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

[RosieR]

I'd give you one

Take all the water out and start over? Add a small dish of uncooked rice and see what happens.

No water, I plugged it in dry, it’s been running for 16h.
Rice may work.

 

[Kiki]

No water, I plugged it in dry, it’s been running for 16h.
Rice may work.

Try it and let us know if it does work.

 

[sdm111]

@sdm111 have you ever or do you know people who have successfully kept them with hens? I'm not opposed to giving him his own space just more interested in integration into my flock if there's a chance for it to work. Also I've read many many times that game birds are actually less aggressive roos than other breeds towards humans. Do you find this to be true with yours?

very docile especially the blues. People think they are mean but they couldn't be more wrong and to be frank back in the day (gamebirds is what Kiki is raising ) the very last thing a handler in the pit wanted was a human aggressive cock strapped with weapons turning on him. So yeah it was what it was. Now with that said you'll get a man fighter every now and then but it's very very rare. When people see mine for the first time they always say how calm and gentle they are cause layer folks usually have a preconceived notion that they see on tv with rescue groups saying how terrible they are and they couldn't be more wrong that's a main reason I have mine to try to show people how great they really are cause they have such a bad rap

 

[casportpony]

Looks like I gotta do a duck necropsy. Duck just dropped dead.

 

[RosieR]

Try it and let us know if it does work.

Rice is in. I’ll update in a few hours

 

[sdm111]

As far as integrating If he does not as a stag I think you'll have better luck when he cocks out about 2yrs when he matures. When they're young (not sexually mature) they kmow no better

 

[jwyles]

We have arrived! Not glamping but certainly not roughing it. And no I didn't drive, so know lectures about being on my phone while driving.

 

[Kiki]

Looks like I gotta do a duck necropsy. Duck just dropped dead.

I'm sorry.


pictures and video?

 

[Kiki]

We have arrived! Not glamping but certainly not roughing it. And no I didn't drive, so know lectures about being on my phone while driving.

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. I love it! Have fun.

 

[Conan]

Spoiler: Art. Open at your own peril, there's a lot and it's all terrible.

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New oil painting. Hasn't dried yet, which doesn't help the streaky look.

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One of my first watercolour projects. The purple unicorn was not in the reference, but I was bored, so...
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The first watercolour project I did. Iris of some sort, I think. This was 2016-ish?
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Experimenting with different eye and eyebrow shapes.
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My wall of shame fame.
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This is as far as I've gotten on the promised art series. I know I stink. Badly. I don't remember when I did this, but it has to have been at least a year ago.

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Random dog I did. Not mine.
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Tucson, my old WH drake.
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Duckling I did from a stock picture. After attempting to draw all that fuzz, I came to the firm conclusion that ducklings should be shaved.
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Flowers
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Watercolour turkey.

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Watercolour of Pebbles, the greatest rooster ever (despite being a Silkie.)
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Pencil crayon and watercolour portrait of a bird.
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Still-life of celery in pencil crayon.
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Watercolour. This was done right after the one with the horses.
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This is by far the most interesting media I have used---coffee.
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Watercolour with a bit of acrylic.
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Shading test with new pencils.
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Acrylic rooster. This was several years ago.
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Pencil crayons, pen, and whiteout. Sebright rooster.
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A beach house. This was me trying to figure out how on earth to use watercolours. Again, this was 2016-ish?

Ignore the weird attachments. They're duplicates I can't figure out how to delete.

I love illustrations to the song the mostest. Beautiful.