Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

[bamadude]

Diva: u took a 3 day nap....medical definition=mini coma

 

[drumstick diva]

is it still a coma if you get up to use the potty and take your pills and then zone out again!! I call it a near narcoleptic event.

 

[bamadude]

Depends on the location of "where u pottied" and where u took your pills too

 

[drumstick diva]

 

[CanuckBock]

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Oatmeal cookies today...triple batch!

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Second day of Christmas...gives us two turtle doves.

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Cookies baked!

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Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[bamadude]

Im glad u enjoyed the film.

 

[CanuckBock]

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Third day of Christmas...

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Hee hee hee...nyuck nyuck! Me Chanteclers are pretty FRENCH hens...LOL



Really been a wonderful winter thus far. Got enough snow to make things pretty white...but not so much we "drown" in it.

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Only had three bouts or so of colder weather which is nice for the creatures...

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On the weekend Rick found the time to use the snow bucket to scritchy scratch up the entrances.

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Love that man...my Hero makes coming and going here just so less exciting...and that's a good thing.

Warm enough and above freezing...the slip sliding is not a fun thing at all! Slow and steady, sure footed and stable Mable...

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One of my oldesters caught my fancy so and I grabbed her up on Dec 5th, and plopped her on the rail in the bird yard. Made her walk the rail in the snow...hee hee...

December 5, 2014​

Don't like her expression of the Partridge variety; ground colour is too light for my fancy, feather texture is too soft and she lacks some finer points in expression of the black markings one expects to see in this variety BUT to her favour is her breed shape, longevity, disease resistance, production (extra large and jumbo decent quality eggs), fertility, and I love her temperament. She is a nice hen indeed and why I bred from her.

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Here is one of her daughters...a nice improvement on her...just a young pullet but you can already see she is gonna be a big clucker too...jest like her Momma! Improvements are a darker ground colour, she has a harder feather with more extension of black pigments in areas where one wants to see that in the Partridge variety, and a lovely temperament. Ma and her get along nicely. Youngster is not egg laying yet, so some production aspects remain unchecked but so far, so good on her.


Went for my ultra sound on Friday. Just got a phone call regarding the results...guess I am "normal!" Hmm...this should be GOOD news but then again, I was hoping they would find something to explain my continuing to feel off with the basically the same symptoms... The Ultra Sound tech asked me if I was also scheduled for a CT scan which made me raise my eyebrows... "Really, I need to go that route?" Ack...not really interested in that...long wait, suppose to be expensive and such and I don't quite figure one needs to tax the health care system. Got another doc appointment for two weeks from now to see where to go from here. Booking staffer told me to keep an eye on myself and if I got worse, not to wait on it...come in earlier. Well at least I can change the badge I wear to "normal" for a while....har har har...normal, me...sure...yeh...normal on what scale of measure?

Went to the kid's on Sunday and had nice crackers & cheese...bugged his pets...

This is Cookie​

Lots of pleasant days to take photos of the sheep and other scenes ...

December 6th...

This is Mia, had her since she was a youngster...not so young now! LOL
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More of the Jacobs​

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Even in the colder weather...about the only area the sheep feel the cold is on their toes...but those can be tuckied up if needed; whilst one chews their cuds.

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Some of my lambs that ain't quite the lambs no more's...Nascor and Nix​

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Yeh, pleasant enough winter weather indeed. Could do with more winters like this one thus far.

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Nice to play dogs, Oh yeh...I came out here originally to PLAY DOGS...

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Patiently Waiting:
Them dougals are ever SO good about being patient with me...

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Amusing themselves just fine...Fixins has face planted herself, covered in snow!

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Smelling the air...​

"OK Dogs...put BTU away so we can play doggin' dog dogs..."

Run Fuzz Ball...RUN!

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So Rick has been planning a trip to Bass Pro (nfi)--we were both off so we took the opportunity to go on Saturday.

It was a Chinook like day...droopy wettish purple clouds hanging there...

Got a shot of a train on the way...love that!​

And back...same sorta weather...

Rocky Mountain range sure looks BIG!​

Not that we really have much to do there...return six pairs of their lifetime socks and purchase six more too. Good socks! I wear mine summer and winter...spring and fall...cushy toes!

