The Quack Shack

[YodaBat]

Good Morning everyone.
It's a great day on the farm in Chile.
Got the poly tube set. All that is needed is veg and poly film.
Enjoy the day.

 

[jaykayhuff]

Good Morning everyone!!!
@Muscovy Wunda at least you know he’s going to a place where he will be helped and rehomed!

 

[rjohns39]

Good Morning everyone!!!
@Muscovy Wunda at least you know he’s going to a place where he will be helped and rehomed!

Good morning Jaykay, have a great day

 

[Pyxis]

Afternoon all!

Today is the day! It's emu swap day! Gonna get my actual male, and the female is gonna go back home to the bison farm.

 

[rjohns39]

Afternoon all!

Today is the day! It's emu swap day! Gonna get my actual male, and the female is gonna go back home to the bison farm.

Good afternoon, Pyxis, have a great day... looking forward to pics

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good afternoon! Hope you all have had a great saturday so far! Been a busy one here.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

What have you been up to Patti?

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Was productive. I took this beautiful boy to a second chance group 3hrs drive away. They are sort of like a rescue group (and they do do rescues aswell,) but they specialise in rehoming dogs that aren't cut out to be working/herding dogs. It was a top of 7c (44f) so he rode inside the car with me the whole way and he was the best travel companion! Was a lonely drive home. But I did get a mix of a snow flurry and rain on windsheild home through the hills. The artic blast has given our ski slopes the best falls of the seasonView attachment 2300880

Is he a Kelpie? I wish I could have him

 

[Pyxis]

The swap has happened!

And it was a bit of a fiasco. Firstly, Ciara and the female chose literally right before we were doing the swap to take a mud wallow, so the female was nice and covered in mud for us when we had to grab her to load her.

Secondly, the male got loose. All the way loose. We had to chase him down and catch him which resulted in me having to go through the woods and get covered in burrs.

So I was muddy, and full of burrs, but I now have a male and a female and I should have chicks this year from them, fingers crossed.

It wasn't White Band that they delivered. I guess he was one the son was too attached to to sell. So I got Black Band, the other male. He was, of course, the craziest one, lol. We weren't even able to actually get a band on him at the time, so really he became No Band.

But here he is:

He's got a very pretty paler blue neck. He seems very interested in the wooded section of the pen - the place he was living in before was designed more for growing out and breeding and not really a 'pets' type thing, and it didn't have foliage or especially not a wooded section. So he's enjoying picking through the leaf litter, and I'm sure he's gonna enjoy the apples that fall off the apple tree that overhangs their pen. Ciara eats them whole if they're small enough, lol.

And here's Ciara grooming after her mud wallow. No better way to cool down on a hot day:

If you notice, she's got a little nick on her neck. I don't know if that's from her and other female fighting, since hormones are setting in, or if she caught herself on a branch or something. I put a little ointment on it and it should heal up okay.

Oh, and she got lots of strawberries today, which she was very happy about.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Is he a Kelpie? I wish I could have him

He is! Despite his scaredness he's the sweetest thing. We have 5 other kelpies, including this little lady who gets to live with chicken until she's big enough for work.