My Love Affair With Ducks...

[Madhouse Pullet]

Speaking of the smell of animals — now I don’t like the way my outside dogs smell, but other than that I don’t have a problem with ‘smelling like the animals.’ I love the way my horses smell. I know, I’m crazy!

There have been too many days my DH has texted me once he got to work saying he had chicken sh** or duck sh** or dog sh** on his shoe and he about threw up from the smell before he got to work. (He drives an hour each way!) Bwahahaha! The smell doesn’t even bother me anymore! Well, dog sh** does. I tell him he needs to watch where he’s walking!

You're not that crazy! I like the smell of cows at the dairy. My family use to work in dairies when I was a kid so the smell brings back memories when me and my cousins would play and go for adventures. I think that's why I love cows so much, they're so cute. I remember the first time watching my cousin feed a calf and little-kid heart was like, "I want one!"

One day....

Hahaha thankfully my DH doesnt need to worry about it in his shoes, just yet
My kids are constantly stepping in it though. I'm like, how many times do I have to remind them to put sandals in first?! Because they do it every time then look at me like "moooooom "
Ugh.

Yeah I know. Right after I saw this, Petey, my female White Layer, tried to take her turn. What are these ducks thinking?

I guess it’s for sure, their morning hang out is definitely my deck. I guess they want me to see everything! Ugh!

Hahaha no need to pay money at the petting zoo.

 

[duluthralphie]

And look what I just captured the crazies doing!!!
Yep, that crazy Ralphie, or sometimes I call him Ralph Malph (anyone remember ”Happy Days?”) is now chasing his prey on my deck!!!!View attachment 2265469So does this mean he has graduated from only “doing it” in the water? Dear lord!

So you have decided to post your homemade Dux porn now?

It scares me, I prefer turkey porn.



I try to keep an outside pair of flip flops or clogs. But I fail at it and will bring them into the entryway. However, having no smelly animals it’s not that big of a problem for me.

The WW on the other hand thinks it is, but she is not normal.

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

So you have decided to post your homemade Dux porn now?

It scares me, I prefer turkey porn.



I try to keep an outside pair of flip flops or clogs. But I fail at it and will bring them into the entryway. However, having no smelly animals it’s not that big of a problem for me.

The WW on the other hand thinks it is, but she is not normal.

Omgoodness! You're a nut!

 

[duluthralphie]

Omgoodness! You're a nut!

There are two almost identical hillbilly’s on here, I tend to get them mixed up.... it drive me nuts..

The hillbilly’s made me like this.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

But what purse to you carry? How many do you have?

I actually have a man-purse! - Used it when i was travelling, to store all the important stuff like documents, phone, keys, some medication, bars, ... - so that i could just throw it on the belt at the airport insecurity and walk through the MakeYouNaked scanner.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Back when my boys were free ranging, my momma’s boy, Petrie, would just sit at my back screen door and tap.... and tap.... and tap.... ”Mom, let me in! I know you’re in there!”

You have read about Chuck and Buck, the two spoiled drakes living with @SuperDuck and her family?

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Yeah that’s why i was so excited to get rid of some boys and it was sooo peaceful.... but that didn’t last real long. One of my drakes is messed up physically and I’m pretty sure mentally as well so I don’t count him as a drake. He just wants to follow everyone and has no interest in mating. He is strange. So I really only have three drakes now but that is still one too many for what I want.

Get more ducks?

 

[duluthralphie]

I actually have a man-purse! - Used it when i was travelling, to store all the important stuff like documents, phone, keys, some medication, bars, ... - so that i could just throw it on the belt at the airport insecurity and walk through the MakeYouNaked scanner.

I would carry a man purse but I have an image to keep up.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I grew up very similar to you. I was an only child and usually got anything I wanted, within reason of course. However, I wasn’t one of those kids who asked for everything under the sun...and, I took care of what I had! Now, especially since I don’t work, my closet consists of the bare minimum.

Jump ahead to my kids — and a completely different time — in high school, both boys had to wear Abercrombie and Fitch, American Eagle, yada, yada, yada! Now that they have kids of their own I believe they purchase their kids’ clothes at Wally World or second hand.

I wish I had all that money back that I spent on their clothes...I could buy a bunch more chickens!

Taught my son a lesson once: Y'all know there is that »Junior Bag« at Mc FakeFood, where there is some junk-food and junk toys for the kids to keep'em quit so that those "grown-up humons" can eat their junk-burgers in peace? - Anyways in the 90's this company was preying heavy on kids by launching "toy-sets" in those junk bags, you had to eat multiple of these "meals" to collect all parts of the set and the kids went crrrazy for it. - In come the German lawmakers forcing the company to also sell those "toys" without the meal…
There was one particular set, i can't remember what it was (pokefake?) that was extremely popular in son's school and he was permanently nagging me to go to that fake-food chain and buy him a that »Junior Bag« so that he could select his (next) favorite "toy".
One afternoon i had enough! Just received a decent bonus on my salary, money wasn't a problem, so i went with him and he got his »Junior Bag« with this beloved, world-saving action hero… Then i went ahead and bought the other eleven. - Just. Bought. All. Of. Them!
And dumped them onto the table where he was playing.
Pan-cake eyes, mouth open like a subway-tunnel, complete disbelief!
He was soooo happy!
Took all his treasures to school with him the following Monday - only to be told that his collection is no longer "in", "hip" or "cool" as Mc FakeFood had already released the next set of collectible "toys" and those were, of course much "cooler"…
He never again asked for a »Junior Bag«.
Years later, when he moved out and i helped him packing, i smuggled those figurines into one of his bags. Got a call from him immediately after his arrival and we had a good laugh!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Exactly! They’ve made my deck their new favorite spot.

So sit down on their deck with them and have a nice bbq!
My ducks love spicy hot sausages by the way. But they also like to eat roasted peppers and zucchini.