The Quack Shack

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Testing the new site feature of videos.

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• Canadian Wind
• Jun 20, 2023

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What do you mean by »new site feature of videos«?

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

And that's what the internet (and @casportpony ) are for!

Where can i buy some additional hours? - Two customers at the same time, a garden, two veggie beds, two raised beds and the plastic-bag growing thingy…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Gosling! I am still not on the approved visitor's list so I have to snipe pictures of the baby through fencing, LOL. She's growing well, though!

Sweet gosling, surrounded by dinosaurs!
Is that a crest on the heads of the two grown-ups?

 

[Pyxis]

Sweet gosling, surrounded by dinosaurs!
Is that a crest on the heads of the two grown-ups?

Tufts They're all Tufted Romans, only the one in the middle there with basically no tuft is one I got from a hatchery when I was first starting out with geese, and then the one on the other side of the fence with only just a little tuft is her daughter.

The other two, one is that group's gander that has a correct tuft, and a female with a correct tuft.

 

[Supercow]

Laying ducks prefer protein for a good reason: Do the math. Let's say you have a 3Kg duck
- which is a really heavy duck! She lays one egg per day and the egg weighs 60 grams, which is average, but a heavy duck would more likely lay eggs between 80 and 100 grams, but anyways… 60 ÷ 2000 = 0.03 = 3% That means your duck is loosing 3% of her body weight every day in mostly protein. Let's say your weight is 100Kg (just an example, no offense intended!!!) - you would have to cut 3Kg off your body every day. And not belly-fat, no, muscle tissue, protein…
On top of that you must pull out the bone from one of your fingers to extract enough Calcium to wrap that protein with a hard Calcium-Carbonate shell.

Just to put in perspective what our ducks accomplish almost every day.

First things first, my weight really is close to 100 kg so no offense taken nor appropriate

Your reasoning makes sense, a duck's body does a lot of work daily and needs lots of input for that.

As I work mostly with code and numbers my "something doesn't work out" detector triggered though at the calculation of protein needed daily.

Think about protein content of complete layer feed - it's typically around 16%, and the normal daily consumption is around 150 g. That works out to 24 g of protein. So what's "the norm" would actually be a severe lack of protein compared to the egg calculation.

The thing is that an egg is not close to entirely protein; there's a lot of water. Most of the weight is water. An egg's protein content is, if I understand correctly, around 15%.

This is very close to the layer feed percentage. We could roughly say that when a ducks eats 150 g of feed, half of that is spent on the daily egg and the other half is for the duck's "private purposes" which definitely exist as the body is regenerated constantly.

But your point stands: a duck does a LOT of work to produce eggs. Hats off to our ducks. And if it's to happen every day, it also requires a LOT of proper food.

Speaking of which, it is now close to 7:30 and the ducks which have been quacking for the last hour to be let out of the coop have fallen silent... from my very limited experience this possibly means there's another egg. Or it's another thing completely. Let's go and find out.

 

[Canadian Wind]

What do you mean by »new site feature of videos«?

From what I recently heard (and tested) videos can now be uploaded to our personal gallery and used in messages. As I did there.

So I don't have to sell my soul to YouTube.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

You guys have been busy chatting. 10 pages

 

[Luv Ducks]

What do you mean by »new site feature of videos«?

Beautiful video!!!

 

[Luv Ducks]

You guys have been busy chatting. 10 pages

I always got "Talks Too Much" Checked on my Grade card when I was in school. LOL

 

[Luv Ducks]

We have started to communicate: I say Mr. PeaDuck here is something to eat for you, after i locked up the ducks and he comes and eats.

I know nothing about how to care for pea-fowl and what they need, especially during the cold season.

I would google that as I am the Google Queen, lol. I know on my bus route I would surely see the one out in the cold weather and it seemed to be just fine. It looked just like yours. It surely is a beautiful bird and I am glad you took it in. It seems to fit nicely with your flock.