The Quack Shack

[rjohns39]

Good morning / evening folks

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Your duck laid a mushroom!!!

Yep black Swedish that hasn't laid in a while.

It seems to be the first eggs from the Black Swedish ducks! - I go another one yesterday (Friday) and today! - Cool!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Looks like they been making mud pies in their pool. Mine can make pools ,buckets and anything else holding water look like mud pie heaven.

Dux are highly allergic to clean water! - Mine have turned a crystal clear pond into a loamy red soup. Here's Mr. Limpy, bobbing in that soup with his girlfriend:

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

And here is the video of Mr. Limpy and his girlfriend - no spoiler necessary, the ducklings are already - hmm - made?

He is carefully guarding her on the pond. - Later there are some Mallards flying overhead, they waited until i left my seat at the pond before dive-landing.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I got (too) busy today, First i duck up the potato patch and when i sat down to take a short break, the dux-assistants took over, carefully tilled the soi8l and fertilized:

This is what the potato patch looked like in the end - i have never had such a neat potato patch:

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Then i put my new chainsaw to good use! - The linemen cut a lot of trees down under the power-line and today i started to harvest some of the wood, first result was a new red-oak fence post:

Cutting it to size was easy, the saw did all the work, but dragging it from the bottom of my property up to the veggie garden would have been an easy job for a tractor, which i don't have. So it became a job tor the ol' donkey. (me…)

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Then i cut some more pieces of wood to use in the garden:

Not sure what exactly i will build from this, but there is always use for a good piece of strong wood in a garden. All the scrap-wood, twigs and crooked branches ended up in a scrapwood-pile at the egde of the cliff:

Why here? You may ask. - Simple, that pile of wood will slow down runoff-water, preserving the cliff from eroding too fast. Btw. that ugly concrete bridge is the bridge over my creek. You can also see my mailbox…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

And finally i cut down that pine-tree that cracked in spring of 2021:

Btw: That red structure up the hill is the duck-house, that is ½ way up to the veggie garden…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

All this with one 40Ah Lithium Battery within one hour. After that both batteries, the one in the saw and mine were empty… - I love my new chain-saw:

Yes, i know nit a "Stihl", but i already have a lot of battery-powered tools for the 18V system, and the saw was on sale…

 

[ruthhope]

Morning all. Does anyone in here live in town with their ducks?

@Muscovy Wunda I live in town but I only have 4 [3 muscovy and a pekin] in my flock along with a variable number of rescues being rehabbed for rehoming. It's against local zoning restrictions, so I am living below the radar of the authorities, with good neighbors who like and visit my ducks and would not dream of reporting me. My son has 3 ducks similarly under the radar even closer to downtown. One of his is a very noisy little girl but he too has great neighbors -- several of whom have backyard chickens and roosters, that are also not permitted by local ordinance. So they all keep their heads down and mind their own business