@chickie, mine are mostly friendly once they get used to you, as they are rescues and sometimes take minutes to hours to really warm up and get comfy and chatty, and ones got as babies and still are, but the adults bought just as wanted them and their setup to try to get wild type/morph/color and pattern out of them, are not biters or mean or run, just not to sure seeming except slow, how to act around humans, other budgies in flock situation, and loose and with toys and variation from bare cage and nest box had when got (though had all outstanding vit, min, nutritional stuff, and most natural vibrant colors, and no dyes used in food or anything at all, and really lean muscled and healthier then ever seen in any tame budgie show or otherwise!), nest and cage was filthy and littered every were with three to four dozen eggs, not sure if were fresh, fertile, from that hen and or another and that cock, so tossed them to the lizards after checking to see if any were showing advanced signs of life (my beardies loved them!).
@grawg, i was wondering about smaller ducks and heard about the khaky cambel i think was the ones, that were great egg layers, only out done by the specialized and kept and fed, production hens. was looking into trying some of them, and/or other youd said, but heard they need a lot more room, messier, noisier (as apposed to supposed qwuakless muscovy), and needed more water to throw around than just head dipping and thrashing to clean nostrils.. any merrit to any of this or any first hand duck knowledge? also would be good so can tell person who would be getting them, or more than pair to quartet of females/ducks and one drake. they want a pool or pond, as have turtles walking all over in mud and puddles ditches, as live between ponds i think, and would take any free useful farm animal, and/or maybe trade laying hens for meat rabbits, as have some nice huge color patterned and solid colored ones, as well as my dutch bunnies now. i love baby ducks, and would want to try some sometime eventually just to have them around, even if had to part with most later, and oddly only thing my rescued muscovy duckling (already the size of a mallard or about maybe), dismayed me about, is it never quacked, and later found out it was what was white muscovy, what was called skol, scob, scoby, scooby, husky, hissing duck, or just quackless duck, and even a goose duck (hybrid), locally. the claws and perchng were odd for whaat i know of of ducks other than wood ducks (and know nothing really about them except they need wood nest boxes up high on edge of water, and/in/on tree.. supposedly.
I might have to bribe stang too if Nella wants to let go of that brooder
