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

[NanaKat]

2019 is really not starting off how I wanted.

Hope things start improving for you soon!

I could probably put up a temporary fence to divide the area. I guess I will just have to bring him in at night until Noah decides to play nice? I don't have another pool or anything for him to play in but it'll hopefully only be for a short time. I will come up with something.

Looks an awful lot like a Mallard cross and may be a duck hen even with the green beak.
Try a plastic dish pan or a baby bath tub. My youngest three ducklings shared a plastic bath tub. Now they even try bathing in their water trugs.
To get your foundling eating might try green peas, tidbits if tomato, a little cracked corn, thinly cut green spinach or cabbage leaves.

 

[NanaKat]

speaking of daydreaming... mine is having a hen hatch quail
anyone ever heard of a chicken hen hatching quail? I figured she would break them

Do quail not hatch their own eggs? Are they not the maternal type?

I haven't had any go broody yet.

None of my Coturnix ever tried brooding their eggs, friends have had a few hens successfully hatch clutches. Their girls nested on the ground in their flight pens under brush piles. They placed teepee shaped covers over their nests under the brush for added protection.

Even a banty hen is too heavy a brooder than a quail hen. I slipped a few quail eggs under my tiny Serama broody, but she crushed the eggs within a few days.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Have you a way to pay for a place yet? First find a job....then apartment.

Not technically but I’m working on that next/simultaneously. I already have a plan. And I’m trying to save up all my money so I can save like at least 6-12 months rent first, aiming for 12. I already have a pretty good start on that. I have been saving all of my money from dog walking and depositing the checks right away into the savings account and then I also have a decent amount of cash I need to finally put in the bank too. I opened the account in September and have been saving every paycheck since (they used to pay me in cash every week but started using checks and every two weeks once I opened the bank account and they pay me a little more since they got Frank) as well as every birthday, holiday, and graduation check and cash. By saving everything, I have a pretty good amount built up already but I definitely still need to save more. I am not moving immediately anyway. Just thinking about possible places. But I am planning on staying here a while anyway because the minimum wage is a lot higher here than most places and I can save up faster. For example, here it just went up to $12 as of the 1st and is supposed to be going up to $15 by 2023 (so sort of a 5 year plan, he just signed it in June). Whereas PA is still $7.25 I think although according to Google they just passed a bill too so I think it may be $12 now too but that might just be for state employees. And idk about Ohio, where I am looking right now. But anyway, point being that I am not going to move anytime soon because the minimum wage is ridiculously high here and I would like to save way more than I have currently. I am obviously not going to stay the whole 4 or 5 years until it gets up to $15 but I am going to stay at least a little while longer so that I can save a lot first. I figure if I can save so much just from cash and dog walking, once I get a real job I will be able to save crazy fast. And I do have a plan for that. Planning on getting a real job like in retail or something and then once I have experience there then possibly applying to the Post Office or something. I really would prefer not to do any of that and to just get certified as a professional dog trainer and train dogs and/or get more dog walking jobs (all of which I am also planning to do) but I know that most apartments require you to have a real job with a good record or whatever first, at least to get approved, so I am going to have to suck it up and get one. And if I did the post office, it pays well and is government, and I could probably transfer anywhere I wanted if I worked there long enough, and it has good benefits and health insurance which is most important considering I can only be on my parent’s plan until 26. But you have to have work experience first, hence the other job. But I really do not want to work there. But I will if I have to and if it means I can move wherever. But I am still working towards the dog trainer and walker thing too. But I do have a plan. I would never just pack up and move somewhere tomorrow or anything without a plan.

I had been thinking that.... lots of effort spent on daydreams that could be spent on learning a marketable skill

Since when is trying to find someplace to live considered a daydream? The way I look at it is that it is better than browsing BYC and Twitter, texting, and watching Netflix all day and night which is what I have been previously doing. I am trying to find a place to live so I can move out as soon as possible because I can’t live here (with my parents) forever and almost all of the places around here are thousands of dollars a month which is why I am looking at other areas of the country that are a lot cheaper. Not necessarily because they are the best areas or somewhere I would actually like to be. I am not even looking at acreage anymore like I was before, just dumpy, cheap places so I can say I have somewhere to go. Yeah I do tend to daydream a lot, like all the animals I want to have or the acreage I want for my farm eventually and when I almost got on the list for a puppy, but I am not doing that anymore. I am simply trying to move out. Which I don’t think really classifies as dreaming, unless I want to live here or in a tent forever. And I am already trying to find a course to take or school to go to so that I can become a certified dog trainer and planning on applying to a bunch of jobs soon. Just because I post about trying to find an apartment a lot doesn’t mean I am not also looking into jobs or making a plan. Yeah, maybe it makes more sense to find the job first, but I am not even necessarily 100% moving to any of these places, I am mostly just looking at a lot of different areas to see what the market is like there and what I can afford. Not because I want to sign a lease right this second and move out tomorrow or next week. Just trying to see what’s out there and make a plan which I don’t really think is so bad or how it’s making childish daydreams.

