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Hi Everyone, I acquired a yearling pair of Opal peas around Easter weekend, beautiful fat and healthy looking pair, good feather, heavy as bricks and spunky. Had them quarantined away from my other Peafowl for a month, then added them into the pen beside my Midnight BS Trio. They seemed to...

Hi everyone, as the title says, I am perplexed by very broody goose, thing is she has never laid a single egg this year...... In 20 yrs of keeping domestic geese this is a first. Does that sometimes happen, do I have to worry? Will this girl ever lay eggs or just be a cranky nippy...

Hi everyone, I am just trying to understand how Pastel works when it comes to breeding Muscovies. How does it get inherited, dominant, recessive etc etc. Have 1 Pastel Lilac Pied Drake to work with and Lilac, Blue, Choc(both single and double factor) and Black hens I can cross him over. How...

Looking for a Source in Canada of Partridge Silkie Hatching eggs for when the weather permits shipping of such. Preferably more the bearded exhibition type. Prefer the nice dark type(black chest in roos etc), not Smutty Reds or Dirty Buffs. If I can't find a Canadian source and if there are...

Hey everyone, I have been breeding scovies for over 9 yrs now in most colours available in Canada(Black, Chocolate, Blue and the occasional Fawn). Well this year out of 50 + Ducklings, I raised 4 whos colour I cannot name, 3 I would call lavenders maybe but one of them has some dark brown...

Hi everyone, my 5 yr old black shldr blue male has been breathing funny for a while, he takes big gulps of air. Otherwise he acts his normal self, showing off, coming for treats etc. Havent heard him call at all this year tho, but he never was very vocal so I never wondered about it. Caught...

Hey Everyone, Its been three years since I incubated my last turkey eggs and my hen has been laying for about 4 weeks now so I have been a collecting fool trying to get enough poults so I can send that Tom of mine to freezer camp(he is a nasty bugger). Well, I seem to have lost my turkey...

As the title says, what would I get out of crossing Purple and Lavender(other then more purple and lavs)? Havent had guineas for 4 yrs and seen 4 - august hatched juvies- for sale for $30 for all and couldnt say no........ the lady i got them from didnt know what genders they were(her first...

Hi Everyone, I m not so familiar with how buff acts crossed with other colours, and by the looks of the chicks that hatched from my buff Leghorn hen she flew the fence into the Black/Blue Breasted Red Leghorn Pen at some point . Most of them seem to be buff with varying degrees of stripping...

My Buff leghorn hen hid away a nest on me or I wouldnt let her brood this late in the season. Finally found it about 2 weeks into it so let her keep the eggs. She is an acceptional mother so why not. Well the nest was off the ground(elevated feed trough in the old barn) and first chick that...

...... its getting rediculous now. I have been hatching since november, brought all my Coturnix in the house and seperated into breeding pens to get the most colours. Its a full house to say the least(1 room cabin). Plan was hatch lots, keep all females as replacements and keep a few males as...

Hi everyone, just wondering if anyone has any tips on pricing out birds? In this case purebred Red Leg Partridges? I have a trio for sale(last years hatch) but no clue what to charge for them....... got a serious mental block on that one. Especially because they may be the only purebred...

Hi Everyone, got by accident a red golden pheasant hen 4 days ago. My neighbour called telling me their friends that live right in the middle of town, had a pheasant follow their car into their garage..... and let their little kids pick it up and carry around(I know doesn't really sound like a...

My little Ruddy Shelducklings have been living in our garden in our old dog kennel for almost a month now. Yesterday I decided to open their door and let them explore under supervision and mingle with the various other waterfowl that roams our yard. That went really well, they found our little...

Hi everyone. I got a pair of juvenile Ruddy Shelducks from a good friend yesterday. They are 3 weeks apart in age. The supposed male(I can vent sex waterfowl but I am by no means 100%accurate and he had them sexed by another breeder who says it is male, I say female... i guess we"ll see) is...

Well my title says it all, what will I get with a Red Headed Golden Coturnix Male over Silver Range/Silver Tux Coturnix Hens? Any Colour gurus out there who could give me an idea on the outcome? Got a couple eggs from that cross in the bator and am really excited to see what I get. I have the...

Hi there, I got a 4 yr old breeding pair of Reeves about 2 weeks ago. Just wondering if the change of ownership was too late in the season and they wont lay/breed this year? So far they are still very upset with me and I made peace with the thought that they are taking this year off but a...

Hi All, I bought a lone Blackneck Male at an auction on easter weekend. After deworming/debugging him I released him in his new home and noticed he staggered like drunk. At the time I though dehydration because his box only had a food cup and no water cup and he was in there for about 3 days...

Well, I aquired this silkie cockeral a couple weeks ago. He was advertised as a partridge(no pics, but wasn't really picky just wanted to hatch some broodies). But he was so far away an aquaintance of mine picked him up on her way through there, and dropped it off at a friends house. Both my...

My one and only BLRW hen has somehow gotten Pnemonia, looks healthy otherwise, eats and drinks fine and seems to be a decend weight just is having a really though time breathing. What meds are out there that would be good to use? The powdered stuff for in the water our feed store offers doesn't...