GUINEA HEN

If you think they look silly, wait until you hear them!

PEACOCK ON DISPLAY

This peacock was displaying in a chicken coop. His audience was unimpressed.

BLUE SWEDISH AND WHITE PEKIN DUCKS

BROWN CHINA GOOSE IN THE SNOW

Photographed in Fort Morgan City Park ina light snowstorm.

BROWN CHINA GOOSE PAIR

China geese are descended from the Asiatic swan goose. One year a feral swan goose visited Fort Morgan City Park in the company of Canada geese. It lacked the knob on the bill and flew well. But it's big butt belied a domestic ancestry.

CANADA X TOULOUSE HYBRID GOOSE

The faint head pattern shows its Canada goose ancestry. Fort Morgan City Park, where this bird and several siblings reside, has both graylag and swan-goose derived domestic birds, either of which might represent the other side of his parentage.

Rouen Duck

I am using the British terms "drake" for male and "duck" for female. Rouen's are a French meat breed derived from mallards.

ROUEN DRAKE

Rouens are a meat breed that resemble beefy mallards. They are too heavy to fly.

White pekin drake

The white pekin is a Chinese breed and widely grown for the table ("Long Island ducklings"). They have lost their breeding instincts and the eggs must be hatched in incubators or under a brooding chicken.