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Breed Profile: Pilgrim Goose

March 14, 2019 · Tamsin Cooper · Geese, Poultry 101

The Pilgrim goose is a hardy, auto-sexing breed with excellent foraging and mothering skills that makes an excellent dual-purpose breed for homestead produce and pasture maintenance.

How to Add a Royal Palm Turkey to Your Flock

March 14, 2019 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Members Only, Poultry 101, Turkeys

A Royal Palm turkey can be easily integrated into your flock. Their requirements for diet, safety, and dust baths are similar to chickens.

Raising Peafowl in a Northern Climate

March 1, 2019 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Poultry 101

Follow one breeder’s journey toward producing green peafowl with the pure-bred phenotype but with the resilience and hardiness of their blue and white cousins.

Keeping Swans on Your Homestead

March 1, 2019 · Doug Ottinger · Poultry 101

If you have a small farm with a pond and live in a state that allows you to have them, keeping swans might just be a possibility.

Learn to Speak Goose

March 1, 2019 · Angela Ferraro-Fanning · Poultry 101

Learn to speak goose. Geese use a lot of different methods of communication. Learn the basics of understanding them with our guide.

Peace, Love, and White Homing Pigeons

March 1, 2019 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Members Only, Poultry 101

White homing pigeons (Columba livia domestica), which are often times advertised as white doves, can represent eternal life, love, faith, purity, and prosperity.

Pigeons Strike a Pose

March 1, 2019 · Backyard Poultry Contributor · Poultry 101

Bret Hartman has photographed everyone from comedian Will Ferrell to legendary actor Dustin Hoffman, so we challenged him with a new assignment: pigeons. He captured these stunning shots at the The National Pigeon Association Grand National Pigeon Show in Los Angeles (2015).