The Quack Shack

[Miss Lydia]

Good Thursday Morning and Evening Everyone!

 

[Canadian Wind]

Salutations my fowl friends!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Happy Pre-Friday to Everyone!​

Despite all the cold air being sent to us by those Canadians, one lonely strawberry managed to ripen:

Now i have to make the difficult decision what to do with it:

• Sunday-Topping
• Milk-Shake
• Mix it with some rhubarb and cook jam jam
• Strawberry cake

Always those difficult decisions…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Buffzilla is still sitting on her nest-burg:

And i still have no clue how many eggs she has collected under her. The daily egg count is down by 2-3, so if she has gathered just 1½ eggs per day, she might sit on 20 eggs.
I need to count and candle them, but when she only leaves the nest during the night when the duck-house is locked up…

 

[Canadian Wind]

Happy Pre-Friday to Everyone!​

Despite all the cold air being sent to us by those Canadians, one lonely strawberry managed to ripen:

Now i have to make the difficult decision what to do with it:

• Sunday-Topping
• Milk-Shake
• Mix it with some rhubarb and cook jam jam
• Strawberry cake

Always those difficult decisions…

That's going to be a very small treat!

My suggestion? Just eat it.

As for us sending you cold, we're not getting heat in exchange!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

That's going to be a very small treat!

My suggestion? Just eat it.

I did just that and the taste was a bit tart, as usual for the first berries…

As for us sending you cold, we're not getting heat in exchange!

The warm air is on its way, i stood on top of my hill yesterday and blew to the northywest as strong as i could. The warm air should be right behind the cold air that I've blown back.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Just fished this out of my mailbox:

Bought it on that new Chinese web-site that is clogging your mail-boxes and browsers with ads currently. They have some unique stuff for reasonable prices, but most cheap stuff is just that…

 

[Supercow]

Ah, @WannaBeHillBilly , we also got our first strawberry today, it's a glorious day

Also a nice surprise by the ducks: I've noticed that when I'm doing something and am a bit late in coming to guide them into their house, they would move toward it on their own when it gets dark enough...

... and today they were waiting on the very entrance, sitting on the ramp; they saw me coming, said their quacks and went in. A great victory for ducks and humans.

They are now 4 months old. I'm considering whether it's time to get started with the calcium boost so that by the time eggs arrive in a month or so (fingers crossed) their bodies are fully prepared.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Put out oyster shell close to where they eat and they’ll use it as they need it.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

@Supercow agree with Miss Lydia. Dux are alot less likely to need calcium than chickens, and too much calcium can lead to health issues (brought a drake that had only ever eaten layer pellets and he could not walk, stored it all in his legs). Ducks are sponges, they absorb everything even if they don't need it. Extra calcium may also require a chainsaw to crack eggs... I learnt this with my very first muscovies.