Show off your house ducks!

[Julie Birb]

I am a psychiatrist, I'm totally used to having people drop problems in my lap, so I rewrote the letter using my knowledge of the roommate's history and behavior patterns, so that the letter was venom free and very understanding, but remained firm that he had to leave. If he were a patient, I could have charged him a ridiculous amount of money for me to steer him in the correct direction as far as writing the letter went, and would never have to see it or touch it myself. I'm everybody's mother, from baby birds, to my 84 year old mother with dementia, to my nearly 58 year old friend with the disrespectful housemate, so I end up mitigating a lot of potential social disasters... 
Penny the pheasant still hasn't returned, despite her mate calling for her all day.  She will likely be back in a few days if the ground stays mostly covered, because there is food here... My husband tried to console the cock: "For the effort we are putting into her, we could raise up another 50 just like her for you! You are better off without her!" Yeah, even the pheasant cock is getting therapy...

oh, I hope she comes back. And regarding the letter, hopefully your friend's situation gets resolved. Speaking of elderly parents I am in ca helping mine so these ducks are a great distraction for me.

 

[Julie Birb]

You can tell which ducklings I didn't hatch by the stank eye...

want. To. Kiss. Those. Yellow fuzzlets. Now. But I am 3000 mi away.

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

oh, I hope she comes back. And regarding the letter, hopefully your friend's situation gets resolved. Speaking of elderly parents I am in ca helping mine so these ducks are a great distraction for me.

My mother loves to watch the baby birds, and really enjoys checking the brooder regularly when I'm in full swing production. She has no idea how the little birds arrive in the brooder at this point, but the soft, friendly, babies always make her happy. I have 39 eggs in 2 incubators already, and am expecting another 16 just for the March/early April hatching cycle, and will run the incubators pretty much non stop now until my ladies stop laying and/or I don't feel the weather is conducive to good hatch rates from shipped eggs. It's a wonderful distraction for both her and myself - and I'm glad they work for you too! The next two batches of ducks hatching out will be calls, with chickens in between. Then it should be on to geese, ducks and chickens, then ducks, quail and pheasant, and whatever else I can fit in the incubators each month! (I can see myself building a third before long....) The calls will be staying indoors most likely, as well at least one Saxony - the one my husband named "Mr. Perfect" will be completely impossible for me to not keep with me at all times...

 

[Amykins]

LOL Yes, I can tell. Not from the stank eye, but from the trio of butts facing the camera!

And I do hope you give us lotsa photos of the call duck babies! Speaking of call ducks, Wobbles has become quite good at getting into places he knows he should't be. Groan. My parents call him their "grandduck". Because of course they do.

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

LOL Yes, I can tell. Not from the stank eye, but from the trio of butts facing the camera!

And I do hope you give us lotsa photos of the call duck babies! Speaking of call ducks, Wobbles has become quite good at getting into places he knows he should't be. Groan. My parents call him their "grandduck". Because of course they do.

LOL!!! The batch of eggs that is coming in this week is out of the same parents as the ones you are incubating, so we can share sibling pictures next month!!!! The ones due for the easter HAL are Butterscotch!

 

[Amykins]

LOL!!! The batch of eggs that is coming in this week is out of the same parents as the ones you are incubating, so we can share sibling pictures next month!!!! The ones due for the easter HAL are Butterscotch!

Oh my gosh, you're getting chocolates, too? SQUEEEE! That's so cool, they'll literally be siblings! Oh, how exciting! I should probably be more acting in the HAL threads. There are a bunch of people expecting fuzzbutts the same week as me.

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

Oh my gosh, you're getting chocolates, too? SQUEEEE! That's so cool, they'll literally be siblings! Oh, how exciting! I should probably be more acting in the HAL threads. There are a bunch of people expecting fuzzbutts the same week as me.

My ginormous incubator full of EEs from Rancher is due on the 31st - just set them this morning after letting them sit overnight to recover from the 2 hour drive home, and my first batch of calls is due on the 4th for the Easter Hatch-A-Long, the siblings to your babies will be due on the 9th if I set them this Saturday, and somewhere in there, there will be some Malays... It will be a fuzzy butt explosion!!

I am unbelievably excited about the call siblings!!! Their parents are drop dead gorgeous, so it will be fun to watch them all as they mature!

 

[18angovem]

Oh my gosh, you're getting chocolates, too? SQUEEEE! That's so cool, they'll literally be siblings! Oh, how exciting! I should probably be more acting in the HAL threads. There are a bunch of people expecting fuzzbutts the same week as me.

We can make a little call duck HAL. lol. And they canall ducks! lol all be from the same chocolate call ducks!

 

[Amykins]

My ginormous incubator full of EEs from Rancher is due on the 31st - just set them this morning after letting them sit overnight to recover from the 2 hour drive home, and my first batch of calls is due on the 4th for the Easter Hatch-A-Long, the siblings to your babies will be due on the 9th if I set them this Saturday, and somewhere in there, there will be some Malays... It will be a fuzzy butt explosion!!

I am unbelievably excited about the call siblings!!! Their parents are drop dead gorgeous, so it will be fun to watch them all as they mature!

Right?? 18Angovem is so kind to give us eggs from his stunning chocolate pair. <3 And WOO HOO FOR FUZZBUTT EXPLOSION!!

I wish I could set it up so we could all meet up for a little choco family reunion down the road!

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

Right?? 18Angovem is so kind to give us eggs from his stunning chocolate pair. <3 And WOO HOO FOR FUZZBUTT EXPLOSION!!

I wish I could set it up so we could all meet up for a little choco family reunion down the road!

That would be awesome - we could call it "Hot Chocolate"!!!