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  1. Spifflove

    Luckless Ducker

    I have 3 eggs now. So I guess that's $1000 each? Plus my Buff Orps have started laying. Coldest day of year at 32 degrees, and first eggs of year. Curious combination.
  2. Spifflove

    Luckless Ducker

    I got my first Duck egg! I got my first Duck egg! And it was only $3,000! $3,000! And it was covered in poo.. But it was delicious! Delicious!
  3. Spifflove

    Luckless Ducker

    Thanks. But those chicks are getting bigger....
  4. Spifflove

    Luckless Ducker

    I suppose I will have to learn gardening and aquaponics. I didn't even mention my Duck Odyssey: First I bought "Quackers" a Pekin from the feed store. She got eaten by a very beautiful fox. Then I ordered 12 "Easter" ducklings from a feed store and he charged med $120!! They turned out to be...
  5. Spifflove

    Luckless Ducker

    Well I haven't excluded them yet. Mine are very cute with blue eyes and pink bills, still clean of caruncles. How they taste is key. Possibly just will keep a few for pest control and comic relief but not a dual-purpose duck. I suppose my "pink pekin" white layers and Muscovies would be a...
  6. Spifflove

    Luckless Ducker

    Thank you! That, and I didn't want my son to think that chickens came "from the grocery store!"
  7. Spifflove

    Luckless Ducker

    Well I decided to start some flocks for self-reliance. But I soon leared that I didn't quite get what I wanted. I got a flock but now I rely on feed purchases; so no luck in self sufficiency. Furthermore, in trying to narrow down my choices for Duck breeds I have come to the following list...
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