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

[CSAchook]

I’ve ordered from this site before for my chickens, got the chicken mix one, but maybe they have something for IV or Tad?

https://www.rainbowmealworms.net/

I hear good things about that site. Maybe one of these days I will order a bunch of mealies for my little zoo.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I hear good things about that site. Maybe one of these days I will order a bunch of mealies for my little zoo.

You definitely should! They carry dubias and crickets and all kinds of other species and accessories and stuff too!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Just found this seriously freaking huge cucumber LOL don’t know how I didn’t notice it before!

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

How's your face?

Not swollen or red or painful

First and only class of the day done

 

[jwyles]

Yup. Alive and kicking.
It helps because black soldier fly larva is a lot less “shiny” and wet than other maggots, if you know what I mean. They also don’t bite or smell.

Bleh. I hate roaches too. Are they dubias?
We give her dubia roaches when we can, but they’re hard to find and expensive. They’re actually kind of nice though, they’re fat and slow. More like giant roly polys than roaches.

I'm eating lunch as I just read this and was literally biting into corn on the cob when I read "...alot less shiny and wet than other maggots..." I think I'll revisit the corn a bit later.

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

I had bought a bag of feed for my chickens this past Saturday. This particular store is the only one that I know of that sells my Purina Flock Raiser Pellets. We switched to the pellets because it seemed like it was less wasteful than the crumbles, especially for my ducks since the older ones were eating it as well. It's mill date was older than I prefer but my chickens were literally out of food so... I took the chance. I got home and opened it. It wasn't molded but it WAS infested with little crawly black bugs. The feed store closes at noon on Saturdays and isn't open on Sundays so I had to wait until today to take care of it. I ended up going to TSC Saturday and got the chickens some Flock Raiser Crumbles. I really wish the pellets were more widely available. I mean, you can get a variety of LAYER feed in pellet form. I like the Flock Raiser because I have males in the flock and I can just offer oyster shell on the side and not worry about my boys eating too much calcium. Idk. Maybe I overthink about it but it's just the way I am doing things. I think we may switch the ducks completely over to the duck feed though. At least that is what I would like to do. That way the chickens can just have the Flock Raiser and then I can just do the crumbles and not worry about the pellets at all.

This last week we have also been meeting with Recruiters. My son wants to join the military. He already took the practice ASVAB but he will meet up there again Monday to sign a request form to take the official ASVAB and do a Medical check. Then we will go from there after he finds out what he scores on it and what field/jobs are available. He is looking at a particular field so we will see. It is going to be so difficult to let my baby go. I'm being strong now but man, if I think too hard about it... Then we are going to be empty nesters. Sad thing is, all of the animals keep me bound to home so I/we STILL can't go off and enjoy myself/ourselves.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Depends on your teacher.

Fond test memories of looking at a molecule with 20 functional groups and one reactant. What gets reacted and what isn't affected???

The fun one was 3 reactants in succession.

Then there was P-chem... Gibbs Free Energy equation can be derived for everything.

My organic professor (lord help me if he doesn’t come back) likes me and helps me out a lot. He’s also the ochem coordinator so all the lab exams are written by him anyways, keeping my fingers crossed that he comes back.

 

[Tesumph]

Oh boy! Hopefully they’re back soon!



idk why but I found the straightforwardness of this so funny.... straight to the point.

It’s what we all want to know though!

Hope your face is better Prairie!



Oh boy



Ewww sounds nasty lol



I’ve ordered from this site before for my chickens, got the chicken mix one, but maybe they have something for IV or Tad?

https://www.rainbowmealworms.net/

Looks like they have a lot of selection! Fortunately I have local suppliers for most things.

Yes dubias. They are really expensive locally so we order them online from Dubi Deli. They are super hardy and easy to keep alive so we just buy a bunch at a time and then keep them in a little plastic tank with feeder food, hydration crystals, and some upright pieces of egg carton. Tad loves them and they are a way better than crickets. Hated keeping crickets. Less ick factor but loud and messy. And they bite. With roaches it is just the creepy rustling noises they make that grosses me out for some reason. The things we do for our lizards, right?

Where do you get your fly larvae?

https://symtonbsf.com/
It’s by far my favorite feeder. Roaches are too expensive, and crickets smell disgusting and are so loud.
They’re also nutritionally comparable to dubias and have a lot of natural calcium. Win win win.

 

[sdm111]

Oh man. It’s never a good sign when your professor isn’t here on the first day and they send a sub.

last year one of my daughter's classes they had a student teaching the class for a period of time (student was going to be a teacher) anyway my daughter got a question or two wrong on a paper and she was upset cause she just knew she was right. She went to the actual professor of said class and sure enough the student teacher was wrong. She now knows to stand up for herself if she thinks they are wrong. She didn't want to say anything at first

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

last year one of my daughter's classes they had a student teaching the class for a period of time (student was going to be a teacher) anyway my daughter got a question or two wrong on a paper and she was upset cause she just knew she was right. She went to the actual professor of said class and sure enough the student teacher was wrong. She now knows to stand up for herself if she thinks they are wrong. She didn't want to say anything at first

We aren’t even allowed to contact our professor so hopefully that situation doesn’t arise for me.