The Quack Shack

[Tooshay89]

Wake up girl! Quarantine getting to you? Runners are my favorite by far, but this...

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...I don't know. That's some wonderful beauty to have walking around.

Why do you have to do this to me?? Now I want welshes again...

 

[Tooshay89]

Apollo's got his monkey mask!!!! I remember Biscuits' mask. View attachment 2086770And while we are on subject of cute.... this little jellybean is ear marked to join us mid May.View attachment 2086784

Oh my gosssshh!! What a teeny tiny cutie pie. Don't you just want to snuggle him?

I love those little masks on the GPs. Biscuit's is so cute!! I didn't realize they got them until his came in!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Moved Red back to the bachelor pen tonight. He has some sort of leg injury so hoping this will help it heal.

And I hope everyone had a good Easter if they celebrate it. Here is some cuteness for everyone.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Heres some quackiness for your Mondays! I know someone was asking the other day about pekins and runners together. Hopefully you can see the size difference, they are hatch buddies. Mine are only successful because they free range during the day. The pekins are a bit of a bully if everyones locked up all day so we will be seperating them once we move next weekish. Unfortunately not allowed to free range at the new place but those portable poultry fences are an option if anyone has any feedback on them

 

[Trimurtisan]

Good morning y'all.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning folks

Heres some quackiness for your Mondays! I know someone was asking the other day about pekins and runners together. Hopefully you can see the size difference, they are hatch buddies. Mine are only successful because they free range during the day. The pekins are a bit of a bully if everyones locked up all day so we will be seperating them once we move next weekish. Unfortunately not allowed to free range at the new place but those portable poultry fences are an option if anyone has any feedback on themView attachment 2087363

Good evening Wunda, hope you've had a great monday

Good morning y'all.

Good morning Chris, have a great day

 

[Trimurtisan]

Well I ended up not winning the auction. In the last 30 minutes there was a bidding war that took it to triple my original bid before I dropped out.

 

[Trimurtisan]

Semper Fi big guy​

I got to roll in the dirt with a Marine yesterday, and this is how it happened.

I was driving down a large 50 mph boulevard yesterday when I saw a truck on the opposite side parked in the traffic lane with flashers on. Walking through the median was this 6'4" granite chiseled Zeus lookin fella. Then I saw what this guy was doing. He was saving a mother Mallard and her babies. I turned around, and jumped out of the car to help. (yes I put it in park first )

The mother looked like she had been hit by a car already. Her right leg didn't look good and she had no use of it. It looked like maybe her hip (do ducks have hips?) was broken and was kind of folded in under her, dragging her foot.

Zues was on the phone with the Sheriff's department trying to reach the wildlife department, but nobody was answering. He was on one side of the median and I was on the other trying to bring attention to the family to incoming drivers.

At one point a F350 pulled up and stopped. Both window on the driver side came down and there was 4 guys, mid 20's maybe. They had the look like they where ready for an interaction with Zues, just had that hyena look in her eyes. Juice simply explained he was just trying to get their attention for the duck, but these guys were being a bit antagonistic. For a second time, Zeus reiterated he's just trying to save the Ducks, and the driver had a smart comment to say. I swear and less time than it takes a gnat to fart, this fella stood straight up, bowed his chest and barked a comment I can't post here. All 4 hyenas literally shriveled in their seats and drove away.

This big red blooded rump kicking machine of a man was so concerned about these small animals. It had a sense of poetic beauty all on its own. I told him I raised poultry and could help them. After the 3 time not reaching the wildlife department, we decided to catch them. Mom was not very mobile so we where going to come in from the sides, and coral her to the point we could basically bum rush her. The median and was only about 15 ft wide, so we didn't have a whole lot of room use. We slowly got to about 5' on either side of her, and she just took flight. Apparently, there was absolutely nothing wing with her wings.

Zues and I are now scurrying around trying to get the 2 tiny and very fast ducklings... We where running and lunging ourselves like professional volley ball players. Literally rolling around in the grass to stop this extremely cunning little things. Pro football players could learn a thing or two from catching wild ducklings.

After we caught them, we drive across the street to try and find momma. There was a thick patch of trees that she flew towards, but when were got there, it was more like dense woods with a lake we couldn't see from the road. We accident about 30 minutes looking for her, but we didn't have any success.

So I now have 2 Mallard ducklings. I know you have to have a permit in Fl to have them, so I'll be reaching out to some rescue to see who can take them in. I've toyed with the idea of raising them in hopes they'd just fly away when migration time comes around, but I don't really know how to raise a wild duck to still be wild, and think I'd actually just impede on its success. It's a morals vs law vs capability issue...

Anywho, here they are. They're young.

 

[jaykayhuff]

I could probably order WH ducklings in late May or June, but that seems risky since it's so darn hot here. And after the bad luck @jaykayhuff has had with her shipped ducklings, I'm nervous to have any shipped in. Maybe I'll love runners so much I won't want any welshes!

I might as well be the poster child for duckling shipping gone wrong but my two little Welsh girls sure are adorable and spunky... oh and still alive!!! Ha

 

[jaykayhuff]

@jaykayhuff how are your ducklings doing?

I’m down to 6. The one that is having muscle spasms and tremors is still trying to fight it. Attempting to eat and drink but not sure if she will pull through. The other 5 are not showing any symptoms though so