My Magellan Geese

[destinduck]

Thanks Roger But I doubt I'm going to bother him with it at this time because I really dont want to start vaccinating unless I absolutely have to. Good luck with them and all your others as well.

 

[MAX PRODUCTION]

Vaccines run about $20.00 per bird per year here. How about you Roger? Our logic is that investing $20.00 in a $200-$500.00 sheldgoose is worth it, even if the results are not completely proven. It helps me sleep better at night that we've done something to protect our cherished and valuable birds from these darn mosquitoes!

Danny

 

[destinduck]

Danny How about some pics of your birds and what your avaries look like please? Also I guess my logic would be overall I want stronger heathier birds with a better immune system built up as previously stated. I dont know about Roger but I guess it would cost 20 dollars here as well.

 

[dylan duck man]

Please it would be great to see some pics !

 

[MAX PRODUCTION]

OK guys, I've been pressured into it. I'm not a good photographer by any means so my apologies in advance for some of these!













1. wood ducks and mandarins
2. eyeton's or plumed whistling ducks
3. mandarins, wood ducks, rosybill, red-crested pochard, common eider, silver redhead
4. greater scaup, canvasback, hooded merganser, wood duck, common goldeneye (and part of a shoveler!)
5. barrow's goldeneye, smew
6. common shelduck
7. cackler
8. magellan geese, lesser type
9. nene, red-breasted, whooper swans
10. cape barren geese
11. emperors

 

[MAX PRODUCTION]

I take more pictures of babies, they're just so darn cute!








1. red-breasted and emperors
2. emperors and red-breasted
3. nene trying to eat the camera LOL
4. mandarins and green-winged teal
5. white-faced, fulvous, black-bellied, bahama pintail, ringed teal and lots of various call duck colors
(maybe more species mixed in too, my old eyes can see them!)
6. laysan teal, wood duck, apricot wood duck, white mandarin, blue-winged teal crouched in front
7. young hooded mergs
8. half grown hooded

Hope you enjoy them!
Danny

 

[dylan duck man]

omg they are so buitiful how much is it for a pair of hoddies

 

[MAX PRODUCTION]

Good morning Dylan. Didn't you say you had tried hooded mergansers and they died ? What have you done to make sure it doesn't happen the next time you try them?

I'm happy to help you get to a point where you can keep hooded alive. It looks like you've gone a bit hog wild with the bird buying. Maybe slow down a bit; you've got to get some experience under your belt first!

Danny

 

[dylan duck man]

we actully have been colecting our colection for about 5 years now and we have been raising diving ducks for about 1 year i just havent had time to find a pair

 

[MAX PRODUCTION]

Hello Dylan,
Ok, 5 years is a good start but you've got a long way to go. I'm not trying to diminish your experience...I'm just saying there's way more to learn. I've been keeping birds for 25 years and I still learn new things every day!

Hooded Mergansers are not diving ducks...they dive of course but they are actually members of the sea duck tribe. True diving ducks are pochards, scaup, white-eyes, etc. Mergansers, and sea ducks in general, are not tolerant of the same things the diving ducks are (crowding, competition, dirty water, etc.), though of all the sea ducks Hooded and Smew are the MOST tolerant of those things. Looking at your photo of the mute swans in with a bunch of miscellaneous ducks, that's not going to work for mergansers.

If you're willing to listen and learn, I'm willing to help. If not, I won't waste my time responding anymore.

Danny