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

[Mysimplewyominglife]

I dare you to get a turkey! No, don't!

I bought hatching eggs for turkeys on friday or saturday. only got 4 they going to end up dinner.

 

[PirateGirl]

Is is Thursday yet?
I just had to take a trip to buy a few things at my feed store...I saw this:View attachment 1322754

I keep hoping to come across this when I buy feed/etc. but every time I go it's straight run chicks I'm not interested in or they are sold out of everything. The one guy at Murdoch's keeps telling me about the geese they are getting. He has been telling me I need a few of these geese for a few months now. It's enough that I want geese, but from my reading, I am not equipped to handle them. As long as there are no ducklings, I'm not likely to bring anything home at this point.

 

[Kiki]

I keep hoping to come across this when I buy feed/etc. but every time I go it's straight run chicks I'm not interested in or they are sold out of everything. The one guy at Murdoch's keeps telling me about the geese they are getting. He has been telling me I need a few of these geese for a few months now. It's enough that I want geese, but from my reading, I am not equipped to handle them. As long as there are no ducklings, I'm not likely to bring anything home at this point.

My feed store had geese today too!
I should have gotten picture of them for you.
Check out 'my' ducks and geese here:
(They live in the neighborhood pond...they are not really mine)
2017 Ducks

 

[Kiki]

Is Peaking the correct spelling!?!

NOT!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pekin

My feed store is 100% idiot run.

 

[Kiki]

My feed store is 100% idiot run.

I must add that my feed store always flat out lies.
I have seen their shipping boxes labeled straight run...
they label everything female.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

I wondered how you sex ducklings? Vent like chicks? (I do know males have a penis unlike most birds. Well a visible one)

 

[Kiki]

I wondered how you sex ducklings? Vent like chicks? (I do know males have a penis unlike most birds. Well a visible one)

 

[PirateGirl]

One feed store has 2 big stock tanks with straight run of more breeds than I can count. The other feed store has like 6 stock tanks set up with separated breeds and pullets only (of if that breed is straight run it will say).

 

[Kiki]

I mentioned that I would look for this experiment the other day.
I just found it:
The Great SI (Shape index) experiment

 

[ronott1]

I mentioned that I would look for this experiment the other day.
I just found it:
The Great SI (Shape index) experiment

This is another of the debunked already old wives tails with poultry.

The egg shell is made in the shell gland and has nothing to do with gender. It does not make any sense and has already been found to be false by a lot of studies. Eggs are the shape they are because of the gland and the sex of the ovum cannot change that

Chickens are ZW genetics and not XY. A hen is born with all of her embryos being either male or female. Gender of each egg is set at the birth of the chick and what hatches out of the egg is 50\50 chance.

In contrast to the XY sex-determination system and the X0 sex-determination system, where the sperm determines the sex, in the ZW system, the ovum determines the sex of the offspring. Males are the homogametic sex (ZZ), while females are the heterogametic sex (ZW). The Z chromosome is larger and has more genes, like the X chromosome in the XY system.