Feb 2004 - 'Poof' and two appleyard drakes - they look like they're going somewhere.

Feb 2004, Later that same day.... Looks like an important meeting! (Actually, Poof is bowing to the other two - it is a submissive behaviour)

Feb 2004

Feb 2004 - Mostly appleyards with one Chinook in the foreground.

Feb 2004 - some of everything (appleyards, campbells, chinooks) and a Pilgrim goose.

Feb 2004

Anconas, Campbell, and a Pilgrim, Feb, 2004

Mostly Chinooks & Appleyards. Photo taken January 2004

Jan, 2004, evening.

Jan, 2004, evening.

Jan, 2004, evening.

Two appleyard drakes (March 2004)

April 2004 - three week old mixed-breed ducklings. The yellow one in the background is marked like a saxony.

April 2004 - a mixed bunch - 4 - 5 weeks old.

May 2004 - 3 ducklings and a female pilgrim - all the same age: about 1 week.

May 2004 - 1 week old.

April 2004 - 1 week.

Dec 2007 - Bailey with Loud Howard (royal palm turkey tom) and 'X' (exchequer leghorn hen)

August 2004 - a really mixed bunch - some are purebred, and some really not!

August 2004 - an early chinook drake.

August - an early Chinook duck and an Appleyard

October 2006. Old Martha (age 14) the duck and Legolas the guinea. Legolas lost a foot to frostbite.Martha is partially blind. They spent the winter indoors.

October 2006. Old Martha (age 14) the duck and Legolas the guinea. Legolas lost a foot to frostbite.Martha is partially blind. They spent the winter indoors.

June 2006. Part of the 2006 crop of ducklings. Almost all are Chinooks or Chinook crosses.

June 2006. Part of the 2006 crop of ducklings. Almost all are Chinooks or Chinook crosses. There are also one or two Saxony (throwbacks as I have not had purebreds since 2002).

Sept. 2007 - Loud Howard (royal palm turkey tom) and Chicken Little (a silver-laced wyandotte hen chick who was terribly undersized).

Sept. 2007 - Digit at 8 weeks looking pretty comfy at the ducks' feeding station.

Digit and the birds. November 2007. Digit is 13 weeks.

Jan 2008 - eggs allsorts. The ones on the far left are duck eggs, the white ones in the 'middle' are X-eggs (laid by our little leghorn), the buff coloured ones are laid by buffy the buff orpington; the really big one is a goose egg and the blue and green ones are laid by our ameracaunas - a.k.a. easter-eggers.

Duck and chicken eggs.

Sept 97 - appleyards, campbells, saxonies, and original anconas.

Sept 97 - appleyards, campbells, saxonies, and original anconas.

August 2004 - chinooks and a campbell. The campbell drake in this picture is 12 years old. Born 1992

August 2004 - 2 appleyards and several poorly marked chinooks.

August 2004 - chinook duck with far too heavy colour.

Notice the way the neck is kinked on the Campbell - this is a serious fault in a show bird.

Ducks & Trucks.

August 2004 - chinook duck with too much colour.

August 2004 - chinook duck with too much colour.

Nicely built chinook duck with too much colour.

Heavily coloured chinook duck.

August 2004 - nice chocolate colouring, but too much of it - there should be more white.

2 chocolate anconas and a campbell drake.

Africans and campbels.

Africans and an Appleyard. The frican in the middle is a gander.

Khaki Campbells and Silver Appleyards, 1989

Our first 5 African geese (l to r: Ted, Bob, Carol, Alice, Ray) 1989, with Appleyards in the background.

The Gang in Winter, 1995 That year we had a LOT of snow. The 'fence' behind them is made of posts stuck into a snow drift. It was necessary because the coyotes were simply walking over the real fences and getting in the yard. This was before we had Pyrenees tp protect our birds.

One of our 'signature' photos: a campbell and an appleyard.