Posts by grandma duck

My Pekin has been sitting on a dozen eggs for 38 days now.  I think there are no ducklings in them.  (They are not "clear" when I try to candle, but no changes in 20 days, no movement, etc.)   Do I call it time, and...

How devastating!  So sorry. Now I am really getting nervous about my Pekin broody hen.  She has been sitting for 24 days now.  What if she likes sitting on her eggs more than she likes what comes out of those...

I love the feet in the pic!  The mama feet.

Sorry.  Yes, that was one golden rat.  (Dumb emotions) If there were not practical people like you, we would all have to be vegetarians!  My son is practical, so we have oryx in our freezer.  (He loves our ducks,...

Good for you - I'm glad you are able to eat your livestock.  We just live on different planets.  I can only kill a creature if it is suffering (excluding most insects.)  I can skin a deer and butcher if it is already...

When I was a 4-H'er, a friend "won" a baby duck in a carnival game at the State Fair.  She lived in the city, so she gave me the duckling.  Grew to be a beautiful Pekin.  Being an 'only duck', we were her flock....

Years ago, I taught a Cambodian student and helped get some of his family out of a refugee camp.  Took a couple of years.  This boy's family was so grateful they wanted to show appreciation and "honor" me.  They brought...

 We love ducks (and geese). We eat chicken and we eat turkey.  We don't raise them, though.  I don't think I could ever eat a duck.    I know.  I know...people raise them for meat.  Ish!  Being...

Chickens are "officially" allowed now in the city limits of Albuquerque.  Roosters are not.  They crow.  Ducks quack.  Never heard a duck "crow" yet! No mention has been made about ducks, so sh-h-h--h.

 Years ago (I was a teenager) I inherited a fuzzy yellow duckling that a "city" friend won at the State Fair.  She was a Pekin, and followed me around.  One cold day I found her sick, so I brought her inside to warm her...