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

[ShrekDawg]

You have no clue.

Welcome to the thread!

That gif is just scary

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

 

[Kiki]

They are here.
I am letting them warm up on the counter now, they spent the night in a cold car.

 

[Kiki]

 

[RUNuts]

Those look white in this light. I thought you mentioned blue eggs?

 

[Kiki]

Those look white in this light. I thought you mentioned blue eggs?

Two are light blue.
The picture sucks.

I'm almost ready to set them.

 

[Kiki]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/horse-triplets.1295062/

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yessssss can’t wait!!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Although who’s eggs are these? Don’t they want them for eating or something? Lol

 

[NanaKat]

So my ducklings are causing a horrible smell now. They grow up so fast.

That's what I have. A 50gal clear storage tote. We have the top cut out and replaced with hardware cloth. It's what we made for our chicks. We just used it with our ducklings as well just, of course, not at the same time. The biggest issue we had was figuring out a way to keep them from getting water everywhere. We ended up doing this.
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A baking dish with a baking rack over top of it. It was lined with a pee pad but we only used what we had left over. And we cut out a couple holes, 1 on each side, of a gal jug for them to dip their heads in but not their bodies. They still splash quite a bit of water but it kept it from going into the rest of the brooder. The bottom pic is how we kept the jug in place. It is just a small bungee cord strap thing. We learned the hard way that they can, and will, move the jug of water and knock it over. As for food, you can see in the back ground that we have a feeder that we have hanging from the top that worked just fine for them until they got bigger. Minimized spillage. They grow so fast!
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I do pretty much the same thing. A tote for the first two weeks equipped with water jug over a rack and collection pan. I then move the suckers to a big metal goat water tub set up on 4x4 boards. Line it with sections of old t-shirts and the top those with wood shavings. Water tub set up on a screen rack with a collection tray underneath.
Clean by lifting the corners of the t-shirt fabric and dump the dirty shavings in a wheel barrow for the garden.
Replace with clean t-shirt pieces. You can go several days by sprinkling a clean layer of wood shavings on top of the soiled ones.
Fo feed, I use a gallon dog self feeder with a bowl attachment. Set that inside a tray for catch the fallout feed. Chickens get that fallout in a scrap pan later...or set it out for the wild birds.

Informal poll, when I ordered chicks, I went to the PO near work and got their "will call" address and had the chicks delivered to THEM. Letty called me promptly at 7AM to say come get the package. Intend to do again next time. Eggs, chicks and other important stuff. Too much disappears from the mailbox route.

Since this is available everywhere in the States (Batty is out at the north pole and I don't know if there is a PO on her way to the toy workshop), make use of it.

You also get to meet some interesting postal employees who love chicks. Saves the chicks the time in the mail truck and weather.

Does anyone else use the will call? Why not?

I always take a card to my post office with my contact information on shipped eggs, etc. ... not all shippers put your second phone contact number on the box. We have a great small townpost office.

@dpenning I can start walking my neighborhood pond... Where my ducks live and look for eggs.
I can but I'm afraid of the goose and just recently a new mean goose arrived so now there are two meanies that don't let me get out of my car.
I have never seen an egg there before. I think someone else steals them already.

Wild ducks and geese cover their eggs with debris like leaves and twigs to camoflage their nest. You have to look for them in areas under tall grasses, bushes, fallen limbs. Not all will lay their eggs near the water...those are usually ooopsies. Carry a cane or stick with you when you walk there. The geese will leave you alone.

Our Canadian goose pair is back again. They already tell us their feed tire is empty. Lucy and Goosey have been with us for nearly 20 years. Several times their nest has been raided by coyotes. Hoping they have a good clutch this year...only one gosling last year. Did you know geese mate for life?