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can a brahma cross end up with very sparsely feathered legs... 3 of the four chickens we managed to hatch this year are very clearly the offspring of Rocky, our buff brahma roo... full feathering on the legs, clear pea or pea/single comb, and take after him in build too... but the one pullet is...

did a search for a pekin thread, cause I want to post some more pics of our ducks in it, and low and behold, I couldn't find one(except for the chicken one, that is)... I guess a lot of people consider them to be "plain" or "boring" (I know my GF's dad does, he tells us that every time we talk...

having some difficulties telling our ducks sex by their sound... we are rather certain our two older ones are hens, because they were by themselves for a while and we know they both "Quack", rather loudly, at that, but after we added the younger three to the flock, it seems if one is making...

Are there any guidelines for selecting for better production(meat and/or eggs) in ducks, kinda like the ones that the ALBC has for chickens?...

what is the ideal type of feeder for ducks?.. the chick feeders work great for a while, but our older two ducks have difficulties eating out of that type of feeder...we tried giving them a couple different types of chicken feeder we have laying around, but the feed gets wet and clogs the feeder...

here are some pics of our roughly 1 month old pekins today was their first day outside, in the pen that will be their home till I can build something better

Yay!.. I haven’t seen them yet, they are over at my GF's family’s place till this weekend when we can go get them... her dad was complaining that our 4 pekins are bigger and more energetic than his cayugas and runners(blues, IIRC)... I guess that when they run around the brooder, they knock the...

back when I was a kid, my grandma taught me how to butcher, clean, and roast a duck... one of the things that sort of stuck out was that she showed me how to very carefully remove the preen gland, or "oil gland" as she called it, with a razor blade, as apposed to cutting it off with the tail...

has anyone ever used a vinyl kiddie pool(non inflating type) as a in ground pond liner... my GF and I had been pricing pond stuff at various places, and were a little dismayed at the projected price of the endeavor... then I see this little, 96 gal, 60" dia, 10" deep vinyl kiddie pool at family...

I get home from work last night, and go over to see my parents, and my dad starts asking me about what we are feeding our ducklings, and a bunch of other questions about them, which I thought was somewhat odd, since he never really showed much interest in them till yesterday... turns out that...

my GF an I have decided that our ducks are going to get a little pond when we build their pen, so I was wondering how big/deep I would have to make the pond for the 3(one pekin drake and 2 pekin hens) or 4(we might be getting a cayuga hen, too)ducks that we will keep?...also what sort of...

I am going to need to build a couple of new houses for my birds( one for ducks, and another for a some bantams who's odds I suspect wouldn't be so great out with our larger birds)... I am planning on using pallets for materials, since I think I may be able to get some from my work, or if not, I...

I noticed one of my hens limping last night, so I picked her up and found a nasty abscess, from a puncture wound, on the bottom of her one foot... felt kinda crappy for not spotting it sooner... after consulting a home/farm vet reference book we have, I removed the object that apparently caused...

my GF's uncle has a pair of toulouse geese(nice looking birds) and I was hoping to snag a couple of hatching eggs from him, but he told me that the female won't get in the water so the male can breed her... is this true... can geese only breed if they are swimming?... it sounds a bit off to me...

mods, if you feel this belongs somewhere else, feel free to move it... just wondering, what are some crazy chicken myths that persist in your area... old wives tales and such that are still widely accepted as true, even though they are not... one of my favorites, first told to me by a...

last friday I picked up 2 pekins at a local farm market, and today I went in on an order from Mcmurray with my GF's dad for 4 more(he's getting cayugas and runners, 5 each)... anyone have any experience with their pekins?.. I know its a little late to ask, since the order is already in, but I...

in the aftermath of our worst hatch ever(only 2 out of 36 set on 3/11), I zipped over to Frog Pond on my lunch break and picked up these lil'meepers.... got 3 buff orp pullets and two pekin ducks in a box on my desk... our sales manager already went all mushy over them( she really wants some...

ok, so I have been doing research on ducks in anticipation of getting some this year, and got to thinking(a vice, like philosophy, that I really should give up in favor of a more socially acceptable one... especially considering I am not particularly good at either;), historically speaking, how...

just a question that popped up in conversation recently... what are the last five new breeds that were admitted to the APA, and when were they admited... not breeds that had been recognized elsewhere for years or been around for a long time before the APA decieded to admit them... I mean breeds...

Frog Pond Farms, the place were my GF and I buy our chicks, opened today... and I work less than 2 miles away, and today was payday... it was so tough not to come back from lunch with a box'o'chooks... I think the only reason I didn't was because I know we are going on sunday to get some ... yay....