Who has runner ducks, sells eggs or ducklings? Or know anyone in the piedmont area?
Just getting my toes wet on the idea, haven't gotten myself completely sold, I haven't decided if I want runners or muscovy IF IF IF i do agree (submit to the boyfriend) and get ducks...LOL
Ramirez I had a lot going on this time last year, and a storm that come through damaged one section of my pens, so I stopped breeding when I had everyone mixed together. That made things even more stressful and decided it was best for me and the birds to take a break. I sold my show and breeding...
That USED to be the case. That you needed an MG testing, and a health certificate, until like 2 years ago...They are only strict on importing birds for show in the state of VA, then you have to do some hoop jumping (I know I live RIGHT on the VA line, and still have to go through it all the 2...
Yup I'm still kicking! I'm actually bird-less at the moment, have been since Summer. Is SO weird. Looking to possibly start again, but not rushing anything. But you guys keep an eye out of some D'uccles and LF cochin for me
Actually VA is one of the lesser strict state now! Just need to get a paper signed and faxed back to them once a year...On the other hand Georgia, Kentucky, and a couple other states have been cracking down on shipping birds into them. VA only requires you get a permit paper from them, send to...
Pretty confident in saying henley is a girl and not diluted, so she is regular partridge, not blue partridge. Blue partridge have blue instead of any black, they have a softer blue underfluff and the gold is usually more dilute (paler/lighter).
this time of year is not the time to add young chicks.
Hens usually only take new chicks to raise when they are broody (even just a couple days a silkie will happily take chicks placed under her at night) but some hens occassionaly have such a strong mothering instinct they'll just randomly...
farmstore - definitely not usually vaccinated. Ask the store manager, but unless the state laws mandate they aren't going to pay the extra $$ to have them vaccinated probably.
Hatchery - many give you the option to have your chicks vaccinated for 10-50 cents each. but your responsibility to...
Were the girls submitting to the roosters? (Squatting for them, so the boys don't seem like they are 'raping' the girls against their wills?) If they are agreeable to the males attentions they are okay to be together. I would suggest splitting your girls up 2-3 girls to each boy. 2 boys in a pen...
Frizzled X your current cochins will give you roughly 50/50
Do not breed a frizzle X frizzle you can breed smooth birds from frizzle breedings to an actual frizzle and thats OK - just not 2 actual frizzles to one another, creates bad feathering, even nakedness.
As for the polish, if you cross...
It is not the marinading that does the coloration. Trust me. It is the genetics behind the silkies that do it - the melanization that makes the skin, meat, and bones dark. I have butchered and cleaned a few evil silkie roosters from my flock for asian friends (after a couple years swearing I...
A rooster who is human aggressive has no need to be in a flock. If night security is your worry no amount of protective rooster is going to be worth a darn at night. The roo is sleeping at night and they are as easy a victim as a hen in the dark. They will sit there on their roost and just wait...
#1 production red of some kind
#2 Looks like an Easter Egger
#3 Roo - no idea, some kind of mix most likely
#4 no picture shown - but white bird with white eggs probably a white leghorn
#5 Barred Rock pullet
#6 A mix, if I had to guess a SL wyandotte mixed rooster going by the chest & neck...