When setting eggs under a broody...

[BigBlueHen53]

Ha, when it comes to dux, pay no attention to @duluthralphie ! He professes to believe the world would be a better place if there were no "dux" in it. I think his mother was frightened by one before he was born. The truth may be even stranger. I suspect our Ralphie secretly LOVES dux and can't get enough of them, and his public loathing of them is a big, fat, sham. Mail him 20 or 30 ducklings.

 

[Mimi13]

Ha, when it comes to dux, pay no attention to @duluthralphie ! He professes to believe the world would be a better place if there were no "dux" in it. I think his mother was frightened by one before he was born. The truth may be even stranger. I suspect our Ralphie secretly LOVES dux and can't get enough of them, and his public loathing of them is a big, fat, sham. Mail him 20 or 30 ducklings.

I agree.

 

[duluthralphie]

There will never be a living breathing dux here!!!
Ever.

I have my bees programmed to attack them.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Have to say I am siding with Ralphie No dux here never will be

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Have to say I am siding with Ralphie No dux here never will be

I won't have ducks either, but it is not bc I don't like them. I think they are beautiful, magnificent, adorable creatures. But I can't meet their needs. So will stick with chickens. I love horses too, but am no longer able to care for them, either, sadly. So chickens it is!

 

[Molly Mojo]

Thank you for that eggtopsy, it was fascinating, and well done, I thought.

Eggtopsy!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Agree I am 60 osteo arthritis and so on can keep up with the coops
not anything else anymore .. We bought a place 6 years ago 3/4 of an acre but a 4 car garage plus a tool room and wood shop .. Better half was a sea bee in Vietnam
he can build and does mostly for me ..
I can think I would love a horse again but know I am not 8 or 12 anymore
it would not be good for them.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Yup, Penny, gotta recognize our limitations, don't we? I'm so glad for chickens. Here's a few of the BA chix I got in Feb., