Hi BYC!
Long time lurker, new member. I raise Muscovy ducks, a few types of geese (still figuring out which ones I like most), and a small flock of a dozen chickens for eggs.
The ducks and geese are part of my "food forest" ecosystem, where I'm primarily growing Pawpaws and American persimmon. Plus lots of other plants and trees for ecosystem support, fodder, biomass, etc. The birds are for meat, to eat slugs, snails and grass, and to fertilize the fruit trees.
I'm only a year into having the ducks and geese, so I am relatively new to caring for these birds. I have a dozen adult ducks + 28 ducklings and 9 geese + 1 gosling right now. My intention is to let them breed up to a few hundred ducks and a hundred or so geese over the next few years.
Below are a few pics of my birds.
Note: the “collar” on the gander is something he accidentally put on himself when he was very enthusiastically sticking his head into a feeder and the cover somehow came off onto his head. It doesn’t seem to bother him, and I figure it would bother him more if I tried to catch him and remove it. So I’ve left it. Also makes it easy to identify that gander.
Long time lurker, new member. I raise Muscovy ducks, a few types of geese (still figuring out which ones I like most), and a small flock of a dozen chickens for eggs.
The ducks and geese are part of my "food forest" ecosystem, where I'm primarily growing Pawpaws and American persimmon. Plus lots of other plants and trees for ecosystem support, fodder, biomass, etc. The birds are for meat, to eat slugs, snails and grass, and to fertilize the fruit trees.
I'm only a year into having the ducks and geese, so I am relatively new to caring for these birds. I have a dozen adult ducks + 28 ducklings and 9 geese + 1 gosling right now. My intention is to let them breed up to a few hundred ducks and a hundred or so geese over the next few years.
Below are a few pics of my birds.
Note: the “collar” on the gander is something he accidentally put on himself when he was very enthusiastically sticking his head into a feeder and the cover somehow came off onto his head. It doesn’t seem to bother him, and I figure it would bother him more if I tried to catch him and remove it. So I’ve left it. Also makes it easy to identify that gander.
Glad you joined.
