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

[Kiki]

Six, final offer.

I’m gonna be an old lady when I graduate. Almost as old as Kiki.

Yes when you become a vet can you please make house calls to put old doggies to sleep and not charge an arm and two legs?

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[Sara L]

I did it!!
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I am officially pre-vet.

Congratulations!!!

 

[BantyChooks]

I did it!!
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I am officially pre-vet.

That's awesome news!! Congratulations. I knew you could do it.

 

[Kiki]

I got new ducks!
I see some new street foods and some runner ducks.

 

[Kiki]

@Tesumph

 

[RUNuts]

A duck that has been handled a lot from small age will be more like a pet than a standoffish one. Might have been the Easter duckling that got tossed.

Duck-date. She will let me get within a broom stick. Put the broom on her and she squats long enough for me to grab her. I will sit on the garden and she will eat within 5 feet of me. Totally comfortable to be that close with no worries. Eating grass waltzing, around the kitchen garden yard and doing duck stuff.

Only issue, she comes to the back door, gazes in and quacks constantly. quacking is fine. Great big slimy green poops on the door way concrete, I'm not a fan. Gonna have to hose this down. I've explained to her this is not proper duck-etiquette. Brooms just, well, they don't work well.

She is settling in. All according to the prophecy.

Duck fluffy feathers are so different than chicken or quail fluffy feathers. Luxurious. Beautiful plumage! Eh, governor?

 

[RUNuts]

Oh, I should have mentioned, we have a neighbor that constantly blows on his duck calls. The neighborhood is accustomed to constant quacking. from the neighbor. So, what duck? I'm blowing a duck call. Just now? A recording. I'm listening to a recording to get better...

 

[NanaKat]

Moved Maggie's last ducklings to the juvie duck pen today. They look small next to the older babes. There was a little bad girl bullying behavior after a duck quacker conference to decide who would make the advance.
This momma stepped in the pen, hands on hips and a frown sent the bully back to her siblings. Two food bowls to separate them and the youngens settled in a barrel coop for the night.

Hubby got his tractor stuck in the hay field when cutting hay. Had to take the bigger tractor down to pull him out.

Finished another batch of juice from the sand plums and another of the Ozark Premier plums....they just keep coming!

 

[Tesumph]

Thank you all. I’m very excited and very nervous. It doesn’t help that they admitted me literally as late as they possibly could.. the deadline to accept my position in the department is Monday.
My final for organic chem2 is on Monday, and then I have a weeks break before physics starts. Sigh.

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Interesting topic. I’ve had “heated debates” with hubby over this. So far in my life, I’ve never met a straight-A student who didn’t beat themselves up over poor grades and get incredibly stressed over school.
Perhaps that’s because I don’t have enough life experience, or maybe that’s just a testament to the USA’s twisted expectations of what makes a “successful” college student. The question that I’ve been mulling over is: is it possible to be a top ranking college student in a difficult and competitive field without being either a) stressed to the point of being sick and/or neurotic or b) an arrogant and cocky d-bag?

Either way, I don’t enjoy killing myself with stress, and I acknowledge that it’s a physically and mentally unhealthy way to live. I know there must be a middle ground somewhere, but I’m still trying to find it.

 

[Kiki]

Thank you all. I’m very excited and very nervous. It doesn’t help that they admitted me literally as late as they possibly could.. the deadline to accept my position in the department is Monday.
My final for organic chem2 is on Monday, and then I have a weeks break before physics starts. Sigh.

Interesting topic. I’ve had “heated debates” with hubby over this. So far in my life, I’ve never met a straight-A student who didn’t beat themselves up over poor grades and get incredibly stressed over school.
Perhaps that’s because I don’t have enough life experience, or maybe that’s just a testament to the USA’s twisted expectations of what makes a “successful” college student. The question that I’ve been mulling over is: is it possible to be a top ranking college student in a difficult and competitive field without being either a) stressed to the point of being sick and/or neurotic or b) an arrogant and cocky d-bag?

Either way, I don’t enjoy killing myself with stress, and I acknowledge that it’s a physically and mentally unhealthy way to live. I know there must be a middle ground somewhere, but I’m still trying to find it.

No...there is no middle ground. You will survive, I promise.