hatchlings from a bin marked "Toulouse Geese" at Rural King about a month ago. Although their plumage is similar, one has a black beak and the other's is yellow. Is this a variation within the breed or do I have two different breeds?

I just wrapped up my first attempt at raising ducks and it was pretty pathetic. If you are very sensitive you might want to stop reading now. Near the end of May I was in Rural King and saw that they had ducks. I'd been thinking about raising up a half dozen or so for butchering. I read that...

About 6 weeks ago I was in Rural King buying stuff for my hens and noticed they had a brooder full of ducklings. I asked the clerk for a half dozen white pekins because I thought I'd try raising them up for meat. Well, it turns out what she thought were pekins are in fact runners. I'm a little...

How can you tell? Mine are a few days short of six weeks but still have quite a bit of brown on their cheeks and breasts.

I've got five ISAF brown pullets about twelve weeks old, down from six after one died suddenly on Easter. My coop is mostly complete and I'm thinking about adding a half dozen pekin duckings to butcher. Any advice would be appreciated.