The Quack Shack

[Magnolia Ducks]

What are cow cubes?

Food for the cows, like duck pellets only bigger. They are not cubes, like their name, but look like extruded from a pipe. Round cylinders of feet about 3 inches long.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

I thiught you were talking about frozen cow pats.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Good morning Hillbilly, have a great day... We just got up to 60f Snow is melting quickly.

Yeah, snow melt.… we still have plenty of that on the ground and rain is in the overnight and tomorrow's forecast. Here that is a recipe for flash-flooding. I love that the weather is warming up, but from a -10° night to a +10° day (14F to 50F) is kind of hash too.
My head is about to explode and even the ducks behave strange today, some are just standing around in the middle of the yard, staring at something and don't move a single feather, while some drakes are fighting each other so violent that mud is splashed around everywhere.
But it looks like the duckies make a long term weather forecast again, they predict that:

Winter is over here in Big Chimney!​

How have i noticed their prediction? - There's feather flying around e.very.where! And it is not the feathers that the drakes rip out of each other's. Pompom Duck just performed some Duck Yoga and when she was flapping her wings a lot of downs flew around.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Food for the cows, like duck pellets only bigger. They are not cubes, like their name, but look like extruded from a pipe. Round cylinders of feet about 3 inches long.

Oh, ok! - So the correct size for Blanca and Earthquack Duck!
Do they contain a lot of protein or is that just something like extruded hay?

I caught Blanca and Earthquack three times in the run today, gulping down so many of their pellets that both were choking! I think they have a contest going on…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I thiught you were talking about frozen cow pats.

I had the very same thought!
The cow-turds are sometimes called "cow cookies" or "cow flats" (like in flat-bread) in Germany, so why not cow-cubes? - Especially when Wombats actually poop cubes:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/how-do-wombats-poop-cubes-scientists-get-bottom-mystery#:~:text=Humans may be fascinated by,intestine creates this exceptional excrement.
Have you ever seen wombat poop-cubes, @Muscovy Wunda ?

Edit: Reading the very last sentence of the article, linked above, while having your mouth full of something to drink is a recipe for disaster…

 

[duluthralphie]

I had the very same thought!
The cow-turds are sometimes called "cow cookies" or "cow flats" (like in flat-bread) in Germany, so why not cow-cubes? - Especially when Wombats actually poop cubes:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/how-do-wombats-poop-cubes-scientists-get-bottom-mystery#:~:text=Humans may be fascinated by,intestine creates this exceptional excrement.
Have you ever seen wombat poop-cubes, @Muscovy Wunda ?

Edit: Reading the very last sentence of the article, linked above, while having your mouth full of something to drink is a recipe for disaster…

I bet we could paint dots on them and sell them as dice to treehuggers !

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

I had the very same thought!
The cow-turds are sometimes called "cow cookies" or "cow flats" (like in flat-bread) in Germany, so why not cow-cubes? - Especially when Wombats actually poop cubes:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/how-do-wombats-poop-cubes-scientists-get-bottom-mystery#:~:text=Humans may be fascinated by,intestine creates this exceptional excrement.
Have you ever seen wombat poop-cubes, @Muscovy Wunda ?

Edit: Reading the very last sentence of the article, linked above, while having your mouth full of something to drink is a recipe for disaster…

I haven't but have heard that. I've only ever seen one live wombat, and that was in a zoo. My home town had one strip of road about 5km from the zoo where they roamed, and often wrote off cars. Think of it like hitting a moose, but the moose going underneath the car instead of over

 

[duluthralphie]

I haven't but have heard that. I've only ever seen one live wombat, and that was in a zoo. My home town had one strip of road about 5km from the zoo where they roamed, and often wrote off cars. Think of it like hitting a moose, but the moose going underneath the car instead of over

Just like hitting a moose if the wombat weighed 1000kg.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Just like hitting a moose if the wombat weighed 1000kg.

Wombats are that heavy?!? - How large are those Wombat cubes then? 20lbs?

 

[duluthralphie]

Wombats are that heavy?!? - How large are those Wombat cubes then? 20lbs?

Wombats according to the all knowing Wiki are around 35kg.