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

[CrazyCrttr75]

@Texas Kiki

Just what you need!

https://wyoming.craigslist.org/grd/d/fort-collins-rabbits/6920891827.html

Too bad they are in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Awwww!!!

 

[NanaKat]

Just now finishing up canning peaches.
As I was mowing the garden this afternoon I noticed ripe peaches on our Dessert Gold peach. Not normal size, more like golf ball, but ripe. All the rain last month and into June did a number on them.
I picked one, opened it and tasted. Nice and juicy with a nice flavor. Certainly won't make table peaches, but decided to can for pie filling and juice for jelly.
After finishing the mowing, I picked about 4 gallon...1/4 the size the full sized fruit would have been. Washed them, sorted, boiled and chilled to slip skins and got 4 quarts. And have about 1.5 gallon boiled and mashed to strain in the morning for jelly juice.

This follows yesterday picking and canning sand plum juice.
Will do the tame plums tomorrow.

Oh ...for @honanbm ...neighbor brought me some summer garlic he harvested. He laid the whole plant... bulb to seed head because he knows I like to use the "flower" in fall arrangements. For length, the steps are 11 inches wide. And this is 1/2 half of a single clove! True elephant garlic!

You plant this in summer to harvest in the fall or can wait until the next summer to harvest. Harvested in the fall, the bulbs are single round like the one in my hand. Left until the next summer, you get huge multi-clove clusters like these he brought.

 

[Conan]

Just now finishing up canning peaches.
As I was mowing the garden this afternoon I noticed ripe peaches on our Dessert Gold peach. Not normal size, more like golf ball, but ripe. All the rain last month and into June did a number on them.
I picked one, opened it and tasted. Nice and juicy with a nice flavor. Certainly won't make table peaches, but decided to can for pie filling and juice for jelly.
After finishing the mowing, I picked about 4 gallon...1/4 the size the full sized fruit would have been. Washed them, sorted, boiled and chilled to slip skins and got 4 quarts. And have about 1.5 gallon boiled and mashed to strain in the morning for jelly juice.

This follows yesterday picking and canning sand plum juice.
Will do the tame plums tomorrow.

Oh ...for @honanbm ...neighbor brought me some summer garlic he harvested. He laid the whole plant... bulb to seed head because he knows I like to use the "flower" in fall arrangements. For length, the steps are 11 inches wide. And this is 1/2 half of a single clove! True elephant garlic!
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You plant this in summer to harvest in the fall or can wait until the next summer to harvest. Harvested in the fall, the bulbs are single round like the one in my hand. Left until the next summer, you get huge multi-clove clusters like these he brought.

Monster garlic and mini peaches! I haven't tried elephant garlic before. Looks like it's worth it!
I'm about to harvest my fall planted garlic. After I harvest the scapes. Yum.

 

[RUNuts]

@Texas Kiki @WVduckchick @NanaKat

Funny story. Neighbor knocks on door and says come get your duck. I don't have ducks. What are you talking about?
Come see.
So we go over to his backyard and a mallard hen is sitting in a mud puddle. We walk up to her and pick her up. She is fine. Tame. No fighting. Wings good. Waddling around. Playing in the mud puddle.

What am I going to do with a duck? He was about to let the dog out. Dogs play too rough. Biosecurity. No lice. What else am I looking for? Quack quack quack?

Fast questions as I research.
Chicken feed ok? She is eating grass.
Put her in a dog kennel with a puddle of water. What else is needed?

 

[RUNuts]

 

[Kiki]

@Texas Kiki @WVduckchick @NanaKat

Funny story. Neighbor knocks on door and says come get your duck. I don't have ducks. What are you talking about?
Come see.
So we go over to his backyard and a mallard hen is sitting in a mud puddle. We walk up to her and pick her up. She is fine. Tame. No fighting. Wings good. Waddling around. Playing in the mud puddle.

What am I going to do with a duck? He was about to let the dog out. Dogs play too rough. Biosecurity. No lice. What else am I looking for? Quack quack quack?

Fast questions as I research.
Chicken feed ok? She is eating grass.
Put her in a dog kennel with a puddle of water. What else is needed?

ASK FOR A REFUND!
Hurry.

 

[R2elk]

I forgot to move the guinea eggs to the hatcher last night. By the time I got around to moving them this morning, one was already pipped. When I checked later this morning, there was one that had already hatched. It isn't the one that was pipped so it did not waste any time between pipping and zipping.

 

[Kiki]

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@BantyChooks Look!

 

[RUNuts]

And a little more info. faceplant group for neighborhood has someone asking for owners and took 2 ducks to the community pond. Said they followed them home. Down to one duck. I'm guessing dog, cat, gator or kids got other one. Would have been nice to keep the pair together.

Add to chicken arena? How to integrate? She is happily quacking at the back door. Such is the fickle whims of fate. I foresee a wing clipping coming soon.

 

[RUNuts]

@BantyChooks Look!

Good idea!!

Batty, come get this duck! You'll love each other.

Who dumps 2 tame hens in a hostile environment?