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I'm curious, is there a preferred eye color defined in the muscovy duck standard?

I seem to have acquired myself a mid-winter project. It's a circa 1950-something (I presume) Sears & Roebuck 600 egg capacity 'Farm Master'. The cabinet itself is in fair condition. All of the trays are with it and in fair condition as well, but the heating element/fan definitely needs...

... but she failed to warn me about fighting ganders. And now I'm bruised. Though most certainly not as bruised as the ganders. I figure with a gaggle of 13 scuffles are bound to happen. And they do every once in a while. And usually someone is very proud of themselves and someone else...

...what are the chances she'll go back to it? I have a Narr hen that's been disappearing a lot. I'd suspected she'd probably started a next somewhere but finally went hunting today. I found her and when I walked up to her she jumped up, there were 10-12 eggs under her. She ran back over to...

Is there a budding market for "vitamin-free" poultry I don't know about? http://centralmich.craigslist.org/grd/2037990348.html

This summer I bought these two from a fellow BYCer as part of a larger flock of Americans. I had intended to keep them for a new breeding project, but in re-examining my commitments and other projects for spring 2011 it's become clear some prioritization is in order. Since my main focus with...

Not a great picture, but of the ducks you can see in the picture, anybody care to enlighten me as to what color they would be considered. I'm color handicapped. (And if any of you muscovy whisperers out there can miraculously tell gender of any ducks pictured, by all means... I'd love to know.)

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I thought some of you goose people would find this humorous. We added American Buffs to the farm this year with the intent to offer goose to our clients around the holidays. We only have 13 geese in the flock right now and intend, of course, to raise many more. Well my Mother stopped by the...

In mid-April we bought a 1 year old Narragansett trio. Within 3 hours of being in their new home one of the hens laid an egg, within 8 hours, both had. I was more than impressed. They continued to lay an egg a day, or every other day consistently until April 30th when one of the hens got Sour...

Obviously every gander and goose is an individual and within every breed and variation of breed there will be individuals from every position on the temperament spectrum. That said as a general rule some breeds do tend to be more or less aggressive than others. Which brings me to my question...

***This is cross-posted in the Turkey Section*** I have a 9mo Narragansett hen that is acting lethargic (she was eating and drinking some earlier today) and has a growth/protrusion where her breast meets her abdomen and slightly to the left. There is no mass in the lump, it feels soft and...

I have an ill hen and she has me stumped. I'm hoping someone here might be able to shed some light on this. The hen has a large lump right about where her breast meets her abdomen and a little to the left. I thought she may be egg bound so caught her to palpate. There is no mass in the lump...

The title says it all. How long would the turkey experts suggest for "homing" a new Narraganset trio. All three are Spring 2009 hatches so approximately 1 year old.

I'd like to try my hand at raising quail for meat and eggs -- you know, because what's one more species on the funny farm? I've been trying to do my homework and am leaning towards Coturnix (mainly because from what I've read they're the easiest and since I'm new to the species... I should...

I've had ducks before -- runners, pekins, and rouens. We didn't currently have any in the flock but I got a call earlier this week about 2 pekins needing a home and couldn't turn them down. They were supposedly both the same age and both "Spring 2009 babies". The owners knew nothing about them...

Our flock is greatly depleted after losing chicks to a flood this spring and then to very determined racoons this summer. We only have three hens left. All three are young yet (Right around 21 weeks.) One started laying on September 3, a nice hard-shelled, decently sized egg and has been giving...

I'm a first time duck owner, I picked up a couple of Pekin ducklings at the feed store today and am wondering how old they are. (I probably should have asked there, but didn't think of it) I assume they're a couple weeks or so - it's the feed store I regularly buy feed at for our chickens and...