The Quack Shack

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Believe me, it's a full-time job!

I do believe you! - Its my third full time job:

1. My regular job, 40h/week (in Theory!)
2. My Farm/Garden
3. The little rescues, Sunny Sunshine and Harry Duckhini

Its been claimed that broody- are large and smell horrific.
Confirmed! Sunny did it on the patio and every insect trapped there became an instant meal… 🕷

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I can't imagine. With 4 in the house at the same time I was constantly changing puppy pads to keep the smell down. Our Trash company had to be sooooo happy when I was able to move them all outside. The Trash barrel weighed a ton from all of the puppy pads. I would be broke buying that many pads or shavings for that amount of birds.

I started with puppy pads for the rescues, but switched to large door-mats, as you can see on the picture below:

The amount of is the same, but i can fold the mat in the middle, carry it outside and hose it down. One hour on my garage roof and its dry again. I have about ten of them, there once was a good offer at Ollie's…

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

I have been distracted by emus and ostrich chicks, haha. Also dealing with rebuilding my flock after the dog attack - not sure if I shared about that in here - but I have guinea keets AND chicks arriving this week. Not sure how I managed to accidentally schedule them for the same week, but that ought to keep me busy, haha.

Ostrich chicks?? Are you expanding?

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

[Turning on the Australian accent] - And this is wot loife with dux looks loike:

Less O more Aye needed. Also, less spaces between words. Should all flow into one giant word

 

[Luv Ducks]

I started with puppy pads for the rescues, but switched to large door-mats, as you can see on the picture below:

The amount of is the same, but i can fold the mat in the middle, carry it outside and hose it down. One hour on my garage roof and its dry again. I have about ten of them, there once was a good offer at Ollie's…

How do you get them to stay on the door mat??? It's a great idea though.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

How do you get them to stay on the door mat??? It's a great idea though.

They don't! - But when they lay down, they prefer the mat over the hardwood floor. And i have a wet-vacuum from Bissel that i use to suck it up, should it end up on the hardwood.

 

[Pyxis]

Ostrich chicks?? Are you expanding?

I have a friend up here that I met through the emus, and he keeps ostriches. Now he has money money, so he can heat them through the winter with no problems, which is the reason I won't keep them - they have to be fully heated through winter here.

But, his birds started laying and he didn't have his incubators ready. And the eggs incubate at the same temperature as emus, and I thought, why not hatch some ostriches? So I did, haha. They went back to him a couple days ago. But they are such neat babies, very curious and friendly.

And big. This was when this one was a day old and just fluffed up:

 

[Miss Lydia]

I have a friend up here that I met through the emus, and he keeps ostriches. Now he has money money, so he can heat them through the winter with no problems, which is the reason I won't keep them - they have to be fully heated through winter here.

But, his birds started laying and he didn't have his incubators ready. And the eggs incubate at the same temperature as emus, and I thought, why not hatch some ostriches? So I did, haha. They went back to him a couple days ago. But they are such neat babies, very curious and friendly.

And big. This was when this one was a day old and just fluffed up:

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What a cutie

 

[Jenbirdee]

Too hot and humid here for me to transfer more ducklings outside, so I currently have over 30 of various ages inside. And over 20 chicks that also need to go out.

Plus, the goslings still spend their nights inside until it cools down enough for me to make them their own house.

that’s so crazy that it’s that hot and you are in canada
it’s hot here too but my 6 week olds are doing great in the shade with a pool all day . my 6 day olds are of course still inside . i wonder if the world is upside down this week and canada is hotter than maryland now . we have mid 90’s with humidity ( random t storms on the way)

 

[Jenbirdee]

ever since i added a black duck to the flock, my crows ( i have been feeding for 3 years) have gotten much much closer . they hang out very close to me and the ducks now. and we have seen very few hawks .