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My pair of Pilgrim Geese hatched three eggs this spring, (their first year!), one died (the male) so they have two remaining females who are about 7-8 weeks old now.... I would like to trade someone with pilgrims for unrelated females.... if I can't find anyone that I would like to sell for...

95 under the light..... they don't appear either too cold or too hot..... (crowded or spread way out)....and they've got plenty of room to go out further if they want. I lost 6 total.... i'm down to 9..... keeping my fingers crossed as it's been an entire night and day without losing one...

Not a stupid question at all....but a valid one :) Yes, it is 28% Turkey and Gamebird starter. So far I have 9 holding in there....... Hoping it gets better from here .....

I got 15 poults from Strombergs on Thursday, started them on a 28% medicated grower made sure everyone was drinking and included a vitamin/electrolyte solution in the water (approved for turkeys). Saturday one died, yesterday 3 died and one died last night. They all appear active and healthy...

Thanks for letting me know that at least I'm not alone! I haven't done anything for the drake other than kept him comfortable. He healed well the last time without intervention. He absolutely hates contact and it seems to cause him more stress to be handled. He just flips out. Why he was so...

About a month ago my pilgrim gander nearly killed my cayuga drake. He put a silver dollar sized hole in his back. The drake, gander, goose and 5 other cayuga ducks all arrived together from the hatchery and have been raised together. They shared a 12 x 12 horse stall at night and had access...

Thanks All, they're not exactly white, more of a pale mottled gray/green, but such a light hue that I think white would pass over brown to them. I tried golf balls on my buckeye chickens and no dice. I had to go with the ceramic brown eggs from McMurray. they just don't have a duck size egg.

I want to encourage them to keep laying in the nest area. Not taking all the eggs seems to help and it's less stressful for them. They get rather flustered when I just walk off with their babies... .... this way they come in and think everything is status quo. And I get eggs for baking...

My cayuga ducks have just started laying and I want to remove the eggs but also want to leave some artificial ones that look similiar to theirs in the same spot. They are a bit larger than chicken eggs and lighter in color. I can't seem to find any duck sized fake eggs on line. Anyone have a...

I am having quite an issue with my 6 cayuga ducks making holes (pretty good ones!) in the ground around their pool (kiddie pool) and waterer. If I move them, they make more holes with their beaks, and then splash water in them and just make them deeper. Should I fill the holes with sand or...

I got some like that in my batch too, I have one buckeye who doesn't even look like any of the other 17 buckeyes... she's mostly white and tan so far. Mine were different sizes because they clearly were different ages (some with wing feathers some without) when I received them.

I have a buckeye chicken approximately 5 weeks of age, in with 17 other chicks of the same age and 8 guinea fowl in a well ventilated coop with shavings for bedding, just on grass as of yesterday. These were from a breeder flock and there have never been chickens on the property prior. I...

Finally got the remaining birds settled in their new coop.... I had a question about behavior. They are of course THRILLED to be out of their box, but I noticed a handful of birds do what I can only describe as a "chest bumping thing" they go right on to another bird full speed and they bump...

On the newbie side/perspectiveof the hatchery/breeder issue , it would be nice to able to supplement straight run shipments if you end up needing more females, etc. My original hope was to have a good size flock of hens and 2-3 roosters.... however when you order straight run and have a...

Yes the same with McMurray.....I ordered mine in January! and they still didn't have enough. If someone does have goslings they think they can ship safely I would pay for overnight shipping and any necessary packaging.

I am in Bloomfield, NY.... if anyone ends up with a batch....

I had ordered six pilgrims from McMurray and was only sent 2. They credited me, but I am now shortand everyone is sold out. I think I got lucky and got a male and a female, but I was really hoping for at least one more breeding pair. Anyone out there having anything for sale? I am located in...

Thanks Dave, I appreciate it greatly. Was beginning to wonder if I had made the right breed choice and I had really had my heart set on the buckeyes. The suspect one did die during the night. I see everyone else up drinking and moving about. I'm enclosing a link to a web album showing my...