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Another story about ducks i have heart: During the 1800's into the early 1900's people in Europe (dunno about the Americas, but guess it was similar) were eating duck-eggs instead of chicken eggs. Ducks were used to keep the vegetation at fire-ponds, canals and other bodies of water at bey with the additional benefits that they could not fly away (like xickens), could be herded to their workspace and back (unlike xickens) and laid more eggs than the, at those times, exotic xickens.You know, I had never thought of ducks being like dogs and chickens like cats, but I think you are right.
I would not mind having one drake in 8-10 ducklings, way better than having three cork-screwers out of four! And as far as i have heart, Metzer farms has a very high success rate with identifying ducks. It is more likely to have a surprise-duck if you order drakes only.Oh dear, I know what you’re saying. Those faces, though!
Beware ordering all females! Remember, that’s what I did and Ralphie appeared!
They will always love their momma!!! - Even though as a teenager the just have to distance from you to be allowed into the cool kids clubhouse!I know my ducks cuss me, so we can call that a form of rioting. But then again, they still let me love on them. Or maybe it’s more like tolerating me.
I thought about turkeys more as feathered T-Rexes…You cannot say that!
Turkeys are feathered dogs. Dux are like vermin of some kind...
Uuum! - I wouldn't call it a wrench. It looks more like a danglin' corkscrew…Dang duck. He’s cute and all, but he threw a flippin wrench in my plans.
I do hope you have only large xicken breeds that are able to defend themselves against a hormone overloaded young drake! - You may want to keep them separated until Ralphie has used up his initial boost of testosterone and calms down…I have tried many times to catch Ralphie’s Whistle Grunt on video and I finally did. However, it isn’t that easy to hear.
Also, he did a real NO NO yesterday. He tried to climb on top of Gabby, my Speckled Sussex. That just ain’t gonna fly. She got loose from him and came back after him. To my knowledge she is the only one of my hens to have flogged any of the ducks. You’d think the goofy duck would remember her. What am I gonna do?
Whenever the ducks dig one of their mudholes, i drop in some sunflower seeds - just from their food - and put a wire-mesh cylinder around until the sunflowers are at least 3' tall.I love growing sunflowers. We have 4 on the front fence and a dozen in the garden. Ours are the Mammouth .