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I love the setup of the store...lots of taxidermy.

Some of it is good like these ring necks...some not so much...
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The fact that they have a whole bale of hay up in the roof....jest makes me grin! ​

Bought some salt water taffy for Christmas goodies...found another nice sled, deep black one, to haul with. A nice present (fishing related) for my SIL with whom we do exchange silly Christmas gifts with. Her home decor is set up like a hunting & fishing lodge...really nice.

So past that...yeh, nothing much more tweaked our fancies. I find it highly amusing that Rick and I can enter a store of this magnitude and find very little to purchase. We are looking for a nice meat slicer...but the one we mighta been interested in at the store was completely outta stock. Guess we got another thing still sitting on our wanna list.

I adore the whole herd of Caribou...​

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To me there would not be enough room to even display ONE Caribou in most people's homes...​

Never mind a HERD of Santa's Reindeers! ​

So getting a chance to marvel at a whole herd plus the wiley wolves...never get tired of that.

I still figure the lead Caribou shoulda had a blinky, twinkly RED NOSE!

Can't quite figure out these prints...I am betting they are suppose to be wolfy but yeh...the foot pad is wrong...
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Love the bird bird prints...imagine that! Me liking BIRD prints?​

We wanted to get Fixins a nice no skid mat for her food bowl, but found the ones there were only good on the one side for staying put...she chases her bowl about and I think it frustrates her...so have to find a good fix for that good ol' Gal.

She does have a little cache of Christmas goodies on the go...but the new mat when we find it will not be a wait on it present...she'll be receiving it instantly--jest like her cloud bed was received! NOW!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[CanuckBock]

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Day four...the bus kids are really getting into this. The one young girl near busts a lung every morning now... she points at the picture for the day and exclaims, "There's a NEW one!" LOL Yes, yes, Santa's elves come on my bus every evening and switch the pics out for me... I am also tormenting the kids...every time we see deer, we do a rapid count of the number. These are indeed Santa's reindeer incognito right now...got the antlers stashed away, awaiting the very big DAY! Eating, running about, practising their LEAPS so they can draw that special sled to its destinations, eh. The best was the one year where a large herd of Elk had to walk in front of the bus...now that got them kiddies going. For sure I told them to spy out which one of the elk had the coveted red nose!

Very rewarding and CUTE! Did I say cute?

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Some editions of the song say "Calling" birds, but basically, "Mocking" Birds works too.

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Every year I make up a batch of BQ sauce...well five times the single recipe batch and it gets Rick and I thru the whole summer. I am down to one small bottle now...so time to whip up a new batch. Why not! Winter Solstice is soon enough...December 21st give or take a day pending your location. Survived September, October, November and working now on December...four months of winter more or less under our belts. Time to start thinking about the GREEN...but not wanting the WHITE to go, just time to start making plans for the veg garden. Maybe begin to do an order up for some new seeds pretty soon...yeh...fun in all sorts of the venues...from starting to focus on it and making the PLANS. Indeed not wanting winter over that's for sure...kinda getting settled into the routine now. Like that very much.

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Wintery comfort foods...like tonight's dinner is in the crock pot (using up the very last portion of BQ sauce...no worries, more bubbling on the range!). Pork ribs, on low with BQ sauce...gonna end up tender and saturated with deliciousness. Dinner will be a rather fine affair tonight! Me slaving over a HOT stove for hours upon hours...NOT!

Took a buncha photos yesterday, but saved the more hilarious ones for today. Give us a good ol' giggle fest!

So set the scene...I grabbed Goliath Gert, her daughter and another young growing up female (working on making harder feathers in the Buff Chant Standard sized chickens...big complaint is that this variety is too soft feathered...more like an Orpington!).

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This additional girl is Supreme Head Honcho chicken in her pen and it very much looks like she has NO FEAR about keeping her top dog status!

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Sorry, I cannot help but laugh...Gert's daughter is too scared to look at her mother fighting ("Mom...really? My mother kicks butts--eek--I cannot watch. So mortified!")...or maybe she don't want to see her girlfriend get her butt whooped...either way, the ruffled up hackles are very, very intimidating...hee hee...or am I reading this all wrong...not intimidating but hilarious!??

I moved the chickens around to try to keep the rumblings down to a whisper while I got some more photos, but to no avail...they were going to have a piece of each other...

