Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

We chowed down on the last of the raspberries. Those ever blooming plants were amazingly hardy….both the red and white varieties.

Sorry…didn’t mean to rant….just we see this crap with chicks and ducklings come spring and Easter. I never personify animals. I treat them with respect and in a humane manner whether they are a food source, work on the farm or a companion.

TomK ur dead on. Don’t you just hate all this Christmas puppy stuff now happening on Kijiji…..they are not a box of chocolates. My daughters grabbed a poodle x Jack Russell pup from a farm they worked on. It was a “Christmas gift” for the wife…no one bothered to house train….got tossed out to the ba...

We’re looking to bring on a pup as well. Kijiji is a real scam enabler. I enquired about the pup, with a bit of background info. I got 3 different confusing replies from 3 different people; 2 different phone number contacts and a weird send deposit email. I backed out ASAP. Our current aging pups co...

I’m certainly no expert, but we have the same for the first time. Our young friend next door has sexed ours to 100% score. He calls it a bubble on top, just before the beak. I don’t see evidence of that slight orange brown raising on your birds heads….my totally uneducated guess: they are female. By...

Isn’t that interesting. We just drove by there and both fields are full of donkeys and burros. Oh well….best of luck in your search.

Check out Primrose Donkey Sanctuary…..every time I drive by it I check out the gang…..

We used to do 50 birds a season. Transported to just outside Elora for processing as there was no one in the Haldimand / Norfolk area that would do a small number. Basically a day out of our lives as we had to stay up there and wait for completion. Our math wasn’t so hot given our travel time etc. W...

One yearling blue peacock $100
Two yearling white peafowl (unsexed) $150 each or both $250 (they are out of the same hatch and attached to one another)
Various 2021 peachicks…white, black shoulder, etc $70.00 each

I picked up some Partridge Chanteclers from Performance Poultry and they are developing into some nice birds. I know they are not the true heritage Chanteclers…..but I wanted them for their darker plumage.