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[shelleyd2008]

Oh, and I checked the zones on them, and it says zone 7b. We are zone 6ish, so I don't know how good it would do. I wonder if you could cover the base or something? It says it's hardy to 5 degrees, we don't get colder than that too often? I'll have to check into that. My friend May said she has one, so I guess they can survive here?

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

for those who were wanting mandarins.... from craigslist ---

Exotic Waterfowl (Richmond (40475))

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I have 18 different species of Exotic Waterfowl for sale ( Marble Teal, Cinnamin Teal, White Mandarins, Regular Mandarins, Pintails, and other species). Please contact me by phone for varieties and prices. I live in Richmond. Home # (859) 623-5948


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[Mojo Chick'n]

Ok, pics of Benny and Joon

I believe they are embden mixed with brown chinese.

 

[dave_Cash69]

okay
so i just got home from the auction, sold my pigeons, and now i am the proud father of
banty cochins
a pair of buff polish
a hen with a mix between silkie and polish
a game hen with 6 chicks.
3 more guineas
and a rir hen
be jealous.

 

[Bluedog420]

I picked up 19 cochin's...frizzle and straight, and 1 white standard cochin hen yesterday. Then I went this morning and picked up 7 oeg roo's...beautiful roo's, and tomorrow I am going after a trio of silkie's and a pair of polish. I think I am a chicken junky

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

I think I may like having big geese.
I wanted babies to start with, but these guys are already earning their keep.

In spite of the ruckus they made at the auction (for those who were there to hear them losing their minds in that little cage

) they are usually pretty quiet. But today I had them out in the yard, with everyone else, and they made an awful noise - kept going off getting louder and louder - so I step out onto the porch to see the call ducks running like crazy for the coop and the chickens, also.

Benny and Joon were standing in the front yard looking up and around and honking like mad for 5 full minutes (they were very loud, I thought they'd ever stop). Then they went on a walk down the driveway and through the pasture and back to the coop looking for the hawk that they had spotted and checking to make sure it was gone

.

Benny even stood tall, spread his wings and flapped em a few times for good measure to make sure that hawk knew this was HIS yard

These guys may be worth their weight in gold, if they keep this up. I'm tired of losing ducks to predators (even when the predator is my own dog).

meri

 

[Andora]

Do you all worry about diseases when you buy chickens at auctions? It's so tempting to go, but I'm still paranoid after losing my entire flock thanks to Fat David.

Those geese are so cute! I wish I could own ducks and geese! Somehow I don't think they would be welcome in my suburb.

Tomorrow we're going to Connie's farm in Versailles to pick out some chicks. She has all kinds of breeds--I want to get a couple Polish, a buttercup, a barred rock, and I am hoping she will have some Houdans hatch out. She said she wasn't sure if the white eggs she gathered included Houdans and she just sold her last trio. She's also hatching blue cochins and we're at the top of the list to get first dibs!

 

[pop57]

Andora
Today 5:08 pm
Do you all worry about diseases when you buy chickens at auctions? It's so tempting to go, but I'm still paranoid after losing my entire flock

Yeah same here I meet buyers and sellers some place other than my farm if at all possible. Im not a clean freak but I have a ton of time into what i got going would be such a waste to lose it.

Pop

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I am more worried about it lately - not so much with ducks and geese, because they dont get sick as easily as chickens do, I hear.

Mainly right now I am getting chicks through hatcheries/feedstore, or hatching out my own. I'm about done buying from auctions when it comes to chickens. The only problem with chicks is it takes longer to get them to laying age. But just think of all that time I get to play with them and spoil them before they go outside to the coop

I was worried the geese would be agressive (since they are part embden, and I hear they get mean - and I know some from my youth who were mean) but these guys are cool - they walk away from you if you approach them. They're still a bit skittish but getting better - I think they realize I'm not gonna jump on them and trap them in that little cage again

Plus, handing out treats on a daily basis helps

That gander especially likes his treats.

I cleaned the fridge today and tossed out a half a head of lettuce that was sitting there too long for me to eat - tore it up and threw it into the yard - I think there may be one lone piece left out there.

meri

 

[Andora]

I love throwing my chickens treats! I save up our scraps...apple peels, bits of fruit my toddler didn't eat or dropped on the floor, pieces of cereal, scrambled eggs, oats...my dogs are SO jealous!

Some of my chickens are really picky for some reason. My old flock of chickens (the ones I lost from avian leukosis and coryza) would eat absolutely anything. In my new flock, only the buff brahmas eat everything. The rest will taste stuff then back away and rub their beaks on the ground frantically trying to get it off. You should have seen them trying mandarin oranges today. My buff brahma pullet ate all of the scraps, even the peel while the rest of the flock just stared at her.