"And I shriek BOO to you!"
"Oh you do, do you...? We'll see about this!!"
"I'm so ashamed...my Mom's a bruiser AND a fighter..."​

I, of course, never let it go further than this intimidation bluffing phase! No need to beat the tar outta this young pullet; hafta doctor anyone on up. This young chook, she can keep her attitude and one rather feisty girl she certainly IS!

Gert is easily TWICE her size and yet, no backing this whippersnapper down from her vigilance that she is gonna up her pecking order status--start bossing around the

...no moss gathering under those chook toes. Once again, Gert's daughter is sitting there, trying to mildly ignore the bad behaviours escalating around her! She even sorta looks disappointed in the other two acting badly!

I don't mind a bit of ruffle fluffle with the birds. Aggression towards other birds but not humans is certainly expected in many groups. There has to be an ongoing hierarchy in place for peaceful co-existence. What I don't want is when say Gert was the one to instigate the fight--she is pretty comfy in her spot in the flock and is only reacting to an obvious attack directed AT her personally. When the lil' brazing bag is the feist myster...it only says to me that this female is going to be one to watch as she might turn out to be something rather special...a fighter that wants to get the choice roost spot, the best and first go at the food, water, resources. so long as she never takes it beyond reason and becomes say a bully that dishes out crap all the time and picks on everyone all the time. I want some kafuffle but over quickly so the tranquil peacefulness can reign supreme. She is not doing this with her regular pen mates...so I don't expect her to go over board.

Yeh, have to keep an eye on this one for sure, if only to make sure she don't get herself into a spot she can't work out of like in this situation! BRAT--Gert could just crush her by sitting on her little body!

In 1925 at the International Poultry Congress in Spain, the Italian Poultry Association's President upon seeing the Chantecler chicken, was quoted as calling them, "Fighting Leghorns." The President was so enraptured by the Chantecler, he wrote to Bro W and had the breed included in the Italian Poultry Standards.

September 4th, 2014​

So today, gonna see about taking some pics of the two Chocolate Calls I kept back for this year. Recall this one shown above...well these ones are super tiny for even just over three months old. Probably take something to use as a frame of reference in the pictures...like a pound of butter, a golf ball. Done this in the past to show how tiny some of these bantam ducks remain.

Gives one an idea jest how widdle these FTD's really are...​

What is amazing about this Call duck hen above...she is an F1 cross on two completely unrelated Chocolate lines of Calls. One usually expects to see grossly large birds (not desired IN a bantam poultry breed!) and overly fat specimens (not all things said to be positives to hybrid vigour are in force...big and overly fat are not wanted in BANTAMS!). What I have been finding is I am consistently getting teeny, tiny ducks from my chocolate line crosses and my grey crossed to white lines. Not sure but suspect that what I have been fortunate to uncover is some different bantamizing genetics...that line up from each line and I end up seeing birds bred that are smaller than either parent. Really quite intriguing. The first time I did these breedings...I was totally expecting HUGE FAT Calls that I would have to work at getting thinner and smaller by potentially doing inbreeding with. What a lovely stroke of luck indeed to have the F1 generation so breed typey right away!

It was above freezing all last night. Really a nice break for the beasts and birds outside. Lots of yipping, primping, bursts of zipping around, sunning and just lulling about. An early Christmas present for them critters. The back roads are a bit dicey for the warmness; snow and ice covered and pretty slick! But if you take it easy, arrive early and such, no real bads.

Last night it was so gorgeous out that I did the big clear out of the growing out pens and filled one bin for carting out to be composted. So much easier to do with the outside weather so mild...puts a bounce in your steps fer sure! Got to move birds into the next area for growing out; moving them on up. Really enjoying watching them mature out. Some nice looking birds and certainly very entertaining observing them. Makes me wonder how often I zoned out yesterday just going "duh" and oogling them lil' boogers--thought I was getting lots done quickly but maybe the zone out moments were old geezer rest pauses! LMBO Oh well, we gotta grab the moments we love and enjoy the time. Even if we ARE pitching poop and moving soiled bedding...hee hee... Am positive I must smelt REAL good...I went and had a quick clean up before I made up dinner...that's for sure...YUCK! Not sure what bird I resembled more...turkey, duck, chicken...oh blah! Lotsa scratch and sniff patches...blick blick...yick!

