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In search of young(ish) peahen for long term relationship with handsome young peacock.... ME: A young peacock (about a year old) just now growing into my looks and full color. Recently rescued from a shelter where I lived in a cement dog kennel. I'm living in the country now, with several...

I've had them for a couple months now (they're almost five months old), but I thought I'd share some pics and a video of these cuties! They're so much fun, I love them!! This was when I brought them home at about 10 weeks -all three fit in my dog's crate! Overcoming shyness with rose...

So I went to pick up some turkey poults from the feedstore -last week they had more than a dozen poults and keets running in a huge brooder tub. Today, you guessed it, there was one bird left. One person I asked said it was a poult, another said it was a keet. I'm totally new to both (wanted to...

Fifi has developed something strange around her injured eye. The past two days it has started to look very swollen and yellow -it doesn't seem to be on the skin (like a growth), but the skin itself. The eye appears fine -no discharge or damage- it's just the skin around it. Most of the original...

My sweet little blue bantam pullet, Sophie, has started acting funny. Yesterday she spent most of the day in the nestbox all fluffed up, and first thing this morning that's where she was -though today she's very grouchy and actually pecked me! She is the bottom girl and is usually very timid and...

1) What type of bird, age and weight. Black bantam Cochin pullet, named Fifi, under a year old, normal weight. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. She was taken by a hawk Friday at dusk -no sign of her all day Saturday despite my hopeful brush-beating- when I let the birds out of the coop this...

I used the applicable questions from the Posting Guidelines, hope it helps! 1) What type of bird, age and weight. The pecker is a Delaware pullet, over 7 months, normal weight, though slightly smaller in build than the others. The victims are two Cuckoo Marans and a Buff Brahma (same sex and...

So I've had my six Magpie ducks for a few months and am just totally in love with them! (don't tell my chickens ) Their coloring is kind of quirky, and I call them my grazing "cow" ducks. They have a ton of personality and are simply a joy to share time and space with. Well I'm a member of a...

After having a terrible day yesterday I was pleasantly surprised this morning during my bird routine -I found the first ever egg! I thought it was too early for anyone to start laying, but the lovely proof fits in the palm of my hand! The oldest three of my six standards are roughly 18 weeks...

Four and a half weeks ago I picked up six Cochin Bantams from the feedstore, making my choice based on day-old chick pics from hatcheries and Feathersite. I wanted two blue, two black (or blue), and two gold laced since these chicks were a "Bantam Chochin assortment" from Ideal and that is what...

LOL, that's what this pile of cochin banties looks like to me -his little harem! I have six chicks that I bought three weeks ago from the feedstore, and I'm pretty sure they got the cochin bantam assortment from Ideal. However, I have no ideal what they are. I'm pretty sure I have two blues...

I just wanted to give a little update on my Magpie ducklings since I've recieved so much help from this wonderful board. A couple weeks ago I posted about my little duckling runt and how she wasn't doing very well (https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5413). Well I followed...

I'm thinning my mixed flock a little and the NHR is the odd one out. I have an offer to buy her (was going to take her to the local feed store), but I have no clue what to ask (having never bought a grown chicken). I'm in the CA Bay Area, bought her as a day-old chick for $2, and she's a nice...

The feedstore just got a huge assorted batch of these tiny little delights and I couldn't resist taking three home! I wanted to scoop up whole handfuls of them, but I'm pretty impressed with my self-restraint -though we'll see what happens tomorrow... I tried to do the feather sexing to get...

I have some Magpie ducklings but am thinking of getting one or two more to keep them company. I could get two more magpies, but they'd be at least three weeks younger than my pair -would that be too tough on them? And if I can't get Magpies I was thinking of Pekins -would they be okay together...

I just went out to check in on my Magpie trio and the littlest one looked dead! She was flattened out and her head was on it's side. She picked her head up when I touched her, but couldn't seem to get up. When I picked her up her legs couldn't even kick and she wouldn't stretch her neck out...

I went to a different feedstore today to see if they had duck feed for my week-and-a-half Magpie ducklings, and was met with a terrible sight. Out on the baking pavement (were in a serious heatwave in the CA bay area) was a tiny pen crammed with Pekin ducks! They were nearly cheek-to-jowl in...

You may remember her from this thread... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4334 But look at her now! She's been perky, eating and drinking well, and running around with her two buddies for the last two days now. I am so thankful she's better! And thank you again to...

Well I've been spending way too much time online reading about ducks and pouring over all my poultry books, but it'll pay off for these little guys (I hope)! They arrived just this morning at the feedstore (from Ideal) and I ran over to get my pick before they were all gone. I think they only...

Looks like everyone in the "other poultry" section has caught duck fever lately! And I'm one of them! A few of my semi-local feedstores are getting some ducklings next week and I am really, reallllllllllly tempted to get a few. Three probably, no more. (is that a good number?) I haven't...