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

[Molpet]

I am going to stick to larger non-flying ducks. I lost my little Luna today. I took my dogs to their pen to go potty and she flew over into it. My Maggie got her and it took me too long to get her away from her. I finally did and she died in my arms as I held her. My hubby came home from work early, which was very sweet, to bury her. I sure am going to miss her loud quacking and seeing her circle around the yard.

 

[Kiki]

I am going to stick to larger non-flying ducks. I lost my little Luna today. I took my dogs to their pen to go potty and she flew over into it. My Maggie got her and it took me too long to get her away from her. I finally did and she died in my arms as I held her. My hubby came home from work early, which was very sweet, to bury her. I sure am going to miss her loud quacking and seeing her circle around the yard.

Oh no I am so sorry.

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

Oh no I am so sorry.

Thank you.

 

[Kiki]

Thank you.

Luna is the one you worked so hard to help when she was younger right? Or am I confused again?

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

Luna is the one you worked so hard to help when she was younger right? Or am I confused again?

That was Xena. Xena is a Rouen. She'll flap her wings and run but that is the extent of her flying LOL! Luna was the Mallard. Poor Annabelle, the newest addition, the Khaki Campbell, was so bonded with Luna. She keeps grunting for her.

 

[Kiki]

That was Xena. Xena is a Rouen. She'll flap her wings and run but that is the extent of her flying LOL! Luna was the Mallard. Poor Annabelle, the newest addition, the Khaki Campbell, was so bonded with Luna. She keeps grunting for her.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I am going to stick to larger non-flying ducks. I lost my little Luna today. I took my dogs to their pen to go potty and she flew over into it. My Maggie got her and it took me too long to get her away from her. I finally did and she died in my arms as I held her. My hubby came home from work early, which was very sweet, to bury her. I sure am going to miss her loud quacking and seeing her circle around the yard.

That was Xena. Xena is a Rouen. She'll flap her wings and run but that is the extent of her flying LOL! Luna was the Mallard. Poor Annabelle, the newest addition, the Khaki Campbell, was so bonded with Luna. She keeps grunting for her.

that’s so sad! I’m so sorry!

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

that’s so sad! I’m so sorry!

Thank you

 

[NanaKat]

I will gladly buy some Saxony duck eggs from you if you'd sell me some. PM me plz if you're willing.

Like @R2elk said I'm not NPIP yet...if that is defining for you.
Our weather here has been so crazy! I haven't separated the duck and chicken breeders into separate pens yet. I am running all my ducks together right now. The Saxony Morgan has Missy and two Pekin hens in his little split off group.
Morgan and Missy will be separated soon and I would be happy to send you eggs. May let him keep one of the Pekin hens too.
Right now, I'm working on moving and renovating the all the chicken breeding pens. Remember the bobcats that visited my pens last fall?
We have snow hitting tomorrow with 8 degree windchill.

My renovation progress has been stalled by freezing weather and rain/snow soggy ground. My garden is behind schedule and then there are early birthing cows and two stubborn heifers with their first babies. Mother Nature has thrown us a curve ball this year.

We've been stuffing one of the first time Angus moms in a squeeze chute with feed cubes in front of her so she will stand still for her little bull calf to nurse instead of kicking him off. We had to take her to the vet to assist in pulling her calf...she actually quit pushing! Vet said it is common with first time moms, but we have not experienced that before in over 50 years running cattle. She doesn't seem to want to mother her Bubby which is really frustrating. In addition, her first milk bag is small and milk production is not great...so after Bubby nurses, he gets a bottle too. This pair will stay in the barn lot until she decides to accept her bull calf.

Another first time mom is great, but her little heifer calf weighed about 35 pounds and was born in freezing temperatures earlier in the week and was chilled and really weak. We moved them to the barn stall and had to milk mom and tube her colostrum to the baby to warm her up. Now she is a Sassy little bunny hopper! Her attentive Mom has a great bag with lots of milk. After this snow, we will move them back to the pasture with the other first time spring moms.

The older experienced spring moms are birthing now too so we make status trips two times a day to their pastures too.
We will have 75 calves this spring and another 35 this fall.

Life on the farm is both rewarding and frustrating at times.

 

[NanaKat]

I am going to stick to larger non-flying ducks. I lost my little Luna today. I took my dogs to their pen to go potty and she flew over into it. My Maggie got her and it took me too long to get her away from her. I finally did and she died in my arms as I held her. My hubby came home from work early, which was very sweet, to bury her. I sure am going to miss her loud quacking and seeing her circle around the yard.

Sorry to hear about Luna. She was so lucky to have you!