Duck Lovers Unite! - *A Chat Thread*

[Miss Lydia]

We sure will

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Second Pekin laying now- also my first ever shell less egg. I guess my quacks are offical teens?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Strange how they can push them out without them busting. Thank goodness they can though. Congrats on your layers!!

 

[Loopeend]

So happy! This year we had Indian runner eggs send over from Germany; and we kept 1 black drake. He went to his first show (and our first). I was interested in what proffesionals had to say about him. I thought he was fine; legs a tad too light, and bill too green. He actually got a great score! A 96! Bill no problem!
IF... I had managed to wash him properly. We are re-building and do not have an inside closed off coop atm. I had to bring him in wednesday really early; it rained that night he got totally muddy...and on that morning the ride had problems and had to fix an other ride at the last moment :O So a quick wash it was.. lost 2 points by it :'( So it was 94. Which landed him the 2nd place
I was already scared that he would be too muddy; turns out; all other Indian runner ducks owners had the same muddy duck problem haha!

But more important; what the proffessional said about him perfectly matches his black mate from germany with a score of 96 we have from another line (we did not bring her to the show because she lost a nail). Her BEST points are her really black legs.. so good chance they combined give great ducks!

For the rest it was awesome. Met some Dutch, German, Austrian and Italian breeders, and ALL those animals.. doves, rabbits, chickens, alpaca's, hamsters, snakes.. pfff. I have seen atleast 15 breeds I NEEEED in the future Modern English fighting hens, Toulouse geese, forgot-the-name-all-black-chickens (saymin?), hookbilled ducks, German pekin ducks (wow they are so big IRL!) blablabla etc.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Congrats on the win. Can we see some pics of your 2? They sound beautiful.

 

[duluthralphie]

Congrats on the win. Can we see some pics of your 2? They sound beautiful.

Sure!!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Nothing nope no words nada!

 

[Loopeend]

If it is about my 2; yes soon. I'm going to take good pictures of them. Those pictures of them in cages on a show are not really.. appealing..

Next to all the bars in the way; they are NOT happy and you can see it on the picture.

Hence I only enter a duck once; to get breeding-guidance. They are not animals that like being put in a cage like that once a month for 5 days. Some species handle it more then others.

 

[Miss Lydia]

It would be hard for Runners I’d think.

 

[duluthralphie]

It would be hard for Runners to think.

Darn near impossible for any dux!!!