Michigan

[vjwilmoth]

Added to the mix... Chicken math at it's very best is happening here. We are at 20. TWENTY!

White crested blue polish


White Silkie

 

[ladyfeather]

The weather just got nice out here. According to the Weather Channel it jumped 5 degrees to 68 once the clouds gave up. Unfortunately my children won't behave long enough for me to get anything started for the duck and chicken houses. I penned the ducks with some bins and a stack of bricks to let them splash around in a few inches of water.
I have no idea what to do about my son - he wants to chase the ducklings, grab at them, and then when they go nuts he squeals and flings his truck at them! (He is never without one of his trucks, literally sleeps or eats with them.) I was ticked as anything after the third time telling him to stop scaring the ducks as I am trying to rinse out their home. I planted his butt in a time out and banished him from the backyard. 2 year olds are impossible.

 

[NovaAman]

OMG! 3yr olds are too! LOL. Only mine want to get in the duck pool every time i clean it! that includes the 6 yr old who likes ot put Roger the silkie roo in with the ducks and HE terrorizes them!

 

[ladyfeather]

Thank all that is holy and evil that I am not the only one. I am beyond relieved but also dismayed it doesn't get any better by 3! LOL

I can not wait to get the ducks and chickens in their makeshift stealth homes tonight. The ducklings are huge compared to what they were a couple weeks ago and they have no more room in the 30 gal tote and boy do they stink!

 

[NovaAman]

Ok, this is SO BEYOND GROSS! But, I swear to GOD, ducks were created to gross people out! I let my girls out in the morning, and I kid you not, its sound like wet dog farts every time they crap! How does this happen! LOL.

 

[ladyfeather]

Hahaha! XD

Mine crap constantly and it is nothing like chicken poop. I keep thinking they must be sick because its is so wet and loose and everywhere! Luckily they aren't large enough to make a whole lot of noise when they poop

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[NovaAman]

Just wait... They will. The nice thing though, duck poop washes away very very easily from a duck coop if you make sure you have linoleum down. Just take a pistol type sprayer... ALSO, set your duck coop on an angle so the poop and water go out the door... you know, how a house settles and water runs in one direction instead of just puddling... so, just enough so the water runs where you want it. Yup. AND get some bread crates if you can, so they can go in the far corner of the coop and the ducks will lay their eggs in the clean pine shavings and crap everywhere else. I use three, and they tend to lay in the farthest away one, and not crap in that one. Makes for much cleaner eggs.

 

[NovaAman]

I LOVE THIS ONE VJ!

 

[ladyfeather]

I will try, Nova. Unfortunately we don't have the room at this point to make the huge area we want to do I will what we can tonight. I don't have any lino so we were going to paint all of the wood. I'm stressed and at my wits end with this stuff after the snoopy ordinance officer and the complainer who got this started. Off to check the craigslist for scrap lino!

 

[ladyfeather]

Super cute chicks btw! The one on your hand seems really tame.