Honestly since you want larger dogs I would keep my eye out for rentable houses. Granted that will mean that utilities aren’t usually included but a yard would be helpful.

After you find a job to support yourself first though.

Well, actually, I have decided to put the whole dog thing on hold right now. I do really want one but dogs are expensive and a lot of money a month and a year goes toward food, toys, harnesses/collars/leashes, vet care, etc. so I have decided that for now it would be better to just not get a dog for a while so I can truly save ALL my money and not just a small portion of it. Plus wherever I move to isn’t going to be a permanent residence or anything like that, I only want to live there like a year, or maybe a couple years, just so that I can get out of the house and not live here any longer. I am planning on buying a house eventually but I just want to move out and away from here first. And then if I like the area, I will stay and try to find a house nearby, or if not, I will look elsewhere, but I would like to try to stay East of the Great Lakes. It is a lot greener out here and I like green. But I just want to be able to move out sooner rather than later. But I am also planning on visiting all or at least a bunch of the places that I am considering moving to so that I know whether I would actually want to live there or not. Because a place might seem really great online but then it might end up being really boring or really unsafe or ugly or cold or something and plus this way I can see the safe and unsafe parts of town too and where certain apartment complexes are. But I’m not going to visit them yet.

And I am working on the job part. I already have a plan for all of that. I am not planning on moving yet or even this year. I just want to look and see what is available. That’s all. I am planning on getting a job or two first. I am not just going to pack up and leave immediately as much as I would love to. That is just plain stupid to leave without a plan. I may be doing it a little backwards but I am also simultaneously making a plan so I’m not only looking at apartments.

 

[Molpet]

Since when is trying to find someplace to live considered a daydream? The way I look at it is that it is better than browsing BYC and Twitter, texting, and watching Netflix all day and night which is what I have been previously doing.

true... and it is motivation
Glad you are saving your money
my brothers kids keep boomeranging back home because of money issues... he is 72 and HAS to work because of that.

 

[ShrekDawg]

true... and it is motivation
Glad you are saving your money
my brothers kids keep boomeranging back home because of money issues... he is 72 and HAS to work because of that.

Yeah, I think looking definitely gives me more motivation to move and save faster lol

And yeah, I don’t really usually spend very much anyway but I’ve been trying to spend even less and not really eat out or anything either. Trying to cut back on online shopping too but I don’t really do that that much.

And wow that is terrible!! 2 of my uncle’s kids are still at home and still have like nothing jobs (one works at a liquor store) and drink a lot and one hasn’t even been to the doctor since high school and they are all like 30s so I don’t ever want to be like that so I am trying hard now not to be lol

Also I am sorry, I am afraid I may have overreacted and been a bit rude with my previous post. I know that all of you guys were just trying to help and I am sorry for being so rude. It’s just I have had a lot of other people tell me similar lately too and I think sometimes I get a bit defensive, especially over the internet because it’s hard to tell tone. Like for example, I got some anxiety reading some of those posts and I think got a bit defensive from it because I think I took it as like almost an attack or slightly rude or something when I know that wasn’t the intention at all, especially since you guys are all so nice, but I for some reason interpreted it that way. And I think too that just because I have had some people say similar that sometimes it feels like I am being treated as a child or like I am stupid, which again I know was not you guys intention, but have had other people do that, so I think I just kind of assumed that was what you guys were doing too rather than just looking at it more objectively. I guess sometimes I am just a bit too quick to be overly defensive or assume something is negative that isn’t. So anyway, I am sorry for that.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Yeah, I think looking definitely gives me more motivation to move and save faster lol

And yeah, I don’t really usually spend very much anyway but I’ve been trying to spend even less and not really eat out or anything either. Trying to cut back on online shopping too but I don’t really do that that much.

