Articles by wordgirl

Well, I've never done anything with my BYC page, so I guess I might as well make one! This will be about my batch of chickens for 2011, that Lord-willing, I will be getting in the spring. I'm thinking right now of getting about a dozen pullets for myself, and an unknown number of additional...

Breed Details: The Ancona duck is a beautiful duck that is built a bit stockier than its cousin, the Magpie, and weighs 6 to 6.5 lbs at maturity. Its unique mottled plumage can be of any combination of a single color and white, or it may be tricolored. An adult's beak is usually yellow with...