Your ducks are really trusting you! - I could have touched Pinballs babies last year, but she was already a nervous wreck and i didn't want to stress her more than necessary.
I am surprised that there was no sudden ray of poop involved. That's usually how they deposit their poop six feet away from the brooder or three feet up at the wall. :sick
Maybe calls are different, but all the duckling i had turned into poop-snipers when the backflipped and even some of my...
I observe and read a lot of books, actually too many, that's why my belly has grown out of shape. I still have a precious six-pack, but it is now hidden under a protective layer.
The texture of a dux-egg is different, compared to a xicken-egg: The White is firmer and the yolks are creamier, even when boiled "hard" they stay creamy. There is much more fat in a dux-egg! - The "good" fat, of course.
Remember when eggs were deemed »unhealthy«? 🤯
No skunks in Europe!
Fortunately i had only one encounter with a skunk here in the US:
We were sitting outside in our backyard in Houston, grilling, eating, drinking when a skunk approached us. Told my wife not to move at all, just sit still!
The animal sniffed at both our feet, turned around and
If you eat store bought xicken eggs, there will be a slight difference in the taste between the eggs of different stores, different grade (garbage, junk, harmful, toxic, hazardous waste) and from week to week. One egg does not taste exactly like another one, even though the food industry wants...
I bet: I cook you an average size dux-egg and an egg from a happy xicken to perfection, peel them and serve them to you. You won't be able to taste a difference.
That »eeeewww! Dux-Egg!« is all psychological.
Do not feed your ducks green salad together with red-kale and cat-food!!!
Mine had that in their supper-bowl for the last three days and they shoot green stinky liquid out of their stern six feet away.
Including the appetite-ruining sound effects!
And the smell made the stink bugs run for...
That is a no-go for calls then! - My ducks are free ranging on IDontKnowHowManyAcres and i cannot cover all that with netting. And we have red-tail- and red-shouldered-hawks. The crows are standing guard though, but sometimes a hawk manages to sneak through and to scare the carp out of the ducks.
As said, i have three »bellybuttons« here that on some days i could grab, throw against the nearest wall, grab them again, throw them against the wall again and so forth. Since them i know that indestructible »corkscrews« are no myth…
I bet those little drakes know how to use their corkscrews, but what would happen to a tiny little call duck hen when one of my Franken-Drakes develops an appetite for small duck-girls?