Please Note:
At this point in our season, we are taking orders in all
breeds. For a complete listing of birds and quality
possibilities, see our
Adult Birds Price List page. Since we are currently
raising the young birds that will be available, we will not know the
quality levels until the birds have matured adequately for grading.
If you are interested in ordering adult stock, we recommend sending
in your order (along with a deposit) to get in line for what will be
available. After the birds have been graded, customers with
deposits in are contacted regarding availability. If we are
unable to fill your order, you will receive a full refund of your
deposit unless you prefer credit. If you have questions
regarding shipping costs, you can contact us for an estimate.
THE FOLLOWING FINE
QUALITY MATURE BIRDS are available now for shipping or pick-up
at the farm. Some of the varieties offered here are extremely
rare. Those varieties followed by an asterisk* are sold
only as adults.
CUSTOMERS HAVE BEEN
REPORTING MANY FINE WINS from the summer and fall shows.
Just a few examples: we sent Gray Calls to a customer
who received them on a Friday, he took to them to a show the next
day and won Champion Waterfowl. Another
customer won Reserve Bantam Waterfowl at the 2009 APA National in
Illinois with a Black East Indie he raised out of a pair we sent him
last fall. A Magpie out of our stock took Reserve Champion Waterfowl at the APA
Semi-annual in Hamburg NY in May of this year. Our waterfowl have many generations of
careful breeding behind them, which makes it possible for us to offer world-class
show birds in addition to excellent foundation breeding stock to enrich your breeding program.
BECAUSE OUR MAIN MISSION
has been the preservation of rare breeds, we have kept multiple
strains of each breed we work with here at The Preservation Center.
Unfortunately, due to the drastic increases in the costs of feed,
bedding and other supplies needed to maintain such a large number of
waterfowl matings, we are needing to reduce our number of breeding
birds. This means we are offering some premium mature ducks
and geese that in the past would have been kept for our breeding
program.
TO INSURE THEIR HEALTH,
our flocks are routinely blood tested and inspected by the
Oregon Department of Agriculture. Unless a customer requests
otherwise, we worm all birds leaving The Preservation Center with
Ivermectin so that you will know the last time they were wormed. All the birds offered here been
carefully graded according to their breed standards and are priced
accordingly. See
Adult Birds Price List page for details of price categories.
IF YOU FIND ANY BIRDS
listed below that you want, reserve them by calling or
e-mailing us. We will hold them for you if payment is
received within 5 workdays.
THANK YOU TO ALL who
have purchased stock from the Preservation Center over the years and
thus helped finance our mission to save some of the world's rarest
varieties of domestic waterfowl from extinction. We could not
do this work without you!