Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[QuackerJackFarms]

HEY, DUCKGIRL?!

 

[JulieNKC]

QJ- Calls can fly very well from what I've heard. I don't like clipping wings, think it makes them sitting ducks for predators, so I need to get them a covered pen built. Do your mallards ever fly?

 

[Wulfandwyn]

True it sounds like a piece of cake if you don't have any kids or you don't know anyone with kids. I can just imagine how much work it is considering how much work a husband and some animals are

Well.... I'm a stay at home mom, so I get NO sick leave, NO vacation and NO pay! And all while people are saying to my face, "You're so lucky. You don't have to work."... Really?

That is all. (Stepping down off the box... annnndddd I'm off the box.)

Carry on.

 

[country_girl011]

I forget the name. Let me look again. They were chocolates. Ever heard of those?

yes.
i think i know the one you are talking about.
i think chocolates would be pretty .
speaking of ive been talking to this lady about her calls. let me catch up with what has happened on the thread and i will post a pic of one of the ducks she has for sale =)

 

[JulieNKC]

LOL. Yes, may he rest in peace, poor bugger. He did a lot of wildlife conservation work here.


I think you should take up use of the term 'fortnight'. Yes, it means, 'two weeks', as in "Feed the crocs every fornight", or "My next croc hunting trip is in a fortnight". If you say "Tuesday fornight" you mean the Tuesday in two week's time.

I intend to. I also plan on working "crikey" into my everyday conversation, lol. In honor of Steve Irwin. I loved him. When me and my sisters were younger and would get drug to the lake to go camping we'd go "croc hunting" and look for snakes and lizards and stuff, lol. I almost named my alligator Steve, but found out she was a girl.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

QJ- Calls can fly very well from what I've heard. I don't like clipping wings, think it makes them sitting ducks for predators, so I need to get them a covered pen built. Do your mallards ever fly?

Yes they fly, but they don't WANT to fly away. Does that make sense? They fly from their coop to their feed... Oh... about 100 ft or so, and then they're done. Beaker and Bunsen are just now doing this.

But Edward would fly over the house, circle it a few times and come back into the yard. I did clip the 2 big girls wings, but not Edward and that kept him from flying.

ETA: If they wanted to fly away they could.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

I intend to. I also plan on working "crikey" into my everyday conversation, lol. In honor of Steve Irwin. I loved him. When me and my sisters were younger and would get drug to the lake to go camping we'd go "croc hunting" and look for snakes and lizards and stuff, lol. I almost named my alligator Steve, but found out she was a girl.

You had a pet alligator?! Crikey! Did you feed him once a fortnight?

(How was that for use of vocab.)

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

yes.
i think i know the one you are talking about.
i think chocolates would be pretty .
speaking of ive been talking to this lady about her calls. let me catch up with what has happened on the thread and i will post a pic of one of the ducks she has for sale =)

I kinda think the chocolates would be pretty too. But the pic is bad there I think.

 

[critterrun]

I intend to. I also plan on working "crikey" into my everyday conversation, lol. In honor of Steve Irwin. I loved him.

he was well liked (LOVED)

 

[70%cocoa]

Well.... I'm a stay at home mom, so I get NO sick leave, NO vacation and NO pay! And all while people are saying to my face, "You're so lucky. You don't have to work."... Really?

That is all. (Stepping down off the box... annnndddd I'm off the box.)

Carry on.

I have no (human) kids and I am definitely less harried than my friends with kids - whether they have a job as well or not. I think that having a job and having kids would be a living nightmare. Having kids would be hard enough all on its own. At least when I get time to myself I know that the worst thing that's going to happen is that the dog will want to be fed or a duck will start harassing another duck and I'll have to break it up. And then I can go back to my cup of tea, book, beer, gardening or whatever. I recently became an Aunty and I am pretty happy about that - being an Aunty will do me nicely.

I used to worry that, without kids, I'd end up old, lonely and neglected in a nursing home but that was before the internet.