Please read carefully!  We are in the beginning stages of grading the young birds and taking our annual census, which means we have some information on availability of adult geese and ducks.  As we continue the grading process, we will continue to add birds to the listings below.  

THE FOLLOWING FINE QUALITY MATURE BIRDS will be available soon 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!

Please note that the following listings for geese, ducks and bantams is only a partial listing since we are just beginning the process of updating the birds that are available.  If you're interested in something not on the list, feel free to email or phone us regarding availability.

Geese  

• Brown African (photo):  The winningest line of Africans over the last three decades. Show quality birds at $100, $150, $200, & $250 per bird.

• Giant White Embden (photo):  Show birds at $100, $150, $200 & $250 per bird.

• Buff African (photo): Pairs and females available.  Breeder quality at $100/bird.  Show quality at $150, $200 & $300/bird.

• Tufted Roman (photo): Pairs, trios and quads:  Breeder quality $55/bird.  Show quality at $100, $150, $200, & $250/bird. Elite show quality at $300/bird.

 

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