The Duck Thread

[Pekin1999]

Oops, the last picture isn't supposed to be on here, that is some cabinets we built, sorry about that, here is the most recent picture I have of Rex and Sadie

This may sound weird but those are two of the nicest looking ducks I've ever seen. My neighbor has a few rouens but the colors aren't that distinct and are speckled a bit. Fawn and white Indian runners always look good though. But your ducks look very clean too! Mine play in the mud all day so I don't know what to expect hahaha. But even when I've shown ducks, I've seen pretty ducks but I just really like those two.

 

[Jattaway]

Oh, thank you, I think they are beautiful but I'm biased, lol
It's funny cause I thought I was getting a Peking when I bought them, and never having had ducks before, thought my Rex was an ugly duckling, kept waiting for her to start looking Pekingish, started researching and found out she is an Indian runner, she has turned into my beautiful swan,

They do get dirty, we live in Florida and the rainy season makes for a mud lake in my back yard and they love it,
But they swim a lot, and I try to keep their area really clean because we are out there with them a lot and it's a small area,
I'm very excited that she is laying eggs now, and am hoping she will brood, don't really know how to tell if she is going to yet but I'm crossing my fingers,
Thanks for the feedback and any info about brooding and incubating would be appreciated

 

[Jattaway]

Oh, thank you, I think they are beautiful but I'm biased, lol
It's funny cause I thought I was getting a Peking when I bought them, and never having had ducks before, thought my Rex was an ugly duckling, kept waiting for her to start looking Pekingish, started researching and found out she is an Indian runner, she has turned into my beautiful swan,

They do get dirty, we live in Florida and the rainy season makes for a mud lake in my back yard and they love it,
But they swim a lot, and I try to keep their area really clean because we are out there with them a lot and it's a small area,
I'm very excited that she is laying eggs now, and am hoping she will brood, don't really know how to tell if she is going to yet but I'm crossing my fingers,
Thanks for the feedback and any info about brooding and incubating would be appreciated

 

[Jattaway]

They grow so fast, but their personality didn't change much, Rex is still a sweetly, and Sadie is definetly a drake, they are both so smart and bring me lots of joy!

 

[Jattaway]

My Dog Cody and my ducks,
Hiding from the camera under elephant ear plants,lol, I think they get weary of me following them around with my I pad trying to get pics

 

[sryglet]

My pekin (her name is Howard, lol) laid an egg this morning that had THREE yolks! Have you ever seen this before?! I'm incubating one of her eggs and now I'm a little worried that it may have multiple yolks too. Would that harm the viability of the egg(s)?

 

[JadeComputerGal]

My pekin (her name is Howard, lol) laid an egg this morning that had THREE yolks! Have you ever seen this before?! I'm incubating one of her eggs and now I'm a little worried that it may have multiple yolks too. Would that harm the viability of the egg(s)?

Someone else posted a triple-yolk egg just recently. Not unheard of, but pretty uncommon.

You should be able to candle the egg you're incubating to see if it has multiple yolks. Eggs with two yolks will sometimes hatch, but I've never heard of a case where both of the little ones survive. I can't imagine that an egg with three yolks hatching, but there are a lot of things that have happened that I've never heard of.

 

[needlessjunk]

My pekin (her name is Howard, lol) laid an egg this morning that had THREE yolks! Have you ever seen this before?! I'm incubating one of her eggs and now I'm a little worried that it may have multiple yolks too. Would that harm the viability of the egg(s)?

@caesargirl I think you are the expert when it comes to this.

 

[sryglet]

Someone else posted a triple-yolk egg just recently. Not unheard of, but pretty uncommon.

You should be able to candle the egg you're incubating to see if it has multiple yolks. Eggs with two yolks will sometimes hatch, but I've never heard of a case where both of the little ones survive. I can't imagine that an egg with three yolks hatching, but there are a lot of things that have happened that I've never heard of.

I just candled it and it appears to only have one yolk.

 

[Frindizzle]

You guys don't might if I rant for a minute, do you? I made a thread for this in the Random Ramblings section but it's always nice to vent to friends

I've been selling eggs on eBay. I had read accounts of egg sellers getting burned and I probably should have known better after reading threads like this one, but there's really no other place to reach such a large customer base so I went ahead and did it. I hadn't had any problems until recently, when my last two buyers didn't pay. Now, eggs are time sensitive, of course, so I opened an upaid item case (my eBay account is set up to do it automatically after two days go by and I'm not paid).

The first buyer finally pays five days after the auction closes. Now the eggs that I had set aside and ready to ship for them, had they paid when the auction closed like it said to in my auction, couldn't be sent any more, they were too old. So I had to throw them all out. Obviously I can't send eggs I don't have, so I had to wait till the birds laid new eggs to send. While waiting (I had sent two messages to the buyer at this point, the first one asking for payment, the second explaining the situation, and gotten no reply) I received feedback for eggs she hadn't even received from me yet, calling me impatient but saying that the eggs were great. Now, I'm not impatient, firstly. Her delayed payment caused me to have to throw out 14 eggs I would have otherwise sold. Secondly, I hadn't even shipped the eggs yet, so obviously she was leaving me feedback for eggs she bought from someone else. I sent her a message telling her this, again got no reply. Finally got the eggs collected and shipped out yesterday and thought that would be the end of it.

Nope. Today she opened an unreceived item case against me. For the eggs I just sent yesterday. That she had tracking info for and could clearly see that they were sent yesterday. Also included was a message that said "havent received , eggs probaly arent good anymore". That was the whole message. So I responded, again telling her what was going on, that they were shipped yesterday, they were fresh, and they will probably arrive tomorrow. Then I included the tracking number in the case for good measure, in case she decides to try to escalate it to eBay support. So now, even though I've done everything right and the whole thing was caused by her not paying on time, I now have to sit and wait and see if she's going to open a case against me.

Oh, and the second buyer still hasn't paid. If they haven't paid by Tuesday I can close the case against them and be fine, but they have until then to pay, thanks to eBay making you wait at least four days after the first two days you have to wait before you can even open the case. If they pay, I have to send eggs. After already having to throw out the first ones I had set aside.

Phew. Feels good to get that off my chest.

I'm so sorry! That person was plain rude.