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

[Kiki]

One of my students was Mary Vagina because her mother liked the word the nurse used when she delivered during the Christmas season. The nurse talked her out of Merry fortunately. Hubby knew her later a "Baby V" as one of the prostitutes arrested in the downtown district.
Other students who went thru my inner city 5th grade center were Formeca Dynetta R...., Sky Blue Cloud, Candy Crumb, Imhard Wood, Pa-Jamah N... I was told by the school counselor that often non-English speaking parents would like the sound of words in the newspapers (ads, sports pages) or a song they heard. And someone would phonetically spell the name.


When the males get their peach colored breast feathers, begin chasing the girls and/or begin alarm vocalizations.

Since you have several colors, keeping a pair of each color would be fun.


Look up Coturnix quail....there should be an audio file of the Co-trrr-nix call of the males. Kind of cute.


I have and LG I use as a hatcher, icu brooder. I have three Hovabators too. Love both. Be sure to get replacement water reservoirs. You can change one out quickly for a new hatch. Then clean and sterilize the used one to use again later. Also a replacement motor for your egg turner is helpful. Got most all my hatching "stuff" from Amazon.

I only have three of the 13 that are a different color.
One of each.


I did just finally update the "My Coop" link on my profile thing to go to the day's photo album.
My Coop

 

[Kiki]

Hope this works. When the ground is dry I’ll move some plywood to the sides to block the dogs insanity. Poultry are their meatballs.

Lucy the big old dummy.
I just love those two dogs!


STREET!
They are huge already!

 

[Tesumph]

Anyone know how to contact a lost homing pigeons owner?
Trying to catch it now, unsure if the band has useful info or not.

 

[Kiki]

Notary putting a piece of 1/4 inch grid wire over the wire already in place. Their little poops will quickly go thru to your catch tray. Your biggest mess to clean up will be the water container.


I use a college note book for keeping records.


Grew up with Harry Bellefonte music....my mom loved his music. I have several of his CDs.

Still catching up.

I like this idea better!
I am going to go get some 1/4 inch!
Perfect!
WOOOTTTT!

 

[Kiki]

Anyone know how to contact a lost homing pigeons owner?
Trying to catch it now, unsure if the band has useful info or not.

@biophiliac

 

[Kiki]

Anyone know how to contact a lost homing pigeons owner?
Trying to catch it now, unsure if the band has useful info or not.

Catch him!!!!!!!!!! NOW!

 

[Kiki]

I've been taking the ducklings outside (consistently) for the last week or so. The chickens still show interest in them every time I do, mostly because they're trying to see what they are "eating" (the gluttons!), but aren't "hovering" like they used to. Is this a sign of acceptance, or at least ambivalence? The other day one of the pullets thought it was a good idea to try and perch up on the hardware cloth.
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I was surprised it hadn't happened before now. Well, then another pullet decided that was a great idea. Then the weight of the 2 sent them tumbling inside with the ducks. They completely ignored the ducks and just went to grazing on some feed that spilled. And the ducks completely ignored the chicks. How long should I wait to try introducing them without the fencing? Supervised of course. I still wouldn't leave then out alone right now. They are way too little yet. Altho they are growing! They were tuckered out after being outside for a couple hours yesterday and then bathtime afterwards.
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I lifted the top so I could get a better pic, instead of it being thru the wire. They were trying to dog pile. The Pekin are really losing a lot of their yellow. The Rouen are getting in lighter brown feathers.

Every yellow duck I see I instantly say awwweee Street Food!

I'd remove the fence today.

 

[RUNuts]

You old flatterer you. I can't possibly imagine you staying on the nice list for the whole year.

Think positive! All these negative vibes are getting me down. Think of the spirit of the season and all that jive. Have some rum.

Hey? Christmas is only four months away!

Four short months. She is just grumpy when in high production mode. The elves get on her nerves.
Never understood why Santa moved to Canada...

It could be two days and he'd still fail. Spectacularly.

Thank you for your faith in me!! I try to do all things spectacularly! I'm a spectacular kind of guy.

Floppy broody made it a whole week on the nest. I'm thinking of thinking about candling sometime in the next week or two. I don't see her off the nest at all like I did last spring. She is stuck on like a bandaid.

And we are starting to molt.

 

[Kiki]

Hey, @KikisGirls aren't you in love with the quailies?!

All I do it sit and watch them.
ALL DAY.


I'm going to be in trouble because now I don't want to put them outside at all!

 

[RUNuts]

Anyone know how to contact a lost homing pigeons owner?
Trying to catch it now, unsure if the band has useful info or not.

Band should have owners phone number. Just call. They will come get him.