And wow that is terrible!! 2 of my uncle’s kids are still at home and still have like nothing jobs (one works at a liquor store) and drink a lot and one hasn’t even been to the doctor since high school and they are all like 30s so I don’t ever want to be like that so I am trying hard now not to be lol

Also I am sorry, I am afraid I may have overreacted and been a bit rude with my previous post. I know that all of you guys were just trying to help and I am sorry for being so rude. It’s just I have had a lot of other people tell me similar lately too and I think sometimes I get a bit defensive, especially over the internet because it’s hard to tell tone. Like for example, I got some anxiety reading some of those posts and I think got a bit defensive from it because I think I took it as like almost an attack or slightly rude or something when I know that wasn’t the intention at all, especially since you guys are all so nice, but I for some reason interpreted it that way. And I think too that just because I have had some people say similar that sometimes it feels like I am being treated as a child or like I am stupid, which again I know was not you guys intention, but have had other people do that, so I think I just kind of assumed that was what you guys were doing too rather than just looking at it more objectively. I guess sometimes I am just a bit too quick to be overly defensive or assume something is negative that isn’t. So anyway, I am sorry for that.

Don't worry so much KDogg I understood you completely, and didn't get a defensive vibe. I just was in the middle of taking care of the chickens and horses so I couldn't respond. It's good to have plans set up! I love plan making.

 

[Kiki]

Yeah, I think looking definitely gives me more motivation to move and save faster lol

And yeah, I don’t really usually spend very much anyway but I’ve been trying to spend even less and not really eat out or anything either. Trying to cut back on online shopping too but I don’t really do that that much.

And wow that is terrible!! 2 of my uncle’s kids are still at home and still have like nothing jobs (one works at a liquor store) and drink a lot and one hasn’t even been to the doctor since high school and they are all like 30s so I don’t ever want to be like that so I am trying hard now not to be lol

Also I am sorry, I am afraid I may have overreacted and been a bit rude with my previous post. I know that all of you guys were just trying to help and I am sorry for being so rude. It’s just I have had a lot of other people tell me similar lately too and I think sometimes I get a bit defensive, especially over the internet because it’s hard to tell tone. Like for example, I got some anxiety reading some of those posts and I think got a bit defensive from it because I think I took it as like almost an attack or slightly rude or something when I know that wasn’t the intention at all, especially since you guys are all so nice, but I for some reason interpreted it that way. And I think too that just because I have had some people say similar that sometimes it feels like I am being treated as a child or like I am stupid, which again I know was not you guys intention, but have had other people do that, so I think I just kind of assumed that was what you guys were doing too rather than just looking at it more objectively. I guess sometimes I am just a bit too quick to be overly defensive or assume something is negative that isn’t. So anyway, I am sorry for that.

No girl...none of us here are being rude or ugly.
We adore you and want to see you do well. You crack us up...you are funny!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Don't worry so much KDogg I understood you completely, and didn't get a defensive vibe. I just was in the middle of taking care of the chickens and horses so I couldn't respond. It's good to have plans set up! I love plan making.

No girl...none of us here are being rude or ugly.
We adore you and want to see you do well. You crack us up...you are funny!

Thank you both!! I am glad that it did not come off that way because at the time I thought it did and felt bad right after typing it. You guys are always so nice and I knew you were not being rude or nasty or anything, I guess it was just the wording of the one, idk, but I knew you guys would never be mean in a million years. Sorry for ever even remotely thinking that

and awww thank you, that is very sweet.

 

[Kiki]

Thank you both!! I am glad that it did not come off that way because at the time I thought it did and felt bad right after typing it. You guys are always so nice and I knew you were not being rude or nasty or anything, I guess it was just the wording of the one, idk, but I knew you guys would never be mean in a million years. Sorry for ever even remotely thinking that

and awww thank you, that is very sweet.

No more school. (for now)
Job.

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

This isn't the greatest video of her, yes I am saying her, voice. She is so skittish and doesn't trust right now. But I have heard her officially quack. No rasp and loud. She has a deep quack like my Xena. Anyway, I am very confident in saying it is a she. Now I have to come up with a name for her and try to get her to learn to trust me. We have Noah, Xena and Luna. I asked my hubby how about Maya? He said NO. I said Reba? He said NO. PFFT! How about Darla? He said do huh? I said Darla. Like from the little rascals. (it was a smidge before my time but am still familiar with the show. Am showing my age here lol). He said Maybe. We'll come up with something.

ETA:
Would help if I actually included the link. LOL!