My Love Affair With Ducks...

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I’ve never heard of Cotton Patch Geese. Also, watch this video on Pilgrim Geese. (It popped up after the video you posted.) I’ve never heard of these either. Why aren’t either one of these listed on the hatchery sites I wonder?

You can buy Pilgrim Geese at several Hatcheries and re-sellers, for example:
MyPetChicken, Murray McMurray, Meyer Hatchery and Metzer Farms.
However Cotton Patch Geese are really hard to find! The few farms that sell them won't ship goslings, so you would have to pick them up in person.

 

[Mimi13]

And you wonder who the inmate is.... hmmm.

I have been taught telling someone their an inmate, if they didn’t know already could set them off..


but here is a hint... prisoners clean poop,,,, the captors do not.

So I see said the blind man! Guilty as charged, cause I clean poop!

 

[Mimi13]

You can buy Pilgrim Geese at several Hatcheries and re-sellers, for example:
MyPetChicken, Murray McMurray, Meyer Hatchery and Metzer Farms.
However Cotton Patch Geese are really hard to find! The few farms that sell them won't ship goslings, so you would have to pick them up in person.

I just don’t ever recall seeing them listed in my catalogs. Yes, I still order the paper catalogs. They are like the old Sears Christmas catalog used to be to me when I was little. All well read and perused weekly, dog eared pages and all!

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

These crazy ducks. They love dabbling in their favorite watering hole and I wish they would keep their little fluffy tails up in the yard.
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But as you can see, they have changed where they want to hang out...only while it’s shady though. They do retreat to the shady yard during the heat of the day when my deck has full sun on it.
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I just took this picture of the crazy birds snoozing right outside my back door. I’m convinced they would walk right on inside the house if my door was open! Lord what a mess! Please pardon the reflection.View attachment 2262722

I just noticed that all the ducks got up and left except Quinny. She is still snoozing away. Isn’t that a bit strange? She is still breathing though.
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That looks so beautiful, to wake up to that every day

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

My DH's first reaction to me wanting ducks was, "I don't want to walk all over a bunch of s*** every day." I try ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So I see said the blind man! Guilty as charged, cause I clean poop!

To the deaf dog and the mute bird!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

These crazy ducks. They love dabbling in their favorite watering hole and I wish they would keep their little fluffy tails up in the yard.
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But as you can see, they have changed where they want to hang out...only while it’s shady though. They do retreat to the shady yard during the heat of the day when my deck has full sun on it.
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I just took this picture of the crazy birds snoozing right outside my back door. I’m convinced they would walk right on inside the house if my door was open! Lord what a mess! Please pardon the reflection.View attachment 2262722

I just noticed that all the ducks got up and left except Quinny. She is still snoozing away. Isn’t that a bit strange? She is still breathing though.
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I will never forget that one warm evening late October 2018. The screen doors to the patio were pried because i had to carry 10 bags of duck-pellets from the car around the house, over the patio to the work platform. I was exhausted, laid down on the couch - and fell asleep.
Later that evening, it was already dark outside i was rudely awaken:
Quack!
QuaquaQUACK!
QUACK!
WAQUACK!
Katharina Duck was standing at the open kitchen door, demanding supper.
By the time i got off the sofa she was already standing on top of the one step from the patio to the house, just one step shy of being in the house...
The other four runners were closely watching from the patio stairs, the drakes rasping their lungs out to call her back.

 

[duluthralphie]

I just don’t ever recall seeing them listed in my catalogs. Yes, I still order the paper catalogs. They are like the old Sears Christmas catalog used to be to me when I was little. All well read and perused weekly, dog eared pages and all!

I grew up much poorer than you rich Southie plantation types did. We “read” our Sears or Wards catalogue daily, but the reading was much faster in the winter.

 

[duluthralphie]

My DH's first reaction to me wanting ducks was, "I don't want to walk all over a bunch of s*** every day." I try ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

To the deaf dog and the mute bird!

When I was hoodwinked into buying some baby geese by a cute little kid, that I later figured had to be the devil’s daughter, I tried to keep them locked up.

I failed at keeping them in any pen. I was under my truck fixing something, the geese had come to visit, then left after I yelled at them to get out of the shed.

When I reached for a wrench, above my head, lying on my back, I got a juicy goose pie instead.

When I went to slide out from under the truck, I was well lubricated on the back of my head..

I really, really, dislike waterfowl.

But those pilgrim geese look tempting.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I just don’t ever recall seeing them listed in my catalogs. Yes, I still order the paper catalogs. They are like the old Sears Christmas catalog used to be to me when I was little. All well read and perused weekly, dog eared pages and all!

I love to page back and forth in those catalogs too! - Usually while sitting in the room that even the king visits alone. But nowadays those catalogs last much longer than in the past…

 

[duluthralphie]

I love to page back and forth in those catalogs too! - Usually while sitting in the room that even the king visits alone. But nowadays those catalogs last much longer than in the past…

Those catalogues were essential to us back then...

I grew up very poor, the other essential in our lives was potato soup. We were overjoyed (well us kids were) when a cow had to be put down, it meant meat.