Consolidated Kansas

[Blooms&Brood]

awesome we need to really schedule a Meet and Greet for everyone so we can put faces with names for everyone!!!

I am in Merriam (Sub of Kansas City) at least for the next couple years then I will be moving to the "dark side" Missouri

I just moved from JOCO, KS to the "dark side" less than a year ago. I won't be back!!! Love MO!

 

[Blooms&Brood]

I promise to come back on sometime today and properly introduce myself but I have 36 new babies in the brooder (had 37) and we lost the runt today. Super bummer because last night my husband was praising me for not losing a single chick out of the 75 total between August through February. Anyhow. I think he cursed me so off to be chickmerized I go.

 

[chicken danz]

I'm all for that but there is such a distance between people these days. I used to drive to the Wichita area for these things but often it was 2 1/2 hours to get there. We really need a central point but it doesn't seem like anyone central has a place to get together. I really enjoyed our chicken get togethers. I don't drive much anymore but would make an exception if we had a get together mid day. I just won't drive in the dark if I can avoid it and every one knows I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON! Lol

 

[chicken danz]

Welcome @Blooms&Brood. A person after my own heart obviously. My first love is horticulture. But age and back problems have turned birds into my first love. I still dream of the beautiful gardens I used to keep but I didn't have chickens, geese, ducks etc etc, or dogs to shred them back then. Just cats to use them for a potty. Some day I hope to be able to fence off the yard around the house itself and claim that as my growing space. Right now I'm too busy building pens and such for all the other animals.

 

[CayugaJana]

@CayugaJana , just to clarify are the spots they are getting on their neck? If so, some cayuga have some white feathers on their neck although that isn't really preferred. The aging and getting the spots usually starts on the back of the head for the ducks and on the back for the drakes. The reason it starts on the back of the head for ducks is because that is the down that is pulled out all the time. The drakes don't develop the white with age.
Here is a description and standard for the ducks for showing. Looks like the white on the neck would be a DQ for showing even though it is included in the livestock cons ervatories description of the breed as occurriing in some of the offspring.
Cayuga Ducks

STANDARDS:*
Appearance: Bill, slate/black Legs, orange/black
Plumage, black with beetle green gloss. A broad deep long bodied duck. lumage in both sexes is a deep green black with a pronounced sheen. Bill is black legs and webs as dark as possible black for preference.
Needs: Do require water for swimming to stay health, also need it changing regularly as the oil that produces the sheen and gloss will scum the water

Names . .Canard de Cayuga.
Country Of Origin;......... USA
Carriage; A broad deep long bodied duck
Purpose;..........Meat Production: EggProduction:....Seasonal layer,
Egg Colour .......................black outer ..white shell under sooty pigment large
Egg Numbers............80 /100 . . Seasonal layer,
Breed Defects. . . . .Orange legs; white in male feathers
Broodiness:... . acceptable often a private mother hiding the eggs well. . Incubation: 28 days Maturity:
Breed Hints.... Kept as trio or pair .. will go broody and hatch
Weights; 6 to 9 pounds / drake 3,0 - 3,5 kg duck 2,7 - 3,1 kg
Breed Tip****Females have white feathering as they age .. starting with a few white flecks until by 6yrs the female is often white.NEVER any white on the male.
Flying . females occasionally fly when young a good back garden all rounder;
Genetic profile;-Gene : Extended black/ symbol E/ Dominant.Causes solid black pigment to be laid down in all areas except those influenced by genes for white spotting. Typical of the Black Orpington(USA) Black Cayuga and Black East Indian. Evidence exists suggesting that extended black influences eggshell colour giving it a grey tint when crossed or 'improved' this is lost first

Thank you so much Danz! I’ll have to keep this. Yes some of them have it on their neck or a feather or two on their chest.

 

[CayugaJana]

I’m about 3 hours from Wichita and 2.5 hours from KC. I’d be interested in something mid-day....

 

[Dani4Hedgies]

CayugaJana so guessing your around Pittsburg? Danz depending on where we can always grab you on the way got my new car to show off I'm in Merriam (for now) and Heather is in Turney Mo.

 

[CayugaJana]

Welcome @Blooms&Brood. A person after my own heart obviously. My first love is horticulture. But age and back problems have turned birds into my first love. I still dream of the beautiful gardens I used to keep but I didn't have chickens, geese, ducks etc etc, or dogs to shred them back then. Just cats to use them for a potty. Some day I hope to be able to fence off the yard around the house itself and claim that as my growing space. Right now I'm too busy building pens and such for all the other animals.

Danz we must be cut from the same cloth.... I love animals and gardening. My fingers are itching to start seedlings for my garden, plant some pretty bulbs that I bought to fancy up the duck pen (AKA mud hole), and do some winter cutting propagation.

Yes @Dani4Hedgies I’m near Pittsburg. Go-Rillas

 

[Dani4Hedgies]

I know Heather and I are finishing our 10x10 chicken tractor today to put them to work tearing up our garden area so we can start planting. Hoping to be mostly off commercial feed for our flocks and rabbits by end of next year.

 

[chicken danz]

I got some seed starting medium and yesterday dug out some flats and pots to start seeds. I used to use my greenhouse but after 30 years it's time to replace the siding on it and that is super pricy. Plus I have it in a poor location right now for starting seeds. So it has baby ducks in it at the moment. I plan to clear a spot in my basement and put down heat tape and grow lights and try to start the seedlings there. But of course I have to find the time to move a ton of things to have room for it. Never enough time in a day.
Tomorrow is going to be one of those days I will be busy non-stop. Really not anxious for that. I wore myself out today.