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[HeritageGoose13]

Alright, time for Group 3. I got lots of pictures of these geese. They are all very pretty.


You can see they are too close to the road. I went around the other side of them, so that if they ran away from me, they would run deeper into the park and away from there.


One of the white ones.


One of the chocolate-colored ones. They are more brown in real life, but I don't think the camera picked up on that.



They didn't like it when I got too close. They walked away, but later they went right back to this same spot.

The good news is, the daffodil festival ended yesterday. Hopefully none of them were injured or ate something too bad.

For those of you wondering about any potential adopters, I don't have too much news. I am still actively trying to find interested individuals or organizations that would help. I am waiting for someone I emailed to respond right now. We shall see. Thank you all for your support and for sharing this with others.

 

[Veer67]

I dont know if I could help adopt, but I could certainly feed them (probably on the weekend). Would wild bird seed and poultry pellets be ok?

 

[HeritageGoose13]

I dont know if I could help adopt, but I could certainly feed them (probably on the weekend). Would wild bird seed and poultry pellets be ok?

That's so helpful! I don't know about the bird seed, but poultry pellets are great. It would give them some actual nutrition instead of just bread. Most of them will come right up to people with food.
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Okay, here is Group 4, the tiny ducks that look to be Call/East Indies/Mallard mixes- something like that. They both have shiny green heads so I am thinking male. These ones are very nervous.


The iridescence (green shine) was captured once on my camera, but not on the next pic.


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And here is Group 5, the Pilgrim pair.


The white one is a male. The gray one is the female.

In the next picture you can see the two Pilgrims and the bibbed duck from Group 4.



Next I will post the muscovy, toulouse goose and buff orpington-like duck. That will be all my pictures for now- I am still trying to find time to visit the park again, hopefully sometime soon.

 

[jan12]

I have some chicks for sale in Easton, CT.

Isabel/Isabel cuckoo orpingtons
Blue/splash double laced barnevelders
Bantam silver double laced barnevelders
Easter eggers - blue/green egg layers
Ancona ducklings

PM me if interested. Thanks!!

 

[HeritageGoose13]

The muscovy:


I do not know what color this is formally called. I used the term buff since its the first thing I thought of. You can see his feathers are twisted at an odd angle. He is obviously male by his caruncles (red bumps on his face.)



I can't tell what's wrong with the wing. Someone at the park told me they thought it was broken, but to me it just looks like feathers tugged out of place or growing oddly.


Here you can see how big he is- bigger than a Canada goose! He was trying to pick fights with some of them, so maybe that's what happened to his feathers.

Now, for the toulouse goose I am worried about. This is what I saw first:

All the other domestic geese at the park had a companion, but this one did not.
I sat next to it and talked to it, and it lifted its head. Then I saw its eye was closed and water poured out of it. It also has a few feathers out of place. From what I saw, it had a hard time cleaning itself so I think that is why.


Now for the last duck I got a good picture of... the one that looks like a buff orpington-cross of some sort.


What do you think of the duck beside him? I couldn't tell if it was a mallard or a domestic with a similar pattern. For size comparison, the light-colored duck is on the medium-to-large size, bigger than a Swedish but smaller than a pekin.

 

[twunker]

The Muscovy looks like a Chocolate Muscovy. The wings on both the goose and the Muscovy are not broken. They have angel wing. It is a genetic problem that prevents the bird from flying.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

The muscovy: I do not know what color this is formally called. I used the term buff since its the first thing I thought of. You can see his feathers are twisted at an odd angle. He is obviously male by his caruncles (red bumps on his face.) I can't tell what's wrong with the wing. Someone at the park told me they thought it was broken, but to me it just looks like feathers tugged out of place or growing oddly. Here you can see how big he is- bigger than a Canada goose! He was trying to pick fights with some of them, so maybe that's what happened to his feathers. Now, for the toulouse goose I am worried about. This is what I saw first: All the other domestic geese at the park had a companion, but this one did not. I sat next to it and talked to it, and it lifted its head. Then I saw its eye was closed and water poured out of it. It also has a few feathers out of place. From what I saw, it had a hard time cleaning itself so I think that is why. Now for the last duck I got a good picture of... the one that looks like a buff orpington-cross of some sort. What do you think of the duck beside him? I couldn't tell if it was a mallard or a domestic with a similar pattern. For size comparison, the light-colored duck is on the medium-to-large size, bigger than a Swedish but smaller than a pekin.

Poor things. It's so not fair to domestically bred fowl to be abandoned.

 

[jan12]

Hi!
Does anyone have any lg breed brown egg layer hatching eggs in central Ct. for sale?

Thanks,
Gary

Hi! Did you find your hatching eggs? I have a few breeds of brown egg layers:
Birchen marans,
Blue double laced barnevelder hens with a splash double laced roo,
Hedemora
PM me if interested!

 

[HeritageGoose13]

Well, everyone I have bad news. I made it to the park today and one of the ducks was dead. It was the black swedish duck that I thought was possibly a male. I am not sure when it died, but it was mangled in the road and had obviously been hit by a car. I talked to several people there who were very upset. Apparently he liked to eat out of people's hands.

A complaint has been sent to Meriden Animal Control. It says on the city's website that they are the ones responsible for domestic animals and also for sick/injured animals. They should at least pick up the dead one and dispose of the body. After that, I am not sure what their move will be. Will they do anything? Will they try to euthanize the animals or place them in homes? I can't say. If anyone here (especially if you live in Meriden) would like to contact them and say something, their emails can be found at the city of Meriden's website or you could use their facebook page.

Also, one of the pekins from group 1 is also missing (or seems to be). I wonder if it was ran over as well, probably during the festival. On the other hand, I did see two pekins on the other side of the road that I had not seen before. I do not know if this is a new pair that has been dumped, or the duck from group 1 with a friend I had not noticed before. The runner, female Swede, and other pekin from Group 1 that were walking together in the pictures from last time were together again. They were looking at the body of the dead one - I gave them some extra layer pellets I had brought along and that seemed to perk them up.

Aside from that, everyone was accounted for- I saw each duck, goose and muscovy that I had last time. The muscovy has something wrong with it. It could barely breathe, had something white stuck to its eye, and had a more pronounced limp, dragging one of its feet. When I went up to it it began running (or trying) to run back into the water. I didn't want to stress it any more so I left it alone. Hopefully what it has is not contagious.

The only good news is I found the two little Call/East Indie/Mallard type ducks in another pond in another part of the park. They were with the Buff Orpington mix and the mallard-looking duck, which I could see is definitely a domestic-wild hybrid. It looks like a mallard but has white on its neck. These four are all male. The two little ducks were much calmer when they were with these two and I could get close. I will upload pictures later.

 

[new chick 203]

Hi. does anyone have any pea hens available for sale? My boy wants a girlfriend - BAD.