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Well, seven times the weight in three weeks? - If you open the duckling spreadsheet, you can see that even the slowest growing duckling, the yellow-ringed Magpie, has almost tenfolded her weight. The fastest growing has almost twentyfolded her weight.
But these are domesticated ducks, it very likely is different with domesticated or wild Mallard ducks, they will grow slower.
maybe I did not remember the stat right
 
Piggly Wiggly is nice! They have good prices and during the summer months they sell local fruits and vegetables, which i appreciate very much.
With the bread, my colleagues often ask me »What is typically German Food« and all i come back with is the bread. There is really some culture about bread in Germany, we have countless different types of bread and very few people buy it in supermarkets (Aldi!) because the quality there is so poor.
The typical stereotypes of "German" food, the "Bratwurst" with "Sauerkraut" are not typical German. Sausage recipes have been invented all over Europe (Polish Kielbasa and Romanian Carnati, for example) and Sauerkraut is popular almost everywhere. And also beer isn't special for Germany, think about Budweiser from the Czech republic…
But the bread is really unique in Germany! If you ever travel to Germany try a »Brötchen mit Schinken« (Bread-roll with ham)! - Now i'm hungry… :lau
I long for some of the slightly stinky cheese you get to put on the bread. I can't remember the name. Soft, off white and served in a little pot. I always got it while deciding what was for dinner. I have never seen it in the US.
 
I long for some of the slightly stinky cheese you get to put on the bread. I can't remember the name. Soft, off white and served in a little pot. I always got it while deciding what was for dinner. I have never seen it in the US.
Might have been »Limburger Käse« (Limburg Cheese) - i had a colleague in Germany who was always eating a sandwich with that cheese when he was traveling by train. It smelled so bad that he had the compartment for himself most of the time. :gig
It is really bad! But there are cheeses with a way worse stink: »Harzer Käse« and probably the king of the stink: »Weißlacker«. That one smells like a mix of feet not being washed for months and vomit. Have no idea how somebody can even think of eating it!
 
Temperatures here today were not bad for February, 15°C (59F), but it was breezy and the wind felt cold, so the ducklings stayed inside today. But i was outside to do some cleanup work and i dragged the "old" chicken-house out of the storage and tried to fit it on the work platform:

First it needs a new coat of paint and then my idea was to close the the sides of the part under the nesting box with plywood as a shelter and add a home-made run either at the side or the front, so that they have more space. The weekend can come!
 

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