One of these days…

[Magnolia Ducks]

Snow shovel is a great herding tool. Also fantastic for shoveling shavings.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I remember when I let my hen hatch out 25 ducklings...I was new to ducks (and I still am--this is technically my second year with them) and when I look back to it, I wonder if I should have pulled some eggs!

But pretty regularly those ducklings never wanted to go inside at night. Ever. The majority would follow mama duck, but the problem was, mama duck didn't want to go inside either. Cue to me racing around and around the coop and in the yard chasing those little buggers, sometimes with a rake or stick that they've learned to righteously fear. (Anyone else have that one broom or rake that the ducks are terrified of and won't go near? )

The worst was when there were one or two ducklings left that I just couldn't catch or chase into the coop.

I won't go into that time that I could NOT get my one duck into the coop...back when I just had 2. I'd race all over the yard after her, get her in, then my other duck would escape, and on and on it went seemingly forever...

You'd think (and I know a lot of ducks can and are like this) they'd get used to the routine and never give us trouble...

Not that one broom, but a fast blinking LED flashlight. Scares them all to death, not only run they into their house, they also hide in their bedrooms and scream…
I hate myself for doing this every time i lost my patience. It requires extra duck-crack the next morning to regain their trust.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Another one of these days!!!
On Sunday i rushed to get the Rhubarb, tomato and pepper plants into the ground before the forcasted big rainstorm - that turned out to be a lame shower…
I watched the thermometer anxiously overnight, heater on standby but we never reached the freezing point. All plants were well this morning. This afternoon however:

How could the be? The plants are duck-protected with a plastic fence.
Katharina and Curiosity Duck crawled under the step of the patio walked to the side, squeezed out and helped themselves to some tasty greeneries.


They knew it was forbidden: When i opened the patio door they both panicked and tried to get out and in this process trampled the rhubarb!

Anybody knows a good recipe for roasted Indian Curry Runner duck?

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

With rubarb!

 

[Texag87]

Another one of these days!!!
On Sunday i rushed to get the Rhubarb, tomato and pepper plants into the ground before the forcasted big rainstorm - that turned out to be a lame shower…
I watched the thermometer anxiously overnight, heater on standby but we never reached the freezing point. All plants were well this morning. This afternoon however:

How could the be? The plants are duck-protected with a plastic fence.
Katharina and Curiosity Duck crawled under the step of the patio walked to the side, squeezed out and helped themselves to some tasty greeneries.


They knew it was forbidden: When i opened the patio door they both panicked and tried to get out and in this process trampled the rhubarb!

Anybody knows a good recipe for roasted Indian Curry Runner duck?

Your runners are too old to eat

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Pressure cooker!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Pressure cooker!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Your runners are too old to eat

Seriously?! - They're not even one year old. At what age are duckies being slaughtered in the industry?

 

[Loopeend]

Hi friends,

do you too sometimes have one of these days where (of course only in your fantasy) would like to grab one of your ducks by the throat and start turning slowly… ?

I swear next time i' gonna grab Limpy by the throat and …

Told my wife a hundred times not to feed meal worms to the ducks after five pm (sounds like in the Gremlin's movie eh?). If they have their late meal worms, they don't want to go inside.
It was raining on and off the whole day here, so the "grass" between the house and the duck-burg has turned into slippery mud.
At 8:30pm i cut an iceberg salad, dropped it into a bowl with luke-warm water garnished with some meal-worms and went out to collect the duckies. Nona and Erpelchen came running immediately, had their test bite and then followed me like little pet-dogs to the duck house. Followed by all other ducks except Limpy who sat rasping in the duck pool.
All ducks inside the house i walked up the hill to drag Limpy out of the water who insisted he wants to sleep in the pool tonight. Do you know that grown up ducks can do that "topedo" thing too? They just don't torpedo through the water but create a huge splash that will soak you. The ground around the pool is muddy and slippery and in the end i was crawling on all four to reach into the pool and drag the drake out. Not risking any further escape i carried him back to the duck house, where the other's had just gulped down the salad and started to run back out again.
Threw Limpy into the duck house and herded the others back inside, everybody was in when i heart "Rasp! Raaasp! Raaasp!" from behind - Limpy! In the pool again!
ImGonnaGrabYouByDaThroat - Drake! Same procedure: Me again on all four crawling around the pool, Limpy splashing and emptying the dirty pool water all over me, i swear all the other ducks were standing at the door laughing at me! Finally i got him and while i carried him down to the duck house i felt something warm soaking into my shirt… Thank's Limpy! That shirt needed a thorough cleaning anyways…

So that's my story for today, have you experienced one of these days too?

No never, No clue what you are talking about. I'm too busy with the ducks pooping rainbows and baking sparkly glitter chocolate chip cookies together. 'You need yourself checked out' said one of my ducks right now when we were unicorns.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

No never, No clue what you are talking about. I'm too busy with the ducks pooping rainbows and baking sparkly glitter chocolate chip cookies together. 'You need yourself checked out' said one of my ducks right now when we were unicorns.

I bet that was the German duck who said that!