The Duck Thread

[Kaessa]

Where did you get those pallets? I'm looking for some so that my chickens are off the ground.

There is a shipping place not far from us that always has free pallets. Craigslist is another good place to look.

 

[hennible]

I do not wash my eggs until it's time to use them.  I have tried the wash the eggs and put them in the fridge, it only takes the protective coating off and guess what, yep, the eggs did not last as long.  Just went bad after a few weeks. 

That's what I do. And the ones I sell don't get washed until hours before drop off.

 

[attimus]

LOL, I hear you, they are suppose to lay during the fall and spring but mine too are WAY off schedule.  However, mine are youngsters so I'm wondering if this may have something to do with it.  I have heard the heating lamps will throw off there schedule.  Do you have any heating lamps going?  I have two..

no heat lamps. They will be a year old in April. The weather has been super weird up here. At one point a nest I found had up around 20 eggs in it. This was after one abandoned her first nest after about 3 weeks of sitting on it sometimes in torrential down pours mixed with 70 degree days.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I always refrigerate my eggs, I have tried the "on the counter thing" after two weeks the eggs started getting rotten. YEH, not a pretty smell. They seem to last Longer in the fridge..

Me too!

 

[Lacrystol]

There is a shipping place not far from us that always has free pallets. Craigslist is another good place to look.

OK well I have a couple of people who have them but man they are far about 2 hours away..

 

[Miss Lydia]

OK well I have a couple of people who have them but man they are far about 2 hours away..

Try Lowes the one closest to us is about 25 miles but I see pallets stacked up behind the store with people loading them up.

 

[Lacrystol]

Try Lowes the one closest to us is about 25 miles but I see pallets stacked up behind the store with people loading them up.

AHHH OK..

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Awww thank you.

They are so cute!

 

[City farm]

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MY husband SWEARS there's a difference in taste and can't stand eating duck eggs, he says they are TOO RICH, so I put him to the test.  I made him some scrabbled eggs and ONLY used duck eggs without informing him.  I even toss the shells down the garbage disposal, cracked some chicken eggs and threw those shells in the trash.  YES, He looked in the trash to make sure it was from the chickens..  he comes over to me and SAYS: and I quote "OMG, that was the best I have every tasted".  I said "really, Hum, so you really like those duck eggs". 

You are so funny! ! I love it.. they do taste different.. my next goal is to make homemade mayonnaise, then use the egg white's for pound cake.

 

[Nikki816]

Our baby ducklings (and silkies). Ducky surprise is 2 weeks old and we think a pekin mix. It hatched from an egg our friend gave us that we thought was a chicken egg. We also have 2 buff females, 2 magpie females and 1 magpie male that are 1 week old.