The Quack Shack

[Luv Ducks]

I just had an April fools' surprise... While the ducks were away in the outside part of the orchard, a jackdaw came in and instead of just pecking at the food, it went straight into a kiddie pool and started bathing! Pranking me and the ducks.

I wonder when the ducks come back, will it be like Goldilocks and the bears -- "someone's been bathing in our pool..."

May I ask what is a Jackdaw? I have never heard of one before???

 

[Supercow]

May I ask what is a Jackdaw? I have never heard of one before???

Well I hope I got that right. I did a Slovenian -> Latin -> English name search which usually turns out well.

Kavka -> Corvus monedula -> Western jackdaw.

 

[Miss Lydia]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackdaw

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

"Our experiment was a success. We discovered that the music stimulated eggs were the first to hatch and had the highest hatch rate of 74%. The eggs stimulated with a recording of chickens clucking hatched second and had a hatch rate of 70%. Our control incubator with no stimulation only resulted in a 27% hatch rate."

https://csef.usc.edu/History/2011/Projects/J2205.pdf

(I was wondering about that because my room seems to be the most practical one to place the incubator in - and I usually have some music playing ... Aha - https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/playing-music-for-incubating-eggs.1481590/ )

The duxlings i hatched out last year were listening into a lot of my job-related conference calls, but they did not became IT-eggsperts.
However: Listening to mostly my voice made them very familiar with me and they snuggled with me right after they hatched.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

May I ask what is a Jackdaw? I have never heard of one before???

It is a relative of the crows and ravens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackdaw

 

[Supercow]

May I ask what is a Jackdaw? I have never heard of one before???

@Luv Ducks I'm sorry, I was worried if i used the correct name but I didn't answer your question. It's a bird, of the crow family (although there are different biological classifications).

Crows are smart and they know our place well - they usually hang around collecting walnuts and have a truce with the ducks. I expect a pool party tomorrow.

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/jackdaw-bird-just-loves-people-178185

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

@Luv Ducks I'm sorry, I was worried if i used the correct name but I didn't answer your question. It's a bird, of the crow family (although there are different biological classifications).

Crows are smart and they know our place well - they usually hang around collecting walnuts and have a truce with the ducks. I expect a pool party tomorrow.

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/jackdaw-bird-just-loves-people-178185

The crowd have been swimming with my ducks the last twoweeks. All in the pool together.

 

[p4PaDuck]

Who doesn't want to join the wild Turkeys and live a free life out in the woods, free of the burden of egg-laying and tick-eating…

So, are Guikens a real thing? Did yours survive? and how did thei look like? Any pictures?

Lol! they were all chill then out of the sudden, they started screaming at the wild turkeys they were just bullying, and ran off with them like they had been friends since they hatched!

I had three guickens, I believe it was a rooster and a guinea hen cross? maybe vice versa, anyways only two hatched, and one died of an unknown cause, the other looks like a pearl guinea, with leakage and the wattles are softer. White house on the hill has some guickens, over all looks almost exactly like a guinea. Think the video was called "Meet the guicken! how did this happen?" One did survive to adulthood and lived to be around 6 years old before she died of age.

Also no pictures.

 

[Luv Ducks]

@Luv Ducks I'm sorry, I was worried if i used the correct name but I didn't answer your question. It's a bird, of the crow family (although there are different biological classifications).

Crows are smart and they know our place well - they usually hang around collecting walnuts and have a truce with the ducks. I expect a pool party tomorrow.

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/jackdaw-bird-just-loves-people-178185

Thank you, I did look it up and saw that it was related to the crow and raven family. I appreciated you letting me know though, thanks again.

 

[p4PaDuck]

The duxlings i hatched out last year were listening into a lot of my job-related conference calls, but they did not became IT-eggsperts.
However: Listening to mostly my voice made them very familiar with me and they snuggled with me right after they hatched.

Yup that’s how mine are eggcept they listen to other “aliens” on the other end of the big glass portal (laptop).And they love to be loud when I’m trying to listen, they’re still sweeties tho! Makes sitting listening to other people so much better when you have a duck with you!