Help before he kills me!!!

[Kevin565]

10 total ducklings and 13 chickens.

You only have 10 ducks?

Wait until the addiction is full blown.... that's when you just stop counting for your own sanity

 

[Miss Lydia]

You only have 10 ducks?

Wait until the addiction is full blown.... that's when you just stop counting for your own sanity

I'd say she ain't quite caught on to duck math yet

 

[furbabymum]

You only have 10 ducks?

Wait until the addiction is full blown.... that's when you just stop counting for your own sanity

It's our first year of owning any poultry and my first ever duck purchases. I'm hoping for males so I'll have some very interestin backyard mix ducks. I've got 4 khaki campbells, 2 welsh harlequin and 4 golden 300 on the way.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

I remember having 11 birds.
Although we can do evening round up and lock down in 35 minutes. Then another 10 to distribute food and water and we are done. That includes the goats and rabbits too.

Same here....my total feathered head-count is way over the 25 limit my husband put on me when we got our first chickens. When we got ducks and geese he consented to let me get 2 geese and 6 duck hatching eggs; so that means I am only 130 over my limit.

I always hated math anyway.

Funny thing is he will growl and have a fit one minute and the next is out on the tractor digging them a new pond, or drawing a sketch for another coop. Spouses can be pushovers. Just go on your local Craigslist and see if anyone is selling duck eggs. I only get $3.00 a dozen right now, but others locally get up to $6.00. You can always pitch it to him that they will pay their own way and your eggs are free!!!!!

Our evening round up and lock down is easy except for the turkeys: The little boogers don't like going to bed.

The ducks and geese are all standing at the door to their respective houses waiting to see if we are serious that it is bedtime. When they see I haven't stopped coming toward them they start to file into their houses. If they pause I start clapping my hands and then they go. I have used hand clapping since they were babies in the juvenile pen. They all know what it means.

Except for the occasional guinea fowl that is still out and about, everybody who lives in the chicken coop is already on their roosts way before dusk each day. All I have to do is go close the doors.

The quickest I can feed the goats, horse, and cows and put everybody up for the night is 15 minutes. The longest has taken 45 when I had to get hay, or chase somebody who wasn't cooperating.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

MrsMagoo and I would be deadly if we shared a property line.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

MrsMagoo and I would be deadly if we shared a property line.

Get a backhoe here quick....we are gonna need a few more ponds!!!!!!!

 

[TheJadeChicken]

10 total ducklings and 13 chickens.

Is that all? I think you need more chicks. JUST KIDDING.

I have 5 ducks, 2 Turkeys, 8 Big Chickens, about 21 Bantams, and 5 yellows chicks.

In ducks we have.... 1 Pekin Drake, 2 Cayuga Hens, and a pair of mallards.

 

[zooweemama]

*shrugs* Join the rank of bird flu infected BYC members. I have 14 ducks: 6 different breeds, waiting on my African goose pair mid-June. And I pick up our first set of (6) baby chicks tomorrow. :| It all started with one trip to the feedstore and a couple of ducks.

 

[zooweemama]

And to add....my husband was a hard sell on the chickens. I almost feel guilty I managed to talk him into not minding! I SO feel for you. I want turkeys too!

 

[Kevin565]

It's our first year of owning any poultry and my first ever duck purchases. I'm hoping for males so I'll have some very interestin backyard mix ducks. I've got 4 khaki campbells, 2 welsh harlequin and 4 golden 300 on the way.

Those will be some pretty mixes!