The Quack Shack

[WannaBeHillBilly]

No cobolds here I think ... could have missed it (eyes not so young anymore)
Nice legible text description here - https://www.huehner-shop.com/Huehner-Legekorn-Gefluegel-Legefutter

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No Cobolds listed, which doesn't mean that there are non in the bag. My primary suspects are the Soja (Soybean) and the Bierhefe (brewers-yeast). Cobolds like to hide in there.
Remarkable for this food is that they have added Paprikaextrakt (Pepper-extract), that should make the feed taste hot, preventing it to be eaten by rodents and mammals. Last year i used all those hot-sauce packages from Caca-Bell (ridiculed company name, i assume you can guess who's meant) to prepare some hot cracked-corn. The dux loved the stuff but the i watched a family of raccoons during the night trying it out…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Oh yeah. These cayugas sound like their back ends are blowing out sometimes. Especially when it's rained and they have found a lot of earthworms to eat.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust and - for the dux - mud to mud…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

We had a Thunderstorm here on 12/09 which made the dux leave their beloved pond and ran to the humon's house for cover:

Where can i order more of those? - The dux still refuse to go into their house in the evening…

 

[Luv Ducks]

We had a Thunderstorm here on 12/09 which made the dux leave their beloved pond and ran to the humon's house for cover:

Where can i order more of those? - The dux still refuse to go into their house in the evening…

You might try Amazon Frank, I think they are called, Mother Nature's Thunderstorms, LOL Good luck with that.

 

[Supercow]

Somehow it feels like somebody has stolen ½ of this year from me...

Even apart from the darkness part... This year feels super short, it has barely begun and it's gone. It could be an age thing, it could be all the ... non-boring... events that took place, I don't know. I would really prefer a slower pace, that's why we moved to the country and stopped (intellectual) work-stress. Here's an early "many happy returns" for everybody.

 

[Supercow]

No Cobolds listed, which doesn't mean that there are non in the bag. My primary suspects are the Soja (Soybean) and the Bierhefe (brewers-yeast). Cobolds like to hide in there.
Remarkable for this food is that they have added Paprikaextrakt (Pepper-extract), that should make the feed taste hot, preventing it to be eaten by rodents and mammals. Last year i used all those hot-sauce packages from Caca-Bell (ridiculed company name, i assume you can guess who's meant) to prepare some hot cracked-corn. The dux loved the stuff but the i watched a family of raccoons during the night trying it out…

That's true, soybeans are a good candidate for harboring cobolds. I was just surprised to see them added explicitly as a single molecule on your label.

About the capsicin - it doesn't seem to work that much ... We've had a hedgehog and a mouse around every night picking up leftovers from the places where the ducks' feeding stations are over the day.

Or maybe they are just a special hedgehog and a special mouse, the only ones in the entire local population that can deal with the spicy stuff

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

You might try Amazon Frank, I think they are called, Mother Nature's Thunderstorms, LOL Good luck with that.

I seem to be out of luck! So short before Christmas MNTs are on short supply.
Neither the river, nor the bay have them in stock right now. It is -6° (23F) outside right now and the dux were really unimpressed of that thunderstorm-DVD i bought for them...

While watching this, they quacked for some pop-corn...

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Even apart from the darkness part... This year feels super short, it has barely begun and it's gone. It could be an age thing, it could be all the ... non-boring... events that took place, I don't know. I would really prefer a slower pace, that's why we moved to the country and stopped (intellectual) work-stress. Here's an early "many happy returns" for everybody.

I know who stole my summer: Eleven of them rasp and three quack…

Anyways, i managed to attach the carpenter's vice to my workbench yesterday

I know it sits too low to use the pin, but it'll do for now.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

That's true, soybeans are a good candidate for harboring cobolds. I was just surprised to see them added explicitly as a single molecule on your label.

About the capsicin - it doesn't seem to work that much ... We've had a hedgehog and a mouse around every night picking up leftovers from the places where the ducks' feeding stations are over the day.

Or maybe they are just a special hedgehog and a special mouse, the only ones in the entire local population that can deal with the spicy stuff

There might not be enough hot-stuff in the food to deter hedgehogs and mice. At least some of us love to eat hot-food too. - For some unexplainable reasons we got flooded with hot-sauce from questionable feed-sources last year and i turned some of the cracked yellow corn into steaming-hot red-corn that made my eyes tear up. When those 'coons tried to eat it, they squeaked in surprise and ran to the water-bowl…
Hot stuff is really good for birds, the capsaicin is very effective against any parasites in their digestive tract, that's why i am growing hot peppers for the dux.

 

[Luv Ducks]

I know who stole my summer: Eleven of them rasp and three quack…

Anyways, i managed to attach the carpenter's vice to my workbench yesterday

I know it sits too low to use the pin, but it'll do for now.

What will you do with that many drakes Frank? Your luck sounds about like mine only I think you got more quacks out of the deal. Out of about 30 I either hatched or let hatch out over the past 3 years I got 3 Hens. That's one Hen in every batch of 10.