Recent content by peter wade

have any members any ideas why a goose is killing her goslings with in a short time of hatching she sat ok hatched ok but then killed them,last year she hatched and reared ok what could cause this to happen ????

i'm wondering if members could help,i've a indian runner drake and the trouble is his penis will not go back in.until this happened he was treading ok ,had this happen to a kc drake a few yrs ago and he lasted another 3yrs with no side affects. this time i think i will have to dispatch said bird...

i wonder if members could help a friend of mine who lives in australia has 3 banties trouble is 1 turned out to be a cockerel at present no complaints, is there any breed that is not so noisy as she would still like to have a cockerel

can any member help one of my ducks has both legs stretched out behind,i was wondering if it could be duck paralysis have locked in duck books and other sites and it seems to affect young birds mine is four years old and have never had problems if it paralysis is there any treatment or is kind...

i have a question i would like to ask members? this year i have more cockerels than pullets hatch but it only seems to be my pekin it affects my indian game have hatched about 50- 50,a couple of friends say they have same problem. would be interested to hear if others have had same problem or...

i have a problem with 1 of my geese she is acting strange in respect she's not actually falling over but just don't seem to walk right it seems slow almost like she has to think what she's doing, i know it sounds weird but only way i can explain it, she was alright when i let her out today...

i know to non poultry keepers they would think i'm weird being chuffed over a egg but at last out comes incubator that will please the wife she thinks i've to many now

hi members i wonder if any 1 can help concerning importing eggs from non eu country in to uk, i have the chance of some fertile eggs(pekin) from a fellow member on 1 of the poultry sites i am on,i would be grateful on any help( country in question is australia ) i know people who have got eggs...

having just received my new issue of practical poultry i saw a interesting blog started by american reader john metzer all do with his connection with waterfowl there is a video showing how to sex ducklings & goslings both colour & vent sexing, any one connected with waterfowl i would say look...

well i'ave had my new trio of chinese geese for 1wk have settled in well, only wish i had more room i would have had more. am trying to get them use to 15wk old jack russel puppy any ideas would be a help all our other dogs were raised with birds so had no problem take him in to pens with me...

pick birds up weekend, person who i am gettig these from has told me he is selling up completely all geese call & pekins ducks got some one buying them. got mine in time see if i can get straw there i cann't seem to keep of site i find it brillant let friends know

getting closer to getting geese, a question i would like to ask i find it getting harder to get small bales of straw do you know of a good alternative farmers only seem to have the large round bales

thanks for getting back to me regarding chinese geese i have started putting up fence to split two lots of birds up i find this site very interesting and could spend hours on it now i have got the hang of it i hope to have birds in next day or two but i always seem to be going for check ups...

davidd i know geese are you favorite i have chance of fawn chinese 2year old birds this year have you any knowledge of this breed if so how do you rate them, if i run these with other geese in same pen, sleep in different huts at night will they be all right ( about quarter of acre in size)...

thanks for reply, are you able to breed from toulouse successfully as i am told they are hard to owing to size. how many birds have you actual got and do you breed many goslings? i have sold about thirty eggs this season and have had fair reports about hatching rate .have only bred two goslings...