This brief article provides a summary about the Silver Appleyard duck covering topics such as the breed’s history, the confirmation and colour description, typical uses and some fun facts. It is definitely a brief overview about the Silver Appleyard duck but provides some basic information about this great duck breed. History Silver Appleyard ducks were […]
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This article on the Toulouse Goose is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. The massive breed of domestic goose known as the Toulouse was developed in France in the Haute Garonne region as early as the 1400’s. A principal city in that region is the ancient town of Toulouse
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This article on sexing geese is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. I get between 20 and 30 emails each week containing questions related to waterfowl. Of that number, the one topic that consistently is the most numerous is the one related to the sexing of geese. Whether the
I have come across several posts from Ameraucana breeders asking if their chicks can be feather sexed. Feather sexing using sex-linked genes related to feather development is a widely used chick sexing method in the poultry industry. In order for feather sexing to be accurate, it must be specifically bred for and involves controlled matings
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There are so many different breeds of chicken to consider when trying to decide what breed you would like to start working with or have around the farm. You might want to consider the Rhode Island Red chicken though. This breed comes in both bantam and large fowl varieties, and there is a single comb
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This article on judging black ducks is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. There is a right way and a wrong way to do almost everything and that certainly is true of the judging of black ducks. While this article is directed most particularly at two breeds (the Cayuga
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This article on the Egyptian Goose is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. Ever since I became interested in exhibition waterfowl in the 1960s, the Egyptian goose has fascinated me. Easily the smallest of the Standardized geese, these natives of Africa exhibit traits that make them unique. They are
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This article on avoiding common pitfalls is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. It is my observation that we in the poultry fancy are being blessed with an influx of new fanciers, not all of them kids. As the Baby Boomers reach retirement age, many are looking to pick
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This article on natural incubation is being republished from Acorn Hollow Bantams website with permission from Lou Horton. This time of year, my email brings many questions about incubation such as what kind of incubator works best, and does this breed or that breed make good setters and parents. Incubators and the pitfalls of managing
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The recent Avian Influenza detections across North America and Europe have fiercely proven that effective biosecurity basics are important to all owners of birds, no matter your scale. It is important to note that most developed countries pride themselves on claims of freedom to the international community related to the presence (or lack thereof) of
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The APA works to support the community breeding and raising Standard Bred Poultry in all its phases with a goal on breeding to the Standard of Perfection.