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

[RUNuts]

@Texas Kiki - know anyone local that would accept a large pot bellied pig? Being rehomed from a petting zoo for being mean to the goats. I've offered help with butchering. <may be too attached>

and the stupid band of hawks (8 hawks!!) are basically sitting in our yard all day long. It’s been a week.

Oh, those nice hawks are probably waiting for rats and squirrels. I'm afraid I'm dealing with a squirrel in the chicken feed issue. I'm not happy.

BUT the good news is hatch day is next Saturday, and the following week we are also picking up some pullets as well. We’re going to need them some older gentleman asked for 10 dozen eggs today we don’t even get to keep eggs for ourselves let alone being able to fill a 10 dozen order!

Make priorities. Family eggs first. Only excess to be sold. Having said that, I down sized because I was taking free eggs to the family last year. Another regular customer is VERY interested in these eggs and I'll be surprised if these girls keep laying at this rate. 13 girls and getting 10 eggs some days. We shall see where this goes. The extended family is asking for delicious, backyard eggs too. What did I create? A reason to keep more chickens??? Perhaps...

Besides the quail will start laying in 8 short weeks. Could be a solution. Like alcohol.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

@Texas Kiki - know anyone local that would accept a large pot bellied pig? Being rehomed from a petting zoo for being mean to the goats. I've offered help with butchering. <may be too attached>

Oh, those nice hawks are probably waiting for rats and squirrels. I'm afraid I'm dealing with a squirrel in the chicken feed issue. I'm not happy.

Make priorities. Family eggs first. Only excess to be sold. Having said that, I down sized because I was taking free eggs to the family last year. Another regular customer is VERY interested in these eggs and I'll be surprised if these girls keep laying at this rate. 13 girls and getting 10 eggs some days. We shall see where this goes. The extended family is asking for delicious, backyard eggs too. What did I create? A reason to keep more chickens??? Perhaps...

Besides the quail will start laying in 8 short weeks. Could be a solution. Like alcohol.

Customer eggs come first here. Helps pay for the chickens, and gives us an excuse to get more.

 

[Kiki]

@Texas Kiki - know anyone local that would accept a large pot bellied pig? Being rehomed from a petting zoo for being mean to the goats. I've offered help with butchering. <may be too attached>

Oh, those nice hawks are probably waiting for rats and squirrels. I'm afraid I'm dealing with a squirrel in the chicken feed issue. I'm not happy.

Make priorities. Family eggs first. Only excess to be sold. Having said that, I down sized because I was taking free eggs to the family last year. Another regular customer is VERY interested in these eggs and I'll be surprised if these girls keep laying at this rate. 13 girls and getting 10 eggs some days. We shall see where this goes. The extended family is asking for delicious, backyard eggs too. What did I create? A reason to keep more chickens??? Perhaps...

Besides the quail will start laying in 8 short weeks. Could be a solution. Like alcohol.

Do people eat pot belly pets?
I am sure the mini would love to butcher it.

 

[H@tcher]

Do people eat pot belly pets?
I am sure the mini would love to butcher it.

They were actually bred as a meat animal originally.

 

[Molpet]

Do people eat pot belly pets?

that is the fate of most of them when people realize they don't stay small and cute.
they were developed originally for small S. asia homesteads for meat.

guinea pig ,cavy, the cute rodents type sold in pet stores was S. america meat animal

 

[ShrekDawg]

It has been quite frigid down here in TN as well. Wind chills in the single digits. A high of 20. Definitely nothing like Chicago and area north but it was cold nonetheless. My poor chickens and ducks were NOT happy. Thankfully that cold snap only lasted a couple of days and it is supposed to get above freezing today and we're going into another warm up. Unfortunately I've noticed that we're going to be getting more rain, just what we DON'T need. But it's not ice or snow so I will take it.

Oh wow that’s cold for you guys! Cold for anyone really. I think we ultimately got down to like 8 or 6 and -11 windchill. My birds were not happy too but now are outside. 17 right now. Tomorrow is supposed to warm up a little bit and then next week is in the high 40s!

We bought this minnow trap thing at Walmart. You pop it in the water and fist can swim in but they can't swim back out. We used it a few times last summer and got the chickens and ducks some fishies from our creek. Some were decent size too, almost 4in in length. Most were smaller than that. Both my chickens and ducks loved them. It was hilarious to see a chicken running around with this fish in her beak, it flapping with every step she took as she ran away from the others to find a spot where she could enjoy her treat in peace. It was fun to watch the ducks diving and swimming after the fish in their pool. They all went crazy for them.

I didn’t know chickens ate fish!

After like the next day or so I had finished the order for the new chickie-poos, my hubby says to me, "So after ordering all that we did, you didn't get any geese? Why not?"Well... that was more money. They are going to have to be boxed and shipped separately. They are going to have to be brooded separately. They'll be housed separately. Where are we going to put them? I have a place for the new pullets. We'd have to come up with something for the geese. I like the idea of having geese to grow up with the chickens, so they are more likely to bond and/or think of them as part of their flock. We'd buy 1 male and 2 females. But like with ducks, they're waterfowl so they'll have different needs and whatnot. So now I don't know if I should buy them sooner and work everything out later, which can be done. It's just more stressful. Or wait. Honestly I am thinking wait, even though I want them. I'll give it some more time.

Definitely wait!!

And maybe I am too softhearted but I hope the pig finds another home at either another petting zoo or as a pet or maybe someone could try contacted a pot belly pig rescue? I don’t think it’s really fair to make the pig pay the price just because it was a little bit of a bully to some goats. I’m sure it could be used for meat but it was raised as a pet or at least tame animal and I think deserves a chance at finding a good home/rescue. They may have been originally bred as meat but most people now keep them as pets and I am sure there are plenty of people that would be willing to rescue/adopt that pig and give it a good home. It’s not like someone is trying to rehome a 400, 500, 600 pound meat pig that is solely intended to be eaten, then I’d say yeah, don’t be stupid, eat the damn thing (like when I saw a 1 year CX cross for rehoming lol), but most people keep pot bellies as pets and the breed, and pigs in general, are very smart and personable.

 

[ShrekDawg]

that is the fate of most of them when people realize they don't stay small and cute.
they were developed originally for small S. asia homesteads for meat.

guinea pig ,cavy, the cute rodents type sold in pet stores was S. america meat animal

I thought that was tea cup pigs? Surely know one would buy a pot belly thinking it would stay small? I thought they were marketed differently? There are mini pigs, micro pigs, teacups, etc. all of which are basically the same and are often just underaged meat piglets that get to be 600 pounds. But some of them stay fairly small. I think Julianas actually stay small, under 100, some under 50. But anyway, i think the whole mini pig thing is just ridiculously stupid and even cruel since often they tell people to underfed/starve them to get them to stay small, but i thought pot bellies were a totally different thing. Idk.

 

[Kiki]

My kitchen helper is dumb.

 

[Molpet]

a pot belly thinking it would stay small

http://www.vetstreet.com/our-pet-experts/why-i-cringe-when-i-hear-a-client-bought-a-teacup-pig

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

My kitchen helper is dumb.
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He’s beautifully dumb look at those satellite dish ears!