Which BYC member scares you?

[Painted Calls]

Oh my God Please tell me it was not raw meat! Memaw is that a precious dress?

Steak

It is!

Spoiler: Precious dress

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

I know a lot of people do it, and that's cool. But especially if I were keeping heritage breeds, I would not want to go and randomly cross them just because? I feel like part of keeping some of these breeds would be to keep a healthy line of them going, so to me there would be no benefit to breeding say, Appleyard x WH ducklings. I don't have any roosters yet, but we have no plans to just let any males roam and just randomly do their thing, either. Any breeding, crosses or otherwise, would be intentional.

I completely get that. But what I don't understand is why then not just stick with chickens or with ducks?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Steak

It is!

Spoiler: Precious dress

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So cute!

 

[The Moonshiner]

What are you doing over here Dawg?
Don't you have a party thread going on?

 

[azurbanclucker]

What are you doing over here Dawg?
Don't you have a party thread going on?

I heard the cops raided it.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I heard the cops raided it.

Glad I left early then.

 

[Chipmunk Chicks]

I completely get that. But what I don't understand is why then not just stick with chickens or with ducks?

Well, we already have chickens, and ...I also like ducks? Lol

We have a coop here that will be about maxed out, but we also have two ponds on the property, so it just feels like such a perfect habitat for them! For chickens right now we have all laying hens (well, pullets, but ykwim), but eventually the goal would be to provide ourselves with a meat source as well. So to start, if that were potentially to come from the occasional small clutch of ducklings (i.e. not keep more than one drake, at least until we could grow the flock significantly), or rabbits, or eventually meat chickens, each of those things would require different levels of space and logistics to take on.

Eventually, I would love to keep a flock of heritage meat birds and/or breed a heritage sex link (as a terminal cross - eat the males, sell or keep for layers the females, maintain the lines), but that will require a whole level of setup that I just won't be able to do on this property, unfortunately. Better to start small and learn as we go anyway, I figure.

So we will have plenty of eggs from our chickens, and plenty of lovely duck eggs that I can also use for dying Ukrainian eggs, and the possibility for meat birds by keeping a drake. Even if worst case it doesn't work out, he goes to freezer camp sooner than anticipated? But I'd at least like to hatch a clutch out before so we can try our hand at sustainability.

 

[Painted Calls]

Today was my grandparents 72nd anniversary.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Today was my grandparents 72nd anniversary.

So sweet!!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

What are you doing over here Dawg?
Don't you have a party thread going on?

I heard the cops raided it.

Glad I left early then.

They did!