Quail_Antwerp: Words from the Barnyard...

[ohiofarmgirl]

Ducks are waaaaaaaaaay easier than pigs!

Well, ducks are kinda like pigs with feathers....

Yeah, the quack gives them away.

ducks are little pigs in down jackets... but at least they wont chase you down and kill you.

there is nothing cuter than a baby duck.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

ducks are little pigs in down jackets... but at least they wont chase you down and kill you.

Egg-zactly!!!

WZ, I do have a couple with pink bills, but since I'm not sure if I have pure WH or not, I'm not sure how accurate that will be. The one with a pink bill that I picked up was quacking loudly, so I'm thinking it a girl.

Sadly, tho, I think my precious Pip, who was the first to hatch, is a boy. Guess I'll have to keep him anyway.

 

[Farmfresh]

Are you ready for a ridiculous suggestion from someone who has NO idea what they are talking about? !

Here is the idea. People are constantly saying pigs are smarter than dogs right? Well I have seen many dogs trained to sit and stay until released to eat their dinner bowl.

How about a little obedience training for those young PIGS? !!!

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I just had another pig in a down jacket hatch! For a total of 13 ducklings! It's black and yellow!!

One more egg to go, and it's pipped! whoot!!

 

[rebecca100]

I heard, but it don't know if it is true or not that you can tell a male from a female rouen by the stripes on it's face. One is supposed to be female and two stripes indicated male. Or I may have that backwards.... I don't have rouens anymore to test it.

 

[keljonma]

Congrats on the ducklings!

 

[Wifezilla]

I heard, but it don't know if it is true or not that you can tell a male from a female rouen by the stripes on it's face. One is supposed to be female and two stripes indicated male. Or I may have that backwards.... I don't have rouens anymore to test it.

The stripe thing is how you tell rouen's from mallards, not male from female.
2 stripes = a rouen.

Here is one I raised...

 

[rebecca100]

Some rouens have only one stripe. It will have part of another often, but only one full. Back a long time ago I raised rouens, but it has been years ago.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

My first poultry sale for 2010 is tentatively set for tomorrow, weather permitting.

I'm selling 5 Bantams - 3 hens that have no roos, and 2 roos that have no hens.
I'm selling my Royal Palm Tom Turkey.
I'm also selling 4 pullets that are last summer's chicks.

Grand total of the sale? $80

I don't feel that's too bad for my first poultry sale of the season. I asked for what I felt were fair prices, and she didn't ask me to come down on any of them.

The lady coming is also a repeat customer from last year. She was my first real customer, and she had purchased some of those 300 RIR chicks I had last year.

If you're wondering my prices, I had put the bantams at $5 each. They are pet quality only, so I felt that was a fair price. The pullets are just starting full force into their first laying season, so I priced them at $10 each. And, I told her $15 for Lance. I sold turkey hens for $25 a piece last year, so I felt $15 for a tom was reasonable.

No haggling, no hassling, she was super polite and said, "That sounds good to me!" and said she'd like to pick up tomorrow, weather permitting.

That $80 is going to put a nice dent in my March feed bill.

 

[Up-the-Creek]

Congrats Aly!!