Hi Michiganders! I am fairly new to BYC. I have hatched my first batch of geese and duck eggs and loving this new adventure! I was given some free eggs, told they were Embden and pekin eggs and was told, try to hatch them, if you want them, keep them, if you don't bring them back. Of course after my first 3 hatched and we named them and fell in love, I found out the farm I got them from, that I was planning to take them back to, culls their flocks in the Spring. Well, now I don't want to take them back! So, we are keeping 3 for the summer, then I will need to find them a home. Also, I have 6 duck eggs in the incubator due in 2 weeks. ALSO, I don't have just Embden and Peking, I have 3 Embden, and 2 I'm unsure of, but look nothing like Embden OR Pekin!
Here is a picture of the goose and duck in question..
This is Moose
When I went to the farm, every duck and goose on the farm was PURE white except these 2....
Which look like 2 different breeds, but I don't know which.
Then we have Levi. Like I said, every single bird on the farm, with the exception of Moose's parents were pure white. This is the duck I got...
He is getting more and darker feather spots and his bill is turning green, as you can see, at the base and in the crevices. I have never seen a Pekin like this!
Anyway, so I need to build or buy a safe pen for them to play in during the day/possible night that is SUPER secure. I had over a dozen raccoons in my back yard last night feeding from the bird feeder on the ground. Last week a pack of coyotes took down a deer in my back yard, The sand cranes are plucking moles from the ground, there is a red tailed hawk and a Bald eagle's next withing the vacinity and a fox was on my neighbor's deck yesterday. I may need the military to guard my babies.
This is the area in my yard I would like to put something, and I really have no other option of putting it anywhere else as my entire yard slopes.
I have been on the internet for 3 days straight trying to find something to buy and put together. I can't build anything myself as I have had surgery on both my hands and I only have a hammer and a screw driver, no building tools.
Any advice is GREATLY appreciated!
Amanda
So, that's my story in a nutshell.
Here is a picture of the goose and duck in question..
This is Moose
When I went to the farm, every duck and goose on the farm was PURE white except these 2....
Which look like 2 different breeds, but I don't know which.
Then we have Levi. Like I said, every single bird on the farm, with the exception of Moose's parents were pure white. This is the duck I got...
He is getting more and darker feather spots and his bill is turning green, as you can see, at the base and in the crevices. I have never seen a Pekin like this!
Anyway, so I need to build or buy a safe pen for them to play in during the day/possible night that is SUPER secure. I had over a dozen raccoons in my back yard last night feeding from the bird feeder on the ground. Last week a pack of coyotes took down a deer in my back yard, The sand cranes are plucking moles from the ground, there is a red tailed hawk and a Bald eagle's next withing the vacinity and a fox was on my neighbor's deck yesterday. I may need the military to guard my babies.
This is the area in my yard I would like to put something, and I really have no other option of putting it anywhere else as my entire yard slopes.
I have been on the internet for 3 days straight trying to find something to buy and put together. I can't build anything myself as I have had surgery on both my hands and I only have a hammer and a screw driver, no building tools.
Any advice is GREATLY appreciated!
Amanda
So, that's my story in a nutshell.