I laughed more than usual with the bus kids last week. One of the youngest ones is on every second day (kindergarten) but meets his siblings every afternoon when he is not on the bus; they like school, they like the bus rides. This day he was ready for his two sisters to arrive home. He was packing the biggest snow chunk his little mitted hands could manage. I began laughing even before his sisters had gotten off the bus. They exited and began whining loudly..."NO! Don't you dare! MOM!!!!," and the twist on this was ever so cute. He turned as if to throw it at one of his siblings and quickly spun round & hit his Mom with it. All I saw of her was this big burst of white haze...

Laugh...yeh, snowball fights! Enjoying everything about the Canuck lifestyle seasons, eh!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[drumstick diva]

Tara . I hope there is NO chance of the chocolate call ducks getting smaller and smaller each generation till they disappear. I'll start my worrying early(now) so I can get enough of it in.

I used to raise show cockers and in almost every litter I had one very small pup - not a runt, perfectly healthy and generally pick of the litter in terms of SOP but, too small to show. My first one ended up being 12" tall and 12 lbs. in weight. Correct female height would be 14" and a bit more than double her weight. Mom lived to be 14 years old, daughter nearly 14.5

Really wanted to start a breeding program to keep them mini - for myself. The show people would have boiled me in oil if I went commercial with them. But, just could not find any similar line to breed with. With very small dogs you want the female to have the size and the male be the tiny one because you will end up with some minis and some that could be too large for the mother otherwise. I did not want to inbreed.

I am very short (a bit under 5 feet tall) - let's forget about weight here - so smaller than average animals quickly become my favorites. Your ducks are adorable but, seeing them with marbles for scale put the fear in me about just disappearing .....

Do hope Fixins gets a good 'slip not ' mat for her food dish before Xmas. My best to you and rRck and all the Pear-a-Dicers.

 

[CanuckBock]

Tara . I hope there is NO chance of the chocolate call ducks getting smaller and smaller each generation till they disappear. I'll start my worrying early(now) so I can get enough of it in.

I used to raise show cockers and in almost every litter I had one very small pup - not a runt, perfectly healthy and generally pick of the litter in terms of SOP but, too small to show. My first one ended up being 12" tall and 12 lbs. in weight. Correct female height would be 14" and a bit more than double her weight. Mom lived to be 14 years old, daughter nearly 14.5

Really wanted to start a breeding program to keep them mini - for myself. The show people would have boiled me in oil if I went commercial with them. But, just could not find any similar line to breed with. With very small dogs you want the female to have the size and the male be the tiny one because you will end up with some minis and some that could be too large for the mother otherwise. I did not want to inbreed.

I am very short (a bit under 5 feet tall) - let's forget about weight here - so smaller than average animals quickly become my favorites. Your ducks are adorable but, seeing them with marbles for scale put the fear in me about just disappearing .....

Do hope Fixins gets a good 'slip not ' mat for her food dish before Xmas. My best to you and rRck and all the Pear-a-Dicers.

No worries Woman!

That one photo is of a DAY OLD duckling next to the marbles...yikes...using marbles as a size on scale on a three month old Call would be something, hee hee...golf balls are used now for the older ones...that and one pounder lumps of buttery butter.

What was and is happening is because the choco Call (self coloured) has been recognized, one sees interest in the variety increasing. Back in 2006 at our first poultry show we entered (I entered because I had been breeding Call Ducks & Indies for five years and wanted to have side by each birds in cages beside others to SEE how we were doing--left all the best ones at home...safe from harm or exposure too!). Think I entered 30 bantam ducks or so. I showed a pair of self-chocolates...not recognized in 2006 and people were curious why I always show non-recognized...back then it was to promote the EXISTENCE of these colour varieties (can't have people like/dislike what they don't know exists!). As it was...I was the first here to show the self-chocolates in Canada when they WERE recognized. Kinda neato! I put up a notation that this variety was newly recognized. Shows are great venues to educate us all.

