I hope this reaches all the people on backyardchickens.com who were kind enough to contact me about my Ameraucana flock. I did find a home for them. Someone in my own county came and picked them up yesterday. She sent a photo of them out in their new yard, and that was my greatest hope - that...
Thank you. I am keeping track of these offers to take the chickens. Michigan would be a bit of a drive for one of us. I am near the PA border. I have a local person trying her best to finish building a coop by this weekend. Hopefully, she will take them. If not, I will get in touch with...
I'm a little over 2 hours away, so pretty far. The local person who seems to really want my chickens says she'll have the coop done by Friday, so I'm giving her some time, a little reluctantly. I do appreciate everyone who has expressed some interest. Maybe there will be a backup person among...
I need to find a home for my Ameraucana flock of 5 hens and one rooster. I incubator-hatched them last year from Blue Splash and Wheaten eggs that I purchased on eBay. I simply don't have time to care for them as well as I'd like. They need to go to a farm in Northeast Ohio where they can...
Hello,
I live in Ashtabula County and need to find homes for six Ameraucana roosters. They hatched in early June, 2016, and
I've procrastinated about re-homing them. They are beautiful, and I don't have the heart to kill them, but I can't keep them.
I can't find the rules about...
One of my geese hatched three babies last week, and a few days earlier five hatched in my little incubator. Now two geese and two ducks are due any day. My husband said, "At least you don't have chickens on the way!" How could I tell him that two of my little bantam hens were sharing a nest...
I'm really sorry to hear about the little gosling that died. I lost a gosling last night, too. Not a Shetland. I have a Pilgrim goose that I found cold, wet, and nearly dead last spring. She had been cast out of the nest where two others were alive and well. I assumed something was wrong...
Yes, it was easy to tell them apart when they were babies. I've attached a photo. The females were darker -their feathers, beaks and feet. I was incorrect about getting them last year.
It was actually 2012 that they arrived, which explains why they are showing strong nesting instincts this...
I have not had a problem with my Shetlands flying, yet. I didn't realize this could happen!! My Pilgrims are the trouble-makers when it comes to flying.
I have two pairs of Shetlands that I purchased last year from Holderrheads, and I love them. It still amazes me that they could be shipped from Oregon to Ohio, and arrive in such good shape. The two females turned very broody this year. They act as guard geese for my lavender Sebastopol, even...
Hello,
I'm from NE Ohio and I've been raising geese as a hobby for about 6 years. I currently have Pilgrims, Sebastopols, and Shetlands. I love all of them (that's the main problem!), but
breeding season is hard for me, and the next one will be here before I know it. I'm considering...
Hello,
I'm from NE Ohio and I have been raising call ducks for about five years just as a hobby. I'll post photos when I have time, but in the meantime, I'm looking for advice about a
problem I'm having with a female. I found her in the duck yard one day struggling to get up, so I moved...