Subsection for ducks & Geese

[CelticOaksFarm]

Not catered to, just keeping them separate as not everyone who has ducks has geese and not everyone with geese has ducks. This way the two remain separate so separate needs can be discussed.

Nifty, I would be more than happy to help move posts if a new divided section can be added under Ducks and Geese both. I know it is a huge undertaking to ask of anyone, so I am willing to help get them populated by moving posts as needed.

Subsections would also be good because the use of stickies could keep topic related important items at the top. Such as flush recipes that I have posted and shared a number of times, could be instead a sticky in the Goose emergency subsection.

It would also help since incubation needs differ between ducks and geese and they both have much different needs than chickens. Those not familiar with geese often do not realize they are seasonal layers, can not be light induced into laying, and the number of eggs they lay varies greatly from one breed to another. Some breeds also do not have have good fertility their first breeding season. This would all be nice to discuss and share in subsections so others could search those areas in the future for previous posts.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Great, thanks so much for the offer to help! I think this sounds like a good possibility, at least for Ducks to start since that section is pretty busy.

 

[Marty1876]

My offer still stands too, Nifty.. Its a shame we can't do both, but I'm happy to accept and help with a step in the desired direction.

 

[hfchristy]

A separate subsection for duck housing would be AMAZING.
I'm trying to build a duck house this week, and finding the right posts is driving me nuts!

 

[Wulfandwyn]

It would be great if we had something like this!

I know this is BYChickens, but we have a large number of duck and geese people here as well.

Can we have subsections please to help organize things some?

Ducks -
housing/pens (they have different requirements and its hard to search for these)
emergencies (cause lets face it, if you post in the chicken emergency area it gets ignored)
incubating (again different requirements, would be nice to have a spot to share/troubleshoot)
general (all around mish mash chit chat... basically anything not falling into the above)


Geese -
housing
emergencies
incubating
general

 

[Amiga]

I would appreciate a Waterfowl section, too. I have ducks, don't anticipate geese but appreciate waterfowl especially. Just a note . . . one of my first pets was a Rhode Island Red, Henny Penny, loved her so much. But I also don't anticipate bringing in chickens.

I agree with the points already made that duck emergencies seem to get lost many times on the larger emergency board.

Different housing and watering needs, duckling nutrition, incubation needs, and increasing number of duck people who need to wade through the Duck Forum to find answers would all be good reasons to have a separate section with subsections. And the point that geese have significantly different needs than either chickens or ducks so they could at least be in a Waterfowl section makes sense to me.

Thanks, Nifty Chicken, for your willingness to consider this with us.

BackyardChickens has been immensely helpful to me for well over two years (still such a noob). I want to acknowledge that. Thanks everybody.

 

[jdywntr]

I agree that having subsections for ducks would be VERY helpful. It can be very frustrating trying to search for something and get results that only relate to chickens.

It would also help alleviate the number of repeated posts because if there were sections on housing, nutrition etc then members could search there before posting things like "what should I feed ducklings".

I also agree with an emergencies section. I have posted and have seen threads in the emergency section that are not answered because most of the people looking there are chicken folk.

I am not sure that we would need a meat duck section. I have gotten good responses in the meat birds section when needed. It may be helpful though since many of the duck keepers on BYC only keep pet ducks and get upset when someone posts about processing in the duck forum.

 

[Valntyn]

Very exciting thread -- I'm all for the idea!!
Thank you for considering it and thanks to those who'll be working on it if it goes through!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Ok, some GREAT news! The staff have approved this expansion project!

We're going to start with Ducks and then see how that goes to see if it makes sense to expand others.

Next Steps:

1. Let's all keep discussing and finalize the categories / sections.
2. I'll then set up the new sections under the Ducks section
3. We can work together to determine which threads to move. We usually start with moving the topics over the past few months so the new sections have some good seed content. We're not sure how we'll go about doing this. Using the report link may not be a good option since it would flood our moderators section. OOhhh... maybe we could use a publicly editable BYC article / "My Page" and everyone could submit links to pages that should be moved?

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

looking forward to getting the duck area done and then the geese too.

My Suggestions:


housing
emergencies
incubating
general