I showed Sprinkles (below) not because I even began to think she was proper in breed shape...nada on that! I showed her and after judging asked the US judge what he thought of her for variety (colour!). I admit he looked a bit confused but said her colour was fine. I know why he was puzzled because some people don't look past breed to see variety and often vice versa...I wanted a nod that the colour was there so I could go about transferring the colour to the proper breed shape and size we had. We had a Blue Fawn hen (also unrecognized at that time) take Reserve in Breed to a White Drake owned by a sanctioned judge...so we already had the nod we had birds good enough to represent the BREED regarding shape and size...attributes and such.

Sprinkles - 2006 unrecognized colour variety (chocolate) back then​

There is interest but not necessarily correct interest in the Chocolate Calls! The market gets flooded with rather coarse and BIG ducks that are suppose to represent SOP bred Calls. If you want a bazillion birds replicated...it is often true the more closer the birds are to mimic wild type, because Mother Nature knows what thrives the best...you will often be swamped with an overabundance of Mallard like Call ducks. In ducks, you may show Calls, show Indies, show Mallards...they each have a shape unto themselves.

Another aspect too, in this colour in particular, is WRONG colour. Some cross their chocolate Calls on Indies and then there is the white feather issue (both juvenile and old age white feathering). I picked up a pair some years back that were given up on by the breeder...a judge. His birds were inundated with white feather. Working on those I have made them proper chocolate colour without the white feathers, white lacings, etc. The birds had moderately good type but the white feather was a hurdle that had not been overcome. It took awhile to correct. I have a bunch I do not breed from period (retired and enjoying old age) from another strain that was really white feathered. If you did not know better, you would swear these ducks are whites for how much is in these chocolates.

There is a bibbed version, a self coloured version...I have magpies and working at anconas in Chocolate. To get the correct colour expression, usually one goes and produces bigger than wanted ducks...for bantams...then you do some inbreeding and select smaller typier specimens. It is all a game to see if you can produce show specimens. Not all show specimens are breeders either. You want to play the SOP game...small and typey has it conundrums too. Depends on if you want to show, exhibit to win. I don't show no more for biosecure reasons...so I don't have to worry about producing the fist size ones--I don't freak my beak that I would not have something worthy to show...but when I do, I also don't sell those ones to the uneducated persons who think show = breeders. Fine line here. A big problem for persons not educated in this.

At one show a fella brought in a duck he had in the car outside...made me laugh, not sure show rules allow that...but in the duck came--not by me, he just showed up with it. It was HUGE...a drake and he wanted me to sell him a small Chocolate Call duck hen for him to breed with his. I refused to oblige his request that day and he was not willing to have me put him down for a pair when we had more the next season (we sell out rather quickly). I sure could have played evil with him...set him up to fail. Ginormous drake would never have been physically able to breed with any of my Chocolate Call females. I suppose AI was an option but really...half the side of the pen was already pretty wrong. Could have commanded huge $ for a hen knowing full well the fella as doomed to have her produce eggs but not fertilized by that drake without intervention.

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This BIG BOY, he is one of my first Chocolate (bibbed) drakes...Henry. He is HUGE, COARSE...he is not showable compared to what I can produce nowadays. We all start some place, eh?

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You can see I have produced smaller ducks, typier Calls...colour was not that consistent either but Rome was not Built in one Day!

Examples of the F1's in Pied, White, two Chocos (self & bibbed) from the first cross of unrelated lines​

We want some small specimens (always nice to have a tear shaped Call, looking down on them) BUT us breeders of Calls that consistently replicate them year after year (not just those that buy to show--know a few of those persons...never bred the birds but show the same stock year after year till it passes!!), we keep back the bigger birds, especially a good mix is a bit larger hen with a bit smaller drake (keep in mind, a drake can be TOO small to physically breed a much larger hen...LOL).

Want to stir things up...talk about how Runner Ducks and Dutch Hookbills are screwed when they try to pip outta their eggs...long neck, bad formed bills to do the job. Lookit Calls with wide short bills on a short neck...again..."pipin' ain't made easy!" LOL It is a miracle we have these duck breeds...all derived from Nature's best form for a duck...the Mallard. We humans make breeds of pigeons that cannot be fed by their parents...cattle that cannot forage properly (not hefted, no instincts passed on by the parent stocks), beasts we eat that have no brains, no horns or harmful items to fight back (we tend to prefer meat that don't have any means to attack us when processing time comes round!), poultry that can't free range, is not disease resistant, breeding beasts that still feel pain but don't AVOID pain so we can abuse it but not have production aspects diminished...on and on we go. Because we humans decide that such and such is desired in an animal or bird. Decide but maybe not for the correct beneficial reasons FOR the said animals and birds being created.

I don't mind playing the game of diminutive size and shaping ducks to have more and more SOP breed type. When they don't replicate any more, I guess then I know we have gone too far, eh? Pretty much fixes itself I figure...fixes itself or we go to plan b...heh heh heh....

Because we retire our breeders to a life of luxury early...I can easily go back a few years prior if for some reason...the more recent generations suddenly went sterile! So a plan B even if I did get caught up in the too small, too typey to make more from. Evil master Plan "B."

We even have our very first duckling we produced here--alive and well. Seashell is a very pretty LARGE hen...her ovaries have quit but she still carries on in her "man" outfit!

In the foreground...some of the more WHITE retired chocolate Calls...yeh...quite the white feather issue there! ​

In Nature, if you left a bevy of Calls to its own devices...I am betting within TWO generations...the entire flock of progeny would be ALL Mallard sized. The bigger boys fight to breed the hens, the smaller drakes get no action (can't beat up the bigger boys!). The bigger females are more productive and produce MORE fertile eggs.

I never made up this SOP game...I don't have to play either but when a small typey Call is produced here...I am not sorry I have done that; bred to the SOP descriptions. Not every thing that lives must replicate to complete itself and if we look at how we see so many whisk away the eggs to be artificially hatched and raised...do the parent ducks even KNOW they have progeny in existence...har har har! Too small, too typey...it ends with that duck. Full stop, no more going down that pathway. Does that make me bad or make me compliant to the SOP? Not sure I have the energies to debate that aspect and sound too credible today. LOL Still tired from clearing out grow out pens...LMBO

The very first concern that Rick voiced with the Calls is as you have..."how will we know when we are getting them too small?" He went on to answer his own ponderings...."When you make them TOO small...tis simple...there will be NO more!" LOL

We do not want coarse (looks like Mallards!) and large birds and label them Call Ducks. We want a good balance on this. When I first started in the Calls, Mallard like ones were a dime a dozen. I invested in ones that were typier and smaller, importing some of the original stocks from master breeder lines specifically asking for BREEDER Calls...not SHOW ones. I kept at it to replicate them and the show ones. It is all about the sinister "chicken" math dilemma...must have show birds, must have birds to make these show birds; FTD!

I found it amazing when we let people visit here...how they would run to see the new birds; the rare and intelligent ones...the people of my own mindset...they stopped and discussed the breeders first and foremost. We sure went on to see the new ones...but we also spent the majority of our visit examining and discussing what MADE THOSE BABIES! Keen to know what breeders were and show birds were and how to utilize all of this. LOL

I expect the two Chocolates I kept back from this season will not replicate. Which is just fine as they are basically pets (bloomin' spoilt PETS!) and will never be able to reside outside during winter here anyway--told Rick that last night...two more wimpy ones! Noisy yippy lil' mongers they be; can you tell I love that! Don't want an entire bevy of just those but not to have some of them means I have lost the genetics to make the winning show birds too! There is a way that Nature eliminates the abominations eh DD? She simply looks & notes it...TOO SMALL....NO MORE!

There was some rumblings on dogs...mini Cattle Dogs for was it, Fly Ball...I forget, been several decades at least. Yes, mini versions of dogs...not necessarily a NON-opinionated topic, eh? The smallest dog sets the height of the jumps, right? A miniature Cattle Dog would be a nightmare for other Fly Ball teams...mini driven monster...fast, tenacious, able to keep the jumps to a minimum for the rest of the team...yeh...scary!


We are working on a decent mat for the Fix...it is just that the old one in the kitchen was removed (tired and worn out) and I forgot how much good that mat did...have her working too hard for her din dins! LOL Next trip to shop, there is a mat on the list. I have in the meantime, a dollar store pet mat...I have to use it upside down and want a nice bigger one. So she is not chasing dinner and breakfast but the situation is not ideal for the humans in that this method is rather fiddly. Improvement in the works!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada