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My aunt bought 8 geese about 40 yrs ago and they were nice but they have just kept breeding until today where my aunt now has 32 (We butcher a whole bunch every year) and those 32 are the meanest! They attack at any chance they get!!! There is one nice one that is about 20 yrs old! He...
Duck or chicken? You cant go wrong with silkies for tameness!! For ducks I dont know..... I only own my call ducks. My aunt has pekins but they are free range and arent all that nice....Miss.Lydia are your tolouse geese aggressive?
So today me, my sister, my dad, and my mom all ate lunch together after church and I made bread pudding and I made it with duck eggs. It was sooo good! I let my family eat it all before I broke the news that it was duck eggs instead of chicken eggs because my mom and sister are weird about that...
Reminds me of in the documentaries where the show the zebra drinking underwater and the crocodile like 2 feet away from the zebras mussel! Hope that doesnt happen here!
Lucky when I went out to cows two days ago it was -25!!!! Without wind chill. Had to carry water to everyone because auto water froze. They thawed around 8 o clock though.
Wow hit 40 degrees. That will be around July probably. Its just sooo cold. At the cow farm the poor things are just dropping like flies to the cold. And of course all the girls. Have had 4 girl calves die in the last month. Also having terrible time getting girls. Out of 40 calves only 8 were...
Well I do have a rooster out there. Water will all be frozen anyway. LOL. I have a water system that allows them to drink and allows duck to wash nostrils but that is it.
Can a silkie that hasn't started to lay eggs raise a duckling. She isn't broody. Hasn't even layed an egg yet but sorta raised a duckling that was about 2 months younger than it. Can I put my little duckling (if it hatches) out with her? Will she know what to do?