The Quack Shack

[Canadian Wind]

Woodpeckers the size of crows! - I would be worried about my wooden patio, the work-platform and the duck-house…

My wooden head...

 

[Canadian Wind]

Then i dug out a larger Tulip-Tree and a small Staghorn-Sumach and planted them into containers. Maybe i can sell them in spring, anybody interested in a Tulip-tree? Good source of Nectar for bees...

Staghorn sumac is one of my favourite trees. We have a lot of them around here. I love how tropical they look, and their bright red colour in the autumn!

 

[Miss Lydia]

We have them too and the woodpeckers love those seed heads.

Staghorn sumac is one of my favourite trees. We have a lot of them around here. I love how tropical they look, and their bright red colour in the autumn!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Staghorn sumac is one of my favourite trees. We have a lot of them around here. I love how tropical they look, and their bright red colour in the autumn!

I love these trees too, they grow really fast, even on the poorest of soils, prevent slides with their strong root system and the wood has a beautiful grain.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

We have them too and the woodpeckers love those seed heads.

Those seed heads dried, are a good fuel for a bee-smoker.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Those seed heads dried, are a good fuel for a bee-smoker.

You can also make a very tasty 'lemonade' out of them!

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Is your crested duck a distant relative from the screech ducks we both bought at that hatchery in Texas? - Their breeding stock is flawed! - In 2019 i had ordered Buff Orpington ducks, since then only Violeta duck and Erpelchen Drake have survived, so this year i ordered three Buffies from Metzer Farms… Guess what, those three ducks are larger than the drake that came from Texas. Both Violeta and Erpelchen look fragile, compared with them. And my two Magpies (Pompom and Pinball) also look fragile and small.
I do hope your duck makes it!

She's from ideal stock on her mothers side and they tend to be small but terrific layers. Her father is half ideal and half Metzer Saxony I was trying to get some size in cause the ideal stock are very small. But she's seven generations in and the first time I've gotten a crested from these hens. I've been tube feeding her the last two days and she seems better. She hasn't been upside down today. The Ideal screeches didn't live long enough for eggs. The trash pandas got them before I had a drake.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Happy new year

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Happy New Year to Everybody!​

So this is 2023! - Looks very much like 2022, the ducks are out in their run eating, drinking and pooping. Violeta and Pompom Duck are yelling at Misty Duck, Mr LeRoy Brown is acting as »Lord of the Wings« and it is still raining out here. Just the least significant digit has been upgraded…

 

[Miss Lydia]

Happy New Year Peeps!!