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

[ShrekDawg]

Poor Puckers isn't going to be allowed in to scratch them up.

Poor puckers

He’d probably rather be outside tbh though lol Gator would lay outside for hours if you let him. Libby and Franklin too.

Oh and did you see the second novel I accidentally created last night!? gonna take you months to get through everything at this point I think that one is almost as bad as the first one haha whoops

 

[NanaKat]

Good morning!
Was out picking the Ozark Premier plums at daylight. (Hubby likes to eat his just shy of ripe so I pick some "green" for him) Then sorted out plums already ripe or pecked by the cardinals to the ripe plums I already had in the fridge. That's canned OPP juice under the counter. These plums are table plums.

Cut and cooked. Had some sand plums set aside too so cooked them separately. Look at the lovely colors.
Sand plum on the left, Premier on the right.


And dill seed air drying for storage.


Going out now to weed wack and mow the yard and garden.
Then I need to clean the brooders and move juvies to the grow out pen and move chicks to the brooder room.
Hopefully will get done before the day gets too hot.
Canning the juice this afternoon is a nice inside task.
BBL

 

[Tesumph]

How how's yesterday's final?

Rough, but could’ve been worse. I went with my gut and made it out alive lol. There was just too much material to memorize everything and be 100% prepared.

I just saw my grade, I made an A in the class.

Good morning!
Was out picking the Ozark Premier plums at daylight. (Hubby likes to eat his just shy of ripe so I pick some "green" for him) Then sorted out plums already ripe or pecked by the cardinals to the ripe plums I already had in the fridge. That's canned OPP juice under the counter. These plums are table plums.
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Cut and cooked. Had some sand plums set aside too so cooked them separately. Look at the lovely colors.
Sand plum on the left, Premier on the right.
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And dill seed air drying for storage.
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Going out now to weed wack and mow the yard and garden.
Then I need to clean the brooders and move juvies to the grow out pen and move chicks to the brooder room.
Hopefully will get done before the day gets too hot.
Canning the juice this afternoon is a nice inside task.
BBL

That looks insanely delicious, those colors are so beautiful and vivid.
You look like you’re a proper farmer’s market! Don’t overwork yourself.
Meanwhile, my “harvest”... it’s something!

 

[Tesumph]

Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound like I was rushing you to read it now or anything like that, totally understand and cool with if it takes a week, or even two weeks or a month or however long you need, I just mostly meant like at least look for a sec to see if you thought breaking it up helped at all, not to read the whole thing right now haha

And oh wow really!? That’s crazy!! haha whoops! Sorry!

I feel like I’ve definitely written longer ones though haha maybe not though. I feel like that one a few weeks ago was pretty long lol



Ah okay yeah I guess that makes sense. I guess it is pretty messed up to purposely breed them but then again some people would also say it’s messed up to breed pugs and other brachy breeds with the extremely short noses they do and how they can’t breathe so I don’t know. There’s a lot of messed up things in breeding. But it is pretty stupid to be breeding all these mutts I guess and also how they charge purebred prices or way more. And they have definitely gone crazy with the crosses now. Some breeds should definitely not be bred together, completely opposite traits and whatnot, and people will breed anything with poodle or husky these days which definitely is not good. But some of the more “older” crosses maybe aren’t as bad? Idk. Maybe they still are? Like the ones that have been around a while. But I do know a lot of them seem to have lots of health problems. But then again so do purebred ones from mills. Seems the crosses and teacup breeds have a lot of neurological problems too though. Which is really bad.

And yeah, that’s true, although honestly I’m not sure I’d say they’re all of them are necessarily breeding towards healthier dogs as much as just what wins. For instance, surely breeding for shorter and shorter noses or only a certain color can’t be good for dogs in the long run. But I guess that’s probably a whole separate issue to designer dogs? Idk. But I think that’s maybe part of why I’m more like not as freaked out by it now because there’s plenty of, for example, horribly bred Aussies and all the “toy” and “mini” aussies that look either extremely sickly, crazy, or like mixes, or all three.

And I know it probably sounds like I’m defending them but I’m not cause I would never buy one but I guess I’m just saying there’s a lot of issues with the purebreds too. Idk.

And oh yeah I’ve read that article before or one similar to it. I think someone shared it here before. The guy regrets ever creating the doodle because they breed everything to poodle now and it probably kind of started the whole designer dog thing too. I get where he’s coming from cause I do think it started a lot of trouble and bad trend ha but that said I do think the Australian Labradoodles (not just any old regular Labradoodles, I’ll get to that in a second) are kinda cool and maybe not quite as bad as some of the others. Only because they have an actual registry, maybe two, I forget, and breeders actually working toward a standard and trying to get them recognized, breeders that actually care or whatever. Which is different than most designer breeds ha the Australian Labradoodles have I think Cocker Spaniel in them which is what makes them so sweet. And I think it’s preferred if they trace back to the original dogs that guy created but I don’t think that’s required. But they seem neat. But most are super expensive and/or require early spaying and neutering for some reason, idk why but a lot of the websites mentioned that, which I’m against, so they’re out. Not that I’d get a doodle or designer dog anyway haha although they are VERY common around here, there’s tons for some reason, and I met a Goldendoodle a classmate/friend has once when she brought him to class and he was AWESOME and so sweet. And my old professor of mine recently got an Australian Labradoodle puppy, this past fall/winter, and he seems awesome too, though I haven’t met him yet.



