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

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Tomato tomahto lol I know it is but I have heard people call it cocci for short??
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Yeah, I'm guilty of it, too. I know better and still do it sometimes. But, I adamantly refuse to call any chicken a "roo" so I have some standards of clarity.

 

[NanaKat]

@KDOGG331 you can move them outside with the mhp to keep the comfortable...especially at night. As they acclimate and grow more feathers, they will stay out from under "her" to explore their surrounding in their coop pen. You will see them on top more too.

My chicks in the brooder room have a 11 X 12 foot area to run and play in with older chicks and have the broody hens and a big rooster that is great with chicks. They are learning social skills. But they run either to a hen for warmth and protection or to their red heat lamp that is hanging 14 inches off the floor. This week, I will raise the height to 18", then 24".
Another group of chicks will move to the brooder room this week since another big hatch is in the works now.
I'll move the oldest chicks to the hen house when I move the littles out to the brooder room.
Considering making a mhp for the littles to compare how both groups are handling the temperatures.
I also have a 30 x 40 standing brooder I can use...

As an update: I caught Maggie off her nest this morning bathing and eating so I scurried to her nest flashlight in hand to candle her eggs.
There are 10 eggs!
I estimate from the air cells that we may have 6 to 8 days before hatch....so on @Miss Lydia 's advice, I'm going to collect the nest material, eggs and Maggie in a pet carrier as soon as hatch begins.
I have put together a quiet secure corner pen in the barn for hatching.
Then I have room for a small pen next to the duck coop for Maggie and her babies where Maggie and her babies can see and transition into the duck flock.

Baby ducklings are soooo cute!
The six that hatched before Easter are feathering out nicely and are in a separate pen coop in the garden.
The five that hatched after Easter are still in a brooder in the hot tub room. One of them is really tiny. I may test the mother's instinct and see if Maggie will adopt it....

 

[Kiki]

Hmmm... that’s true. I think I might put them in the coop this weekend. But this April has just been so COLD so far. I’m worried for them lol they are so tiny! But I know the longer I wait the harder it’s gonna be cause they’ll be so used to the warmth lol

And yes the instincts are amazing! They all went to bed on their own that first night and every night since as soon as it starts getting dark! And they had no problem finding the food, water, and heat. I showed them anyway but still.

Yeah I think they might do better outside. Last time one got pasty.

I think I need to stop being so overprotective lol but they are so LITTLE lol



OMG that sounds hilarious!! And that’s part of why I want to move them outside, I read until they’re like 4 weeks old they still have the run and hide instincts so I want to have them outside getting used to the sounds and threats before then.



That is a good point!! I just worry because they are still so small!! But I think I will have to move them outside!! Or at least give them some dirt inside lol



That’s true!! I guess broody babies are outside immediately.

Tomato tomahto lol I know it is but I have heard people call it cocci for short??



A Speckled Sussex!



Thanks! This is helpful!







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I thought yellow chicks were your favorite?





I’m pretty sure she was too silly!

Don't call it that for short anymore, it's wrong.

 

[ShrekDawg]

So am I...

I knew it lol

Yeah, I'm guilty of it, too. I know better and still do it sometimes. But, I adamantly refuse to call any chicken a "roo" so I have some standards of clarity.

Yeah, it’s just easier. And lol why not?

@KDOGG331 you can move them outside with the mhp to keep the comfortable...especially at night. As they acclimate and grow more feathers, they will stay out from under "her" to explore their surrounding in their coop pen. You will see them on top more too.

My chicks in the brooder room have a 11 X 12 foot area to run and play in with older chicks and have the broody hens and a big rooster that is great with chicks. They are learning social skills. But they run either to a hen for warmth and protection or to their red heat lamp that is hanging 14 inches off the floor. This week, I will raise the height to 18", then 24".
Another group of chicks will move to the brooder room this week since another big hatch is in the works now.
I'll move the oldest chicks to the hen house when I move the littles out to the brooder room.
Considering making a mhp for the littles to compare how both groups are handling the temperatures.
I also have a 30 x 40 standing brooder I can use...

As an update: I caught Maggie off her nest this morning bathing and eating so I scurried to her nest flashlight in hand to candle her eggs.
There are 10 eggs!
I estimate from the air cells that we may have 6 to 8 days before hatch....so on @Miss Lydia 's advice, I'm going to collect the nest material, eggs and Maggie in a pet carrier as soon as hatch begins.
I have put together a quiet secure corner pen in the barn for hatching.
Then I have room for a small pen next to the duck coop for Maggie and her babies where Maggie and her babies can see and transition into the duck flock.

Baby ducklings are soooo cute!
The six that hatched before Easter are feathering out nicely and are in a separate pen coop in the garden.
The five that hatched after Easter are still in a brooder in the hot tub room. One of them is really tiny. I may test the mother's instinct and see if Maggie will adopt it....

Yeah I know they have the MHP but I’m still nervous to do it lol but it is supposed to be warmer this weekend and next week so I think I will move them this weekend.

They have not started climbing on top yet but I guess that’s normal. They are still pretty tiny.

Don't call it that for short anymore, it's wrong.

Okay. But it is just way easier that typing such a long word as coccidiosis. And especially getting the spelling right ha I didn’t think it was that big of a deal but I also didn’t know it was a completely different thing. I figured it was just an abbreviation for coccidiosis since that’s how everybody used it. But I guess not. Now that I know I probably won’t use it like that anymore but I don’t think most people know and I think most people do use it like that.

 

[Kiki]

I knew it lol



Yeah, it’s just easier. And lol why not?



Yeah I know they have the MHP but I’m still nervous to do it lol but it is supposed to be warmer this weekend and next week so I think I will move them this weekend.

They have not started climbing on top yet but I guess that’s normal. They are still pretty tiny.



Okay. But it is just way easier that typing such a long word as coccidiosis. And especially getting the spelling right ha I didn’t think it was that big of a deal but I also didn’t know it was a completely different thing. I figured it was just an abbreviation for coccidiosis since that’s how everybody used it. But I guess not. Now that I know I probably won’t use it like that anymore but I don’t think most people know and I think most people do use it like that.

Then it is now your duty to correct them if you see it now that you do know.
How will they know if no one ever tells them?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Then it is now your duty to correct them if you see it now that you do know.
How will they know if no one ever tells them?

I guess so but I don’t really want to take that responsibility lol but that is true!!

 

[Kiki]

I guess so but I don’t really want to take that responsibility lol but that is true!!

Too bad you don't have choice.
You must correct people if you know they are wrong.
It's just the right thing to do.

 

[debid]

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Yeah, it’s just easier. And lol why not?
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I'm blaming autocorrect from now on. That is it at least part of the time, anyway.

And why not a "roo"? Because roo already refers to a kangaroo. I know people are uncomfortable with the term cock so cockerel or rooster it is. But roo? No.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Too bad you don't have choice.
You must correct people if you know they are wrong.
It's just the right thing to do.

Not necessarily. I could just not respond lol no one would know the difference. But that said, I really don’t see it all that often anyway. Only a couple times in a thread or article or something. So it’s not like I see it all the time or anything. Although I guess that makes it even less of a big deal to correct it. It takes like 2 seconds I guess. If I see it I guess I will but I don’t really see it very much anyway. And I am sure there are plenty of other people who will! Like you guys! jk. If I see it I guess I will. But I also don’t really see why it is such a big deal. It’s technically another thing sure but they’re all kind of related and most people know what you mean when you say it. Not like calling a cat a dog or something.

I'm blaming autocorrect from now on. That is it at least part of the time, anyway.

And why not a "roo"? Because roo already refers to a kangaroo. I know people are uncomfortable with the term cock so cockerel or rooster it is. But roo? No.

lol good idea! Autocorrect really annoys me. It is constantly trying to correct words that are right!!! It just thinks I mean something different and I am like NO! I DON’T! And have to go back and change it to what I originally had. The whole farting instead of darting incident was a prime example! Why would I want FARTING!?!?! But it changed it to that and made me sound like an idiot lol I can understand if a word is spelled wrong then sure correct it but when it changes what I typed because it thinks I want something else!? If I wanted that I would have just typed that!! VERY annoying lol

But sorry for the rant

And lol that’s true I guess but I never call kangaroos Roos lol

 

[Molpet]

ha roo is better than the text slang:
"r u 4 it" instead of "are you for it" I see ads and have no idea what they are saying
and we all use initials .. no one writes out black jersey giant