Show off your house ducks!

[jannakaye]

Yeah I have been in a few..... What breed is Nibbles? What type of show? Remember to be disease cautious! I only go to shows where disease testing is required and then after that I quaranteen all my birds afterwards. That is the birds that went to the show.

Nibbs is a pekin and its a formal poultry show. They won't let you enter the bird unless it's NPIP registered, thank goodness. I would be scared to death if they were letting untested birds in!

 

[Julie Birb]

I have Systemic Lupus, so I retired when I got too sick to keep a regular schedule, and got the birds as physical therapy for myself.  I have to get up and move, no matter how much I hurt, and no matter how sick I feel, and go out to care for everyone.  I had to talk my daughter and husband through an assisted hatch while hospitalized last year, by text, in the middle of the night from my hospital bed, but for the most part, it is pretty much just me, and an ever expanding group of birds. I can't not keep busy, so the birds have been a perfect low impact activity! Plus, shortly after I retired, my mother's condition deteriorated, so I can be home with her to allow her to remain in her home instead of being in a nursing home.  It was a winning situation for all!

I am sorry to hear that and am glad to read you're coping with it thru your fun menagerie of birds. We all know it's a fact how wonderfully therapeutic critters are. And just the sight, sound and feel of a cute fuzzy or feathery ducklet is enough to get the dopamine and other feel good neurotransmitters flowing. Seeing a cute bird triggers something in me that's positive.

 

[Julie Birb]

Have any of you guys ever entered your ducks in a show? Planning on putting my Nibbles in one this april.

Nibbles is a cute name. Do you have pics of her?

 

[Julie Birb]

Penny the pheasant is back in the aviary.  The cock called for her until she came back, again.  I tried to recruit the family to help me coax her back in (she knows where she belongs, and a few days out in the real world and she decided it was totally not as cool as she had thought it would be) - nobody was interested. So I went out, and she and I walked in slow circles around the aviary.  The door was open, but she couldn't wrap her head around the idea that because of the snow, she would have to hop up to get inside. So around we went. The dialogue was the same as for the ducklings, minus the "Don't put that in your mouth!" "Drop that!" and "Give that to mommy!"  Instead it was me telling Penny what a good girl she was when she headed towards the door, along with "Oh no! Don't go back that way!" Did watch one of my Khaki drakes try to put the moves on Mama Saxony.  Her mate was otherwise engaged by the dominant gander, who was in the process of explaining that he was the top bird in the yard.  When she figured out what the Khaki was up to, she grabbed him by the neck and whipped him around like a rag doll.  Apparently, No meant No...

I am happy she made it back home safely. Is the dominant gander large compared to the Saxony drake? These birds of yours are a comedy show. If you filmed all the action, I'd watch it.

 

[Amykins]

I am sorry to hear that and am glad to read you're coping with it thru your fun menagerie of birds. We all know it's a fact how wonderfully therapeutic critters are. And just the sight, sound and feel of a cute fuzzy or feathery ducklet is enough to get the dopamine and other feel good neurotransmitters flowing. Seeing a cute bird triggers something in me that's positive.

^ THIS! I have uterine tumors AND endometriosis, which cause me an incredible amount of pain. But since Wobbles came into my life, I don't just lie around all day long anymore because...well, I can't! Wobbles has to be fed, walked, changed, bathed, etc. every single day. His entire world depends on me. And in a weird way, it has been therapeudic because with such a cute lil' fluffbutt who needs me and loves me 24/7, I don't focus on the pain so much anymore. And since ducks have a naturally high average temperature, he makes a great makeshift heating pad!

 

[jannakaye]

Nibbles is a cute name. Do you have pics of her?

Haha thanks

Here he is when he was a baby on one of his outdoor outings.

 

[jannakaye]

Haha thanks

Here he is when he was a baby on one of his outdoor outings.

And here he is after I attempted to dye him for spring time lol (don't know why it wouldn't let me put two pics?)

 

[18angovem]

^ THIS! I have uterine tumors AND endometriosis, which cause me an incredible amount of pain. But since Wobbles came into my life, I don't just lie around all day long anymore because...well, I can't! Wobbles has to be fed, walked, changed, bathed, etc. every single day. His entire world depends on me. And in a weird way, it has been therapeudic because with such a cute lil' fluffbutt who needs me and loves me 24/7, I don't focus on the pain so much anymore. And since ducks have a naturally high average temperature, he makes a great makeshift heating pad!

Why dont you get a hysterectomy? (I think thats the right term? Its where your uterus is removed)

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

^ THIS! I have uterine tumors AND endometriosis, which cause me an incredible amount of pain. But since Wobbles came into my life, I don't just lie around all day long anymore because...well, I can't! Wobbles has to be fed, walked, changed, bathed, etc. every single day. His entire world depends on me. And in a weird way, it has been therapeudic because with such a cute lil' fluffbutt who needs me and loves me 24/7, I don't focus on the pain so much anymore. And since ducks have a naturally high average temperature, he makes a great makeshift heating pad!

See! Ducks are totally therapeutic! You could probably register Wobbles as a service animal

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

I am happy she made it back home safely. Is the dominant gander large compared to the Saxony drake? These birds of yours are a comedy show. If you filmed all the action, I'd watch it.

Narcissus the gander is HUGE! He isn't bulky like the Toulouse, but he is really, really tall! (He is the goose in my profile pic) He is the primary guardian of my flock. He pair bonded to another gander, so he doesn't have a nest to protect, but he fiercely defends the yard from, well, everything... Any male waterfowl he doesn't know gets a brief beat down, then as far as he is concerned, everything is cool!