Awwww can’t believe he is one already!! That’s crazy!!!

I think you’re missing my point. I DO think it’s messed up to breed purebred brachycephalic dogs, neurotic dogs, and otherwise mentally or physically disabled dogs. I DON’T think there’s anything wrong with breeding a mixed breed litter, so long as they’re healthy and you have a real purpose for doing so.

My only problem is people breeding dogs to the detriment of the dog’s health and well-being. I think everyone can agree on that, at least. That happens in puppy mills, backyard breeding, purebred showlines, and everything in-between.

My gripe with designer crossbreeds is that you’re going to be hard pressed to find a breeder who cares more about the health and quality of the puppies they’re producing rather than how much money they can make off of a litter. Of course there’s nothing wrong with a quality, upstanding line of goldendoodles bred for professional therapy work... that’s not what the discussion is about.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I think you’re missing my point. I DO think it’s messed up to breed purebred brachycephalic dogs, neurotic dogs, and otherwise mentally or physically disabled dogs. I DON’T think there’s anything wrong with breeding a mixed breed litter, so long as they’re healthy and you have a real purpose for doing so.

My only problem is people breeding dogs to the detriment of the dog’s health and well-being. I think everyone can agree on that, at least. That happens in puppy mills, backyard breeding, purebred showlines, and everything in-between.

My gripe with designer crossbreeds is that you’re going to be hard pressed to find a breeder who cares more about the health and quality of the puppies they’re producing rather than how much money they can make off of a litter. Of course there’s nothing wrong with a quality, upstanding line of goldendoodles bred for professional therapy work... that’s not what the discussion is about.

Yeah, sorry, I think I might have misread it, idk. From this post it sounds like we’re all on the same page and I agree with everything here, I guess it just doesn’t come across on text haha I guess I was thinking that you and honan were against all designer dogs, even supposedly well bred ones, like that there weren’t any well bred ones and all of them were bad/stupid or something. Idk. That’s why I was saying not all of them were bad and there are some well bred ones, like some of the doodles, but of course the pet store, BYB, puppy mill, etc. ones are bad and all the stupid random crosses people do without thinking. Most of them I do think are bad but I think there are some nice doodles or maybe even other crosses (don’t know about those, haven’t looked into it) but I was thinking you guys were saying it was more black and white or something like all designer dogs were bad and all purebred ones are better or something but I should have known that wasn’t the case. But I guess with the other post calling them a joke or whatever that’s why I just like assumed you guys were against all of them or meant all of them were bad or whatever. Idk. Of course the little puff balls of whatever the latest craze is ARE a joke ha but not every single one. Idk. It’s now clear you know that though and we agree but I think I misread or something came across wrong on both ends and I’m sorry. Seems we agree. Ha I don’t really care what the cross is as long as it’s well bred and with good intentions other than making money.

 

[ShrekDawg]

At least purebreds have people who still care about the dogs and are working toward a better and healthier bloodline.

Also I think this sentence kind of threw me off cause it kind of sounded like, to me, all purebreds were good or somehow better and like there were no good breeders in any of the designer breeds. Which is why I brought up the doodles. But I think now I maybe just misinterpreted it. I am sorry.

Cause from this one it’s pretty clear I definitely misinterpreted it hah sorry.

We definitely agree. Just hard to tell on the internet ha

Sorry

I think you’re missing my point. I DO think it’s messed up to breed purebred brachycephalic dogs, neurotic dogs, and otherwise mentally or physically disabled dogs. I DON’T think there’s anything wrong with breeding a mixed breed litter, so long as they’re healthy and you have a real purpose for doing so.

My only problem is people breeding dogs to the detriment of the dog’s health and well-being. I think everyone can agree on that, at least. That happens in puppy mills, backyard breeding, purebred showlines, and everything in-between.

My gripe with designer crossbreeds is that you’re going to be hard pressed to find a breeder who cares more about the health and quality of the puppies they’re producing rather than how much money they can make off of a litter. Of course there’s nothing wrong with a quality, upstanding line of goldendoodles bred for professional therapy work... that’s not what the discussion is about.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Gotta go, supposed to be packing lol

 

[Tesumph]

@NanaKat my daylily bloomed!!! Oh my gosh it’s so beautiful I can’t even

Also Theia stalking a squirrel, nat. geo style. I just need some dramatic David Attenborough voiceover. “Death comes swiftly on fluffy paws.”

 

[ShrekDawg]

@NanaKat my daylily bloomed!!! Oh my gosh it’s so beautiful I can’t even
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Also Theia stalking a squirrel, nat. geo style. I just need some dramatic David Attenborough voiceover. “Death comes swiftly on fluffy paws.”
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LOL OMG!! That picture is great!!

One of the dogs I visit always stalks the chipmunks every time!! Lol first thing she does is run over to where they usually are and then freeze and stalk towards them if there’s one out

 

[ShrekDawg]

@NanaKat my daylily bloomed!!! Oh my gosh it’s so beautiful I can’t even
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Also Theia stalking a squirrel, nat. geo style. I just need some dramatic David Attenborough voiceover. “Death comes swiftly on fluffy paws.”
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Oh and that sure is a beautiful flower