➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Cryss]

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Is that a "Baby Butler" high chair? Looks just like the one I raised my 3 kids in. They're all in their 40's now.

This is one craaazy, fun, looong thread! I started reading into the wee hours last night. Started again this morning. I'm only on page 78! Hope I catch up before the pip happens!

 

[lilmillefleur]

I'm not even going to bother!
Just waiting for baby baluts!!!!

 

[Redhead Rae]

Good morning!

120 ish posts. I’m all caught up. Not much happened except a mild heart attack for Kiki overnight.

 

[debid]

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By the way, while a balut egg could be any species of bird, Mallard ducks are most commonly used
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Mallard eggs are blue. Definitely not mallard.

Frankly, I’m curious what kind of ducks they will be. Probably Pekin but maybe kahki Campbell or runner

From what I was reading, there is a duck equivalent of the production Leghorn called a "white layer". That's what I'd put my $ on.

http://www.metzerfarms.com/WhiteLayerDucks.cfm?Breed=White Layer&BirdType=Duck&ID=WHGOL

 

[chickencheeper]

I forgot about white layers! I love metzer, if I ever get ducks or geese I’m ordering from them

Mallard eggs are blue. Definitely not mallard.



From what I was reading, there is a duck equivalent of the production Leghorn called a "white layer". That's what I'd put my $ on.

http://www.metzerfarms.com/WhiteLayerDucks.cfm?Breed=White Layer&BirdType=Duck&ID=WHGOL

 

[Kiki]

Though it’s nothing like diamond swans chat thread in the beginning(post every couple seconds

 

[chickencheeper]

If you where a ponder than you’d understand

 

[Kiki]

I'm confused here. Can someone on this busiest of threads tell me how it is possible to hatch balut eggs? I mean, after all, who would incubate their duck eggs from the start for 15-20 days, pull them out of the incubator, put them in the refrigerator for a week or more, warm them up again and expect the embryo to still be alive?

In my Asian grocery stores it is the norm for live, fresh, uncooked balut (both duck and chicken) eggs to be sold. It is probably not normal for non Asian people to know what they are buying when they pick these eggs up.

This whole experiment was not expected.

 

[Cyprus]

Not much happened except a mild heart attack for Kiki overnight.

I'm learning about Heart Attacks right now.

 

[Kiki]

Damn, I go to sleep and I come back to 15 pages... LOL And now I have to go to work, so I can't keep up over the day. LOL
I just can't wait for these little wonders to hatch. I agree with @Blooie I think this whole thing is amazing... what these two have been through, and they haven't even been born yet!

HOLD!
Video is coming NOW.