Nevadans? - Page 1192

I have a morning client, so I couldn't make it until 11am.  I might just miss everyone.    Sahara wants to go, but she's with her dad that day.  I told her, if it's really important to her, then have her dad or grandmother call me for the location.

My husband is even interested in going, though he doesn't want to buy.  I think we're up to our ears in poultry this year, but I can always make a list for next year and get names of who offers them.

UNLESS something happens to one of Sahara's ducks as they travel in the mail.  In that case, I'll be in the market for a cayuga cross or two.  What are they crossed with?

I have a morning client, so I couldn't make it until 11am.  I might just miss everyone.    Sahara wants to go, but she's with her dad that day.  I told her, if it's really important to her, then have her dad or grandmother call me for the location.

My husband is even interested in going, though he doesn't want to buy.  I think we're up to our ears in poultry this year, but I can always make a list for next year and get names of who offers them.

UNLESS something happens to one of Sahara's ducks as they travel in the mail.  In that case, I'll be in the market for a cayuga cross or two.  What are they crossed with?

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Originally Posted by pigtail21 

Well our blue swedish is really loud!!!  She was raised as an only duck then lived with Call Ducks and we thought she learned her noisy mouth from them but I think it is Swedish!!  But I only have one so not sure!

 

Hope to see you at the swap! :)
 

 

I'll have to get a few more opinions before I commit to one.  We live in the old Southwest, where I have a big yard but very close neighbors.  This is our first experience with ducks ever, though, so we're still going to see how it goes.  Both cayugas and harlequins are supposed to be fairly calm and quiet.

Well, I had a huge talk with the kiddos today.  Getting them to help out has been like pulling teeth lately.  I told them, I realize I've taken on a lot of extra projects that take a lot of extra work.  I know they would rather play.  Paid employment and schoolwork are mandatory, but gardens and chickens are optional things that we do to make life better.  And I asked them if they felt it was too much work, if I needed to drop some of my endeavors to produce things ourselves.  It would mean spending more money on food, and less on fun.  The chickens are my babies, and I'll do the work myself if I need to, but that means they can't eat or sell the eggs.  They said they'd try harder to pitch in, because they enjoyed the benefits and realized the importance.

Last year, we had a problem with Sahara's refusal to work in the garden when asked.  So we told her that she couldn't eat out of the garden until she helped with it.  And since I cooked with garden produce every day, that meant she had to cook her own food.  Luckily, I taught her how to cook a few years ago.  She held strong for two weeks, complaining about it, until she finally gave in and started helping again.  She admitted that the benefits were worth the work, and she wasn't going to coast on the benefits without offering help.
 

Except for my three EEs, yes?
 

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Originally Posted by BigDaddysMom 


You're a good mom.

  Thank you!  That makes me feel a lot better!  I wonder how long it'll take before the kids feel that way.  Another generation, maybe?
 

Finally!  Pics of Chicks!!!