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[Miss Lydia]

Finally, some more picture of my muscovies.

They are going to be sold this week, I found someone who wants to buy all five of them. Although I still don't really want to give them away I'm glad that they can stay together.

But at least mother duck is sitting on a new clutch, despite the five young ducks as company she managed to build a nest.




The fuzzball showing her wing.



Faust and Selma in the foreground. The caruncle above the bill is developing, the facial feathers are receding.

They are beautiful Frank, and look at Fuzzball. Wow. Good to see you on BYC again.

 

[Going Quackers]

If it's clean, that's true. Unfortunately, man's destruction knows no bounds. Fracking, chemical leeching and runoffs are poisoning ground water and even the aquafers. We take purity and safety of our water for granted - and shouldn't. Periodic testing is often ignored. Not sure why surface water was flagged as a possible source of the problem (other than a dead mouse) but when it comes to health and saftey of ones family...wouldn't play. It's inexpensive, if not free, usually through the health dept.

Yes, that is why i said i don't disagree with having it tested, i know of all the damage done to well systems with ongoing building, spraying of chemicals etc contamination is possible. I was just saying towards the end, my personals feelings on wells vs treated in general.

You run across quite a negative undertone towards treated vs wells often, officials trying to push the rural folks out of their SAFE water supplies (obviously some are not, clearly those have to be addressed differently) , my point simply being you have to be smart about it, and informed again why i did not disagree with testing.

 

[Going Quackers]

good news and bad. I candled all of my eggs to day, 20 of them. Good news was they aren't all dead, bad news is only three of the twenty are alive. The three living ones were moving and seemed rather healthy, I'll have to find nice homes for them because I can't keep them but it is good to know my girls did something right. Maybe next time they'll have better luck.

Small victories? at least some did make it. Focus on the positive!

 

[Going Quackers]

I'm sure its not anything in the well cause my well has been tested last year and I'm about get it tested again so yah I think I can rule that out, I interrogated our neighbors and they have been putting deacon out

so that Is my supposed culprit, the pond is a medium kiddie pool size its a runoff from a duck pond up in the woods so there might be something about that my hubby hiked up there to see what's up with that pond, and my sis is going to happily keep my ducks for a while, and I will get the tests results in 2 days because we live close to a place that does that

and my marans and buffs and barred rocks are okay.

What is deacon? i am assuming some sort of chemical? weeds, fertilizer? never heard of it.

Glad you have a safe place to keep the remaining! hopefully, the testing will yield some answers.

 

[Going Quackers]

Finally, some more picture of my muscovies.

They are going to be sold this week, I found someone who wants to buy all five of them. Although I still don't really want to give them away I'm glad that they can stay together.

But at least mother duck is sitting on a new clutch, despite the five young ducks as company she managed to build a nest.




The fuzzball showing her wing.



Faust and Selma in the foreground. The caruncle above the bill is developing, the facial feathers are receding.

Lovely group! it's nice when you can find someone to take multiples, that is how most of my boys from last year went, together. I still haven't even tried to sell my current clutch lol

 

[Frank Phinster]

Yes it's good to be back. Didn't have much time recently due to limited access to the internet, but that's over now

I agree with you, Miss Lydia, fuzzball really has become a beauty. Living proof that caring for a runt does not need to be a forlorn hope.

 

[EdenCamp]

What is deacon? i am assuming some sort of chemical? weeds, fertilizer? never heard of it.

Glad you have a safe place to keep the remaining! hopefully, the testing will yield some answers.

D-con is rat poison. Nasty stuff.

Preaching to the choir on city water! Old, rotten leaking pipes, stuff leaching in, spotty testing (and rarely tell the public about failed dates). No arguments from me, just discussion. Did I come off confrontational? Didn't mean too.

 

[Going Quackers]

D-con is rat poison. Nasty stuff.

Preaching to the choir on city water! Old, rotten leaking pipes, stuff leaching in, spotty testing (and rarely tell the public about failed dates). No arguments from me, just discussion. Did I come off confrontational? Didn't mean too.

aw, i see.. i had no idea.. yikes, okay that could be a big problem if that is around. We use nothing like that here.

no worries on the wells, it's a rather frustrating subject in these parts lol i think in the end were both in agreement and saying the same things, just in differing ways.

 

[LILMaranLady]

D-con is rat poison. Nasty stuff.

Preaching to the choir on city water! Old, rotten leaking pipes, stuff leaching in, spotty testing (and rarely tell the public about failed dates). No arguments from me, just discussion. Did I come off confrontational? Didn't mean too.

I called the people who were doing the test to tell them to look out for d-con and they said that there were going to call me and tell me that the ducks were poisoned by some sort of rat poison
Ill get the full results tomorrow
I guess that's all for the mystery, BUT how do you empty a pond full of d-con water ??
Btw EdenCamp you have been super helpful

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[EdenCamp]

Have the pond water tested by the health dept/DNR. If it's been contaminated by your neighbor's poison - it's on your neighbor to fix. DNR is liable to jump them for you.... carry a lot more clout than having to take them to court if they don't want to do the right thing voluntarily.

Glad to be of any help.