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My Pilgrim goose has not started sitting on her eggs yet. She has been collecting them all season and had started to sit on them last year by this time. They will be 8 years old this year. Is that getting too old? Should I pick up all her eggs? She has over 20 in her nest. The weather has been...

They are the only two geese on our property. I got them from Metzer Farms as day old goslings. So unless they were not purebred when I got them, they should be full. The gander does have blue eyes, I just can’t remember when. I was really hoping they are females since that is the only way I can...

0F53DD1B-2156-4B95-A916-A5C4AF9A7F86 by kroder posted Jan 11, 2019 at 9:44 PM641A679A-C631-4BFA-B3A7-52E59689C033 by kroder posted Jan 11, 2019 at 9:44 PM4210910D-1BFB-401C-B029-0A82354FCC42 by kroder posted Jan 11, 2019 at 9:44 PM3B5114EF-97FE-4E87-928D-0DADF189E51A by kroder posted Jan 11...

That is what we've been doing. We have had two of the medium (racoon) Haveaheart live traps and 1 large (coyote/dog) set, with cat food and mackerel for bait. We have only caug the one cat. The head wasn't eaten today. It was so odd that the head and body were so far apart. Tonight, all the...

I have been losing poultry over the last couple of weeks to an unknown predator. I have been keeping chicken for 10 years and this is the first problem I've had. I have lost more chickens to loose dogs than anything else. I have lost 3 juvenile Muscovy Ducks, 10 young assorted Bantams that...

I went out this evening tonight to find my favorite (and one of my last pet) hens. With a swollen right eye with dried crusty fluid on it. The left side is completely normal. Is it infectious Coryza or trauma? She is not gurgling or sneezing. She took 6cc of water and we gave her a shot to...