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

[Kiki]

Chocolate!

I second the Chocolate!

If I make this kind then Batty will just steal it.

 

[Kiki]

I had one hang around for a couple of weeks. When a pair of mule deer fawns jumped over the fence and almost landed on him, he decided it might be safer to be somewhere else.

You always have awesome photos!

 

[Kiki]

Well, quail are good but now you have to raise pheasants....their way more tasty!

Are they loud?

 

[NanaKat]

My pheasant weren't loud, but they sure were flighty.

Going to get a near freeze here Monday after rain on Saturday and Sunday...so time to move all my tropical plants indoors. Got to mow today after the dew dries off too.

BBL

 

[Kiki]

I have 9 females and 1 male quail. (I still am not sure about 3 of the 9 females. Two could be male, but for now I think female.)
How many eggs am I going to get today?

 

[007Sean]

Are they loud?

Ring necked can get pretty loud the other ornamentals are usually quite, breeding season is really the only time they get worked up and call all day long. But most peeps wouldn't know what was making the noise unless they have heard them before...my neighbors don't complain and it gets pretty loud with around 50 cock birds crowing at the same time.

 

[R2elk]

You always have awesome photos!

Thank you.

 

[Kiki]

What is this bump thing?

 

[Sara L]

What is this bump thing?
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I think there's a thread about the nose bump, if I recall correctly the consensus was the bird probably bumped his upper beak area on something hard so a bump formed.

 

[007Sean]

Sometimes they have those growths...doesn't seem to bother them and I don't think it's like a cancerous growth. I think but don't know for sure, that they seem to appear on those that got pecked when they were just hatched and for a couple of weeks of age.

I've noticed it on my pheasant chicks and it becomes very pronounced if it is bleeding from the pecking, kinda like scar tissue! That's just my observation, I don't know with absolute certainty.