Shaws call duck incubation thread (hatch a wonderful(worthless to Ralphie) dux thread)

[shawluvsbirds]

She really almost looks like my pastel dusky did as a baby.

Pretty dang close!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

the herd

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Still a bit dark out there but I was able to count 9 tiny bodies moving around so 9 made it through the night

 

[duluthralphie]

Been giving it straight down the side of the bill every so often. .then I switched to niacin water.
Just got it reintroduced to the family. Mama took it right back in
I think it's going to make it

I guess, this is good news...........I am happy on a micro basis......but worried on the macro basis about another feathered rat in the world...

 

[duluthralphie]

I'm dealing with a Craigslist idiot.

They advertised nine week old Call ducks, no pictures. Usually I wouldn't even bother but they're selling them for $5 each, so I decided at that price I might as well find out more info.

I emailed asking for a picture. They emailed back saying two are 'pure white' so obviously they are white, and the rest are 'partridge'. I emailed back saying, sorry, don't know that color, as far as I know there's not a color called that in Call ducks, could you be talking about Greys, do they look like mallards?

Just got an email back saying to "Google a picture of a partridge bird" and that "all their Calls are 100% pure" as if I had been implying that their ducks aren't pure. No, idiot, I'm just saying you don't know what color ducks you have.

I sent an email back in as even a tone I could manage saying that I wasn't implying that their birds aren't pure, but there is no color called partridge in Calls ducks. I said there's a color called partridge in chickens, and do they mean their ducks look like that? Because if so, that's called Grey. I told them I need to know the color before I'll consider buying any.

Of course, they could have just sent pictures and avoided this whole thing, but nope, that would be too hard.

Craigslist can be trying at best.....BTW if you pull the feathers off a call duck and roast it for an hour, they all look alike....

 

[duluthralphie]

Fake Eilleen, I assume even you can see the evil devious look in the eye of this "innocent duxling".

 

[duluthralphie]

I am finding I may have to leave this thread.....

I have an empty pen and am afraid staying here could cause me to become mentally unstable and buy a call dux to fill said pen.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

I'm dealing with a Craigslist idiot.

They advertised nine week old Call ducks, no pictures. Usually I wouldn't even bother but they're selling them for $5 each, so I decided at that price I might as well find out more info.

I emailed asking for a picture. They emailed back saying two are 'pure white' so obviously they are white, and the rest are 'partridge'. I emailed back saying, sorry, don't know that color, as far as I know there's not a color called that in Call ducks, could you be talking about Greys, do they look like mallards?

Just got an email back saying to "Google a picture of a partridge bird" and that "all their Calls are 100% pure" as if I had been implying that their ducks aren't pure. No, idiot, I'm just saying you don't know what color ducks you have.

I sent an email back in as even a tone I could manage saying that I wasn't implying that their birds aren't pure, but there is no color called partridge in Calls ducks. I said there's a color called partridge in chickens, and do they mean their ducks look like that? Because if so, that's called Grey. I told them I need to know the color before I'll consider buying any.

Of course, they could have just sent pictures and avoided this whole thing, but nope, that would be too hard.

Just another reason I hate goin through Craigslist ...

View attachment 1545427 the herd

Still a bit dark out there but I was able to count 9 tiny bodies moving around so 9 made it through the night

So glad she made it!

 

[Pyxis]

Just another reason I hate goin through Craigslist ...

Well, it's not always awful, lol. Just yesterday I snagged this new cage for my rats. It would usually cost $100 new, and I got it for $35. It also came with extras like a nice glass water bottle, a litter pan, and a hide. Not bad at all! The rats are happy too.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Well, it's not always awful, lol. Just yesterday I snagged this new cage for my rats. It would usually cost $100 new, and I got it for $35. It also came with extras like a nice glass water bottle, a litter pan, and a hide. Not bad at all! The rats are happy too.

Not bad at all!

I think just have really bad luck with it...