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

[Kiki]

Poor little sweety, hope she does well.

So ugly she's cute huh?

 

[biophiliac]

She is blonde like me!

That will change. See the dark wing feathers coming in?

 

[Kiki]

That will change. See the dark wing feathers coming in?

The darkness on the wings?
Yes I see.
I like her hair do right now!
Her blonde mohawk!
SHE ROCKS!
(is she a she?)

 

[biophiliac]

Poor little sweety, hope she does well.

So ugly she's cute huh?

Southerners don't say 'ugly', they say 'poor little thing'.

The darkness on the wings?
Yes I see.
I like her hair do right now!
Her blonde mohawk!
SHE ROCKS!
(is she a she?)

Can't tell gender yet. Not for quite a while.

 

[biophiliac]

The darkness on the wings?
Yes I see.
I like her hair do right now!
Her blonde mohawk!
SHE ROCKS!
(is she a she?)

If you look right below the back corner of the eye you can see a small dot which is the ear opening!

 

[Kiki]

Southerners don't say 'ugly', they say 'poor little thing'.

Can't tell gender yet. Not for quite a while.

She/he kinda looks like Crazy Lady's long nosed dog things!

 

[Kiki]

I noticed the dot!
I had not idea what it was though.

Cool!

 

[Morrigan]

I don't know what to think. Precious, but strange.

 

[Morrigan]

My current mama hen definitely noticed when I gave her new eggs. I waited till she took her daily break, then took away the 4 medium sized tan eggs she had been sitting on and replaced them with the 10 large blue eggs I had bought. Poor thing finished her break and went back into her little broody coop. Stopped dead in her tracks in front of her nest and stared at it. Turned around and ran back down her ramp into the run. Ran around in the run raising a fuss for a few minutes then went back in the house to stare at the eggs some more. In the end though she couldn’t resisted the siren call of a full nest. Climbed in and behaved beautifully all through the the incubation and hatch.

My hens never could count, but they did seem to know the difference between a real eggs and a fake egg. I had a broody sitting on 2 ceramic eggs, as I was going to have her foster chicks rather then hatch them out. Every day she would immediately move nest to wherever the other hens were laying real eggs. Only after I cleaned the real eggs out would she reluctantly return to her fake nest. She took 4 chicks with no problem tho, when the time came, so she didn't seem overly troubled about getting more chicks than eggs.

 

[RUNuts]

Good to know. Floppy left the golf ball nest to sit in the other nest box. I pulled 8 eggs out and moved the 3 golf balls. Fluffy-fluffy floppy. Broody day 3 - check.

@KikisGirls my dog house looks almost as beautiful as your quail house. I still need to do the trim work. Crazy Lady mostly approved. Puppies now tumbling over the edge of the pool/whelping box. Eyes open. Huge bellies waddling around on tiny legs. Tinsy little ruff-ruffs!

So far we have found homes for 5 and then the cuteness factor wore off. Still looking for 7 homes.

Put some dried meal worms in a plastic lid yesterday. Bluebirds haven't found the treats yet. The ones from a decade ago would be watching us as we put meal worms out for them. 10 steps away and here comes Daddy bluebird to get supper. Saw a blue shell in the nest today. Tempted to fish it out. Not yet though.