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I know the (logical) answer to "when will my geese stop laying eggs" is "when they dang well please"; but it is almost July and I'm still collecting eggs from both of my females. Not as prolifically as the start of the season (two eggs every other day vs. two eggs every three or four days) but...

Hi all! I'm always seeing "no waste" diy PVC / bucket / what-have-you feeders people have made for their chickens, and I'm always tempted to try it with my geese (and future ducks) in order to cut down on a few minutes of routine in the bitter cold here .... but I'm thinking that wet goose...

Some background: we do not have harsh winters - last night it got down to 27, which means frost everywhere, and the coldest we get is around 18 - 12 degrees F. However, because our outside faucets are old & need replaced, I've decided not to use them this winter. So in order to provide the geese...

I think, if I were to get into ducks again, I would like to have a Muscovy flock. But are their egg laying habits comparable to quacking-ducks? Or do they lay more infrequently?

The short version: I went out this morning to let the geese out, and my gander had dragged his beak along the hw cloth and sandpapered his beak to where his top beak is now even with the bottom (even a bit of an underbite). Essentially: some of his beak is 'sandpapered' down. I stopped the...

Winter is not far off, and I'm acquiring lumber next month to start building a permanent coop for my two African geese. I've successfully wintered two Mallard ducks last year without any frostbite, so I'm designing this new coop off of that same kind of layout, but I've heard that Africans are...

My "babies" are now a month old & getting big - time for them to move outside. Not a problem! They have the run of a chainlink fence backyard and almost zero predator pressure in the daytime. Except ... sometimes I have to be out of town, all day and sometimes well into the next morning, and...

I thought it'd be nice to document the growing up of my very first two goslings: Daisy & Pearl. They're two feed store goslings that I picked up on May 31st, 2019 after a long spring trying (and failing!) to find incubated (and human imprinted) geese locally. And boy, there's no question about...

Hello! I'm doing some research about pet pigeons kept indoors, and I'm just wondering if there's anyone who has experience with keeping pigeons while having allergies/allergy-based asthma. I've kept ducks in the house with no issue, and dogs and cats, and I'm currently on two different allergy...

Probably a simple question - but would it be okay to have a bigger breed of goose with a smaller breed of goose, as long as both are female? I was thinking of ordering one Tufted Roman and one Buff or Toulouse, just for the sake of variety, but I know in ducks females will mount each other and I...

Hello! Back again with more questions. :lol: I plan on keeping geese & ducks both - though only one is going to happen this year. I just can't decide which! Both will be from hatcheries - Ancona ducks from Cackle, Tufted Romans from Metzer; all female. I'm familiar with ducks, so I know what...

I've decided, for the sake of not having to worry about drake/hen ratios, to order some ducklings come March. Which leaves choosing a breed! Anconas definitely appeal to me, because they're so pretty and reportedly calm (important: since these guys will be pets more than anything else) but I'd...

Hello! I've been strongly considering adopting some goslings this spring. I'll hopefully be picking up some ducklings from the feed store in Feb/March, but I'd also really like to add some geese if anyone local has them. And while I've googled goose care, most of it seems to be the perks of...

Has anyone had any luck with actually getting just females from feed store bins? I know you can look for obvious signs, i.e picking only the smallest ducklings. Maybe waiting until the differences are a little more obvious? In other words: please convince me not to think about the ducklings my...

I have two Mallards (a hen & a drake, which I'm aware is an unfortunate ratio) that we got in May, so they're almost five months old. They seem to get along okay - the drake is definitely acting a little jerkish (he likes to boss her around) but I've never seen them attempting to breed. The PLAN...

Hello! One of our girls seems to actually be a drake (I swear he quacked when he was younger :rolleyes:) & now I'm trying to do duck math for spring of next year. We currently have two <1 yr old Mallards, a female & a drake. I plan on ordering two females from a hatchery, which leaves me...

Does anyone reuse their dirty duck water for watering & fertilizing plants? If so, do you have a specific setup? I've found out that duck water is a really efficient fertilizer - we dump it on the lawn nearest to the pen, and the grass there grows faster than all of the other grass. Next year...

I was wondering if anyone had any tips for preventing mold when growing wheatgrass? I don't seem to have issues when sprouting the seed - it only seems to become an issue when the grass is getting established & continues to worsen as the grass develops. It starts out as white mold and then...

Hi BYC! :frow I'm Korie & BYC has been the biggest, most helpful resource since accidentally acquiring two baby ducklings in May. An entire litter of newborn ducklings showed up in our yard - we suspect someone dumped them in a bucket across the road from our house and they wandered into our...