Nevadans?

[daegorn]

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I'm not as good a photographer as some of you are but here is a picture of a pair of the Harly's

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49695_harliquine_pair_cut.jpg

I wish I had as nice a pond for them as you have for your ducks.

Ok I want one or two!

Just for fun I thought I'd throw in a couple of pictures of the Polish chickens I got this spring too.

Look like mine with no tail, she get it pecked off all the time
This first one is a Golden Polish.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49695_polish_golden_cut.jpg

And these are Buff Polish.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49695_polish_buff_cut.jpg

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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me, but Polish birds always remind me of Ms. Phyllis Diller

 

[laceynoelle]

Hey Sunny, I think its more odd? lol.
Urg. Our ducklings are dying. I think we're doing everything right, but these little guys seem to fall over dead over everything. Is it a muscovy thing?

 

[Peep_Show]

Once upon a time I had a big fence-less pond that teamed with all sorts of waterfowl. I had Muscovies once. Rapacious things... could clear a pond of mallards pretty quick as anything that paddled and quacked -- didn't matter what sex -- was fair game for their non-foreplay overtures. As summer went along there were a couple of in-the-woodpile light fuzzies paddling behind mama mallard ducks.

They -- the muscovies -- also were far less selective in their diet than the mallards and we lost a couple to varmit bait. Are yours free-rangers?

I liked them, though, as they were real personable ducks. Tended towards misadventure, though. (Muscovies and laying Canadian honkers do NOT mix.... I saw the latter drown several of the former on the pond). Nature is a beautiful and dramatic soap opera....

 

[laceynoelle]

No, theyre all fenced in. They have a mama duck to help take care of them, them have water, but its got a brick in it so they dont drown, they eat twice a day. Im not sure. Could they be getting too cold, even under the mama duck?

 

[Eglyntine]

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me, but Polish birds always remind me of Ms. Phyllis Diller

Actually I have named our White Crested Black Polish, Phyllis (Phyllis Diller), Carol (Carol Channing) and Rod (Rod Stewart)

 

[SunnyDawn]

Lacey, I'm so sorry your ducklings are doing so poorly. I've never had ducks so I know little about them.

BTW I'm sure you're correct. The proper phrase would be "more odd". I think odder just had the right comedic sound to me that late at night.

Math, arts and science (actually math is a science) are definitely more my subjects. I never did well in the language arts. Before I went to college it was much worse though.

 

[daegorn]

This is such a great bunch! I am reading on the Marans thred and I have to come back hear for a good smile!
OK I am home schooling my kido and we are doing money, he is not a math kid. He has published 4 poems at the age of 7! But getting him to count coins is going to make me go gray If any one has a good suggestion on how to help him go from 25 to 35 instead of 30...he just dose not change from tens to fives. I have used money and the dry erase board and counting cubes.

I can't write with out spell check! Engineering mind hear

 

[laceynoelle]

Im decent at math but i hate it (Ive taken 5 years of because it looks good to colleges. Ug.

) . I love english, history, and science. The ducklings need some B3, and they should be good. Im not much of a duck person either or i would of known that. Grr, poor babies,

 

[SunnyDawn]

Daegorn, try arranging the coins on a platter with something he likes (pieces of fruit, pretzels etc) to represent each coins value. For instance a nickel would be placed below 5 grapes, a dime below 10 pretzels. Leave plenty of space between the different coins and their value items. Explain that each coins value is not dependent on it's size but on it's value (being able to picture it's value will help with this). Or you can draw in items for a value.
Many young children get confused with money values, especially considering the size of the coins do not correspond to the their values. Placing them next to their values often helps the child visualize the coin's worth better. If he is a very auditory learner try turning the lesson into a rhyme.
BTW, be patient and don't let your son see your frustration. When he gets stressed out he will shut down. Make a game out of it. Eating the treats when he has gotten an answer right is just fine. Or if he eats a pretzel and you replace it so he knows the value must remain the same for each coin may work also. Don't let him know you hate math but do let him know that sometimes it takes a bit to get it and that you have felt the same frustration at times. But you know when the light goes on it happens suddenly in math and that repetition is good since it helps us practice the skills so we don't forget.
You can also play "store" by letting him purchase items with different coins but not until he gets the coin's values down a little better.
Good Luck!!!