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

[ronott1]

To balut, or not to balut.

To balut, or not to balut, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the ducks, quail and chickens of outrageous incubation, Or to take eggs against a sea of troubles, And by opposing hatch them?

 

[room onthebroom]

@RUNuts Just catching up on the puppies. Holy Crow, what an ordeal!!! They are super cute!!!

 

[Kiki]

All alive and no sign of attempted break in!

 

[Nyla]

Anyone ever use a crock pot heating element for their heat source? I took apart an old crock pot and plugged the heating element into the wall. Within 1 minutes it was getting hot. It's a 120v heat element.

 

[Morrigan]

I'm going to wait until May to see if I get a broody hen before I set any eggs. No one showing any signs yet, but I'm hopeful that the one surviving broody, Gimpy, from last year will go broody again. She has survived a birth defect, in which she doesn't have full use of one leg (hence the name), plus being bitten in the head by that bobcat. From the bite marks, she must have literally had her head in the cat's jaws. She's my spunky little hen and I'd love her to go broody again.

 

[Kiki]

Anyone ever use a crock pot heating element for their heat source? I took apart an old crock pot and plugged the heating element into the wall. Within 1 minutes it was getting hot. It's a 120v heat element.

Oh neat.
Put it in something, an ice chest and see how it heats it up!

 

[Kiki]

Anyone ever use a crock pot heating element for their heat source? I took apart an old crock pot and plugged the heating element into the wall. Within 1 minutes it was getting hot. It's a 120v heat element.

This dishwasher I've been eyeballing has to have some kind of heating element in it too.

 

[Kiki]

Anyone ever use a crock pot heating element for their heat source? I took apart an old crock pot and plugged the heating element into the wall. Within 1 minutes it was getting hot. It's a 120v heat element.

What does the thing from the crock pot look like?

 

[Kiki]

I'm going to wait until May to see if I get a broody hen before I set any eggs. No one showing any signs yet, but I'm hopeful that the one surviving broody, Gimpy, from last year will go broody again. She has survived a birth defect, in which she doesn't have full use of one leg (hence the name), plus being bitten in the head by that bobcat. From the bite marks, she must have literally had her head in the cat's jaws. She's my spunky little hen and I'd love her to go broody again.

Poor ole Gimpy.
She gets around ok?

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Poor ole Gimpy.
She gets around ok?

Hope she goes broody for you as well!!