The Quack Shack

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Having someone or something to take care of when your own path seems to be suddenly lost is a lifesaver.

Very true! - Whenever i am outside, doing something there is always a group of ducks looking out for me. They feel that something's different.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Umm... anyone elses duck lay rotten, dino shaped eggs? This is not first, though this is the first that I have candled, others I boiled, cut open and they were brownView attachment 3967660

Yes, that happens sometimes. Do your birds have enough Calcium to gobble down? - The other opportunity when they lay weird eggs is during a molt.- And of course if something scared the eggs out of them, like a predator attack.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I cracked it, besides smelling extra eggy, doesn'tseem off? All the bubbles came out. Odd.View attachment 3967661

Bubbly eggs, i had those a couple of time. They're good for baking and/or scrambled eggs.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Imagine a dumb, stumbling around the house in the dark, while it is raining ducks and geese, mixed in with snow and graupel, loading potted pepper plants on a garden cart and pulling them to the safety of a garage.
Me on Tuesday evening before the first overnight frost- Operation Capsicum Rescue…
Felt like a wreck for the last two days, but hey my peppers survived. Some of them are still in the garage:

And some of them will serve as houseplants, currently beautifying my living-room:

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Yes, that happens sometimes. Do your birds have enough Calcium to gobble down? - The other opportunity when they lay weird eggs is during a molt.- And of course if something scared the eggs out of them, like a predator attack.

They do get lots of calcium, maybe coming to molt soon? Maybe the old hen?

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Imagine a dumb, stumbling around the house in the dark, while it is raining ducks and geese, mixed in with snow and graupel, loading potted pepper plants on a garden cart and pulling them to the safety of a garage.
Me on Tuesday evening before the first overnight frost- Operation Capsicum Rescue…
Felt like a wreck for the last two days, but hey my peppers survived. Some of them are still in the garage:

And some of them will serve as houseplants, currently beautifying my living-room:

Frost already??

 

[Canadian Wind]

Frost already??

We got our first frost a couple of days ago. Lots of annual plants are gone from it.

Harvested the late potatoes I'd planted in August. Not a bad result, lots of tasty small potatoes and a few larger ones too.

 

[Supercow]

We're also being told that the first freeze is just around the corner but it hasn't happened yet. Start of November is not at all unusual; some years there is a quick one in the first days of October just to mess with everybody's autumn bean harvest.

The season was a little unusual at first (April and June traded places temperature-wise). In the end, a very good crop of potatos and tomatos, a great one of apples, very poor winter squash (only a few and on the small side), garlic sadly overgrown and miniature because of humans occupied by other problems... That's why we grow EVERYTHING, something's bound to come out a winner every year

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Frost already??

Yes, currently the over-night temperatures are close to the freezing mark and the day-time heights are up to 25° (77F). Its that crazy time of the year again.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

We got our first frost a couple of days ago. Lots of annual plants are gone from it.

Harvested the late potatoes I'd planted in August. Not a bad result, lots of tasty small potatoes and a few larger ones too.

I still need to harvest my potato patch. After the potatoes died off in July, the duck sown tomato plants took over and i let them grow in order to have at least some harvest.