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

[Kiki]

It kind of looks like an embryo to me .-.

There was a teeny tiny red/blood.
No embryo.
I think the picture sucks...it doesn't show what I see here.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Are these Easter Eggers?
You went and bought some?How many total?
He (below)is going to be a boy..I just know it!
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@RUNuts So are you going to eat chick feed with me for a week if it's not a male? Need to send new pics of my guy and see if any of you still think I will have to eat chick feed.

 

[Cyprus]

In class watching a female student flirt with the male teacher

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

poults with chicken 'mom'...Learning to roost at a week and a half

 

[Ursuline Chick]

In class watching a female student flirt with the male teacher

This reminds of what DD's reaction would be to this situation. Good for you, I am really proud of how you realize how wrong this is.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

We have a plan for wildfires. I wish it was a better plan. Basically is grab my laptop, a box of paperwork, a box of camping gear, and ALL the animals and get out. Ugh. The reality of natural disasters is terrifying.

I just wanted to share with someone that may appreciate it, but in the past 2 weeks I scored 4 free windows, which means my raised garden beds are becoming hot boxes! Which mean I can actually start planting soon!

And apparently I cannot upload the photo

Cool.
I scored a bunch from the dump (there's a take it or leave it section). Planning on doing the same thing.

 

[PirateGirl]

Ok, my phone has been giving me trouble all week. I will try pics on the computer instead.

Kiki, I'm sorry about the quail eggs. I blame the egg source, not the incubator, because we all know you have learned how to incubate by now! I hope your last two hatch.

So here is a duckling picture, but they are already way bigger than this. I am hoping to move them outside in like a week. I think they are between 4 and 5 weeks old now and I'd say they are half feathered.

I had a not so good "see no touch" setup so the ducklings could have time outside and the rest of the flock could get used to them. The drake reached through the fencing and grabbed a duckling by the neck and tried to kill it, so between thunderstorms I built an addition on the duck coop using some pallets. The ducklings get time in this daily, but if the hens accept the babies and don't try to harm them, then the drake will move into the isolation pen and the ducklings can move in with the adult girls and I can get rid of the stinky brooder in the house. I seriously don't know how people do it with more ducklings, just the two stink sooooooo bad! The AFrame was the existing duck house, the pallets to the left form about a 3'x4' run that shares a wall with the existing run and house. Maybe one day I can actually paint and shingle it all.

And here is my garden box. I had the box which is supposed to hold the good soil and keep the rabbits and prairie dogs out (in theory). I scored 4 windows recently and have been framing them out on the existing raised beds I have to make them hot boxes so I have a better chance at growing things in my crazy climate, plus a better chance at keeping critters out.

 

[Kiki]

In class watching a female student flirt with the male teacher

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Ok, my phone has been giving me trouble all week. I will try pics on the computer instead.

Kiki, I'm sorry about the quail eggs. I blame the egg source, not the incubator, because we all know you have learned how to incubate by now! I hope your last two hatch.

So here is a duckling picture, but they are already way bigger than this. I am hoping to move them outside in like a week. I think they are between 4 and 5 weeks old now and I'd say they are half feathered.

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I had a not so good "see no touch" setup so the ducklings could have time outside and the rest of the flock could get used to them. The drake reached through the fencing and grabbed a duckling by the neck and tried to kill it, so between thunderstorms I built an addition on the duck coop using some pallets. The ducklings get time in this daily, but if the hens accept the babies and don't try to harm them, then the drake will move into the isolation pen and the ducklings can move in with the adult girls and I can get rid of the stinky brooder in the house. I seriously don't know how people do it with more ducklings, just the two stink sooooooo bad! The AFrame was the existing duck house, the pallets to the left form about a 3'x4' run that shares a wall with the existing run and house. Maybe one day I can actually paint and shingle it all.

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And here is my garden box. I had the box which is supposed to hold the good soil and keep the rabbits and prairie dogs out (in theory). I scored 4 windows recently and have been framing them out on the existing raised beds I have to make them hot boxes so I have a better chance at growing things in my crazy climate, plus a better chance at keeping critters out.

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Cool, reuse of material, we try to do the same.

 

[Kiki]

Ok, my phone has been giving me trouble all week. I will try pics on the computer instead.

Kiki, I'm sorry about the quail eggs. I blame the egg source, not the incubator, because we all know you have learned how to incubate by now! I hope your last two hatch.

So here is a duckling picture, but they are already way bigger than this. I am hoping to move them outside in like a week. I think they are between 4 and 5 weeks old now and I'd say they are half feathered.

View attachment 1401114

I had a not so good "see no touch" setup so the ducklings could have time outside and the rest of the flock could get used to them. The drake reached through the fencing and grabbed a duckling by the neck and tried to kill it, so between thunderstorms I built an addition on the duck coop using some pallets. The ducklings get time in this daily, but if the hens accept the babies and don't try to harm them, then the drake will move into the isolation pen and the ducklings can move in with the adult girls and I can get rid of the stinky brooder in the house. I seriously don't know how people do it with more ducklings, just the two stink sooooooo bad! The AFrame was the existing duck house, the pallets to the left form about a 3'x4' run that shares a wall with the existing run and house. Maybe one day I can actually paint and shingle it all.

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And here is my garden box. I had the box which is supposed to hold the good soil and keep the rabbits and prairie dogs out (in theory). I scored 4 windows recently and have been framing them out on the existing raised beds I have to make them hot boxes so I have a better chance at growing things in my crazy climate, plus a better chance at keeping critters out.

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They are very cute little things!
Are they brown?