Recent content by Cheviot

Hi, As promised here are some pics of the little toulouse, I think it is gorgeous, but then I absolutely adore geese. This is Mum and Dad last year, with some adopted babies. Regards Sue

Hi, This morning, when I checked the incubator, I had a lovely suprise, sitting there quietly drying off, was the very first Toulouse gosling I have ever managed to hatch :D :D :D :D :D :D . Last year my young goose laid 8 eggs, none of which were fertile, this year so far she has laid 14...

Hi, A couple of questions about producing sex linked chicks, the way I understand it works is by putting a genetically gold cock onto genetically silver hens, resulting in yellow male chicks and brown female chicks, that bit I can get my head around. Now for the stuff I'm not sure about :? ...

Hi, :D I have a couple of questions, about Mandarin and Carolina ducks, firstly I seem to remember reading somewhere that Mandarin and Carolinas can be kept together in the same enclosure, without them cross breeding between the breeds, is that correct? Secondly do these ducks only breed as a...

Hi, I have two African ganders for sale, they were hatched in spring 2010, both are big, well grown, quality, friendly birds, they have been running together since early spring and have been totally non aggressive, towards people and dogs. :D Near to J15 of the M74 I would like £40.00 each for...

Hi, Lovely ducklings, :-)17 I have some chocolate and white youngsters, it's the first time I have hatched any, like you say they are full of mischief :D , they have got so much more character than my other breeds of duckling, so definately a fan of them. Regards Sue

Hi, The first two of my saxony duck eggs have hatched :-)17 , I have never hatched saxonys before, and was just wondering if they are an auto sexing breed :? , as one duckling is yellow, with a grey tail and grey stripe on the top of it's head, and the other one is all dark grey, have tried...

Hi, I have a Cayuga duck, she was hatched last year, so will be approx 1 year old. About 2 weeks ago she laid her 1st egg, followed by another egg the next day, the day after that she couldn't walk and could only get about by using her wings, I caught her up and couldn't find anything obvious...

Hi, Look what we woke up to this morning :shock: , poor birds have only just started laying properly, this will no doubt upset the routine. I'm sure spring is just around the corner, but it sure has been a long winter :-)06 Regards Sue

Hi, I hatched some cream legbar chicks, I thought it would be easy to sex the chicks, but I'm struggling to identify 2 of them.The one on the left is male, 2nd from the right is female, it's the other two I'm struggling with, on the photo the one on the right looks female, but the camera has...

Hi, Tonight when shutting everybody in for the night, I noticed my cream legbar cockeral was looking rather sorry for himself, :( head down, tail down and he looked wet, further investigation revealed a serious infestation of northern fowl mite, :shock: so I gave him a good dusting with mite...

Hi, One of my white chinese geese has started laying :-)08 , only problem, she insists on laying in a nest she has made outside, unfortunately if I am not around when she lays, the darned crows get the eggs :-)06 . Any ideas on how I can get her to make a nest and lay in it, indoors, would be...

Went outside this morning to do the stock, and found my quail had been attacked, dead quail everywhere, :evil: after a head count 17 dead, 6 living, out of the 6 only one does not look to have been chased around as it's feathers are clean and dry, the other 5 are dirty and wet. Unfortunately...

Hi, Let me introduce Snowflake the sebastopol goose, a mate for Sam the gander, I was really wanting to get a fully curled goose but my partner located this one for me and got me it as a Christmas present, :-)08 The only problem is Sam her mate doesn't seem to like her, :evil: prefering...

Hi, Whilst trawling around the internet trying to locate a female sebastopol goose for my newly acquired gander, I came across an advert on either bird trader or preloved or one of those type of sites, of someone selling a pair of exhibition tolouse geese that had been DNA sexed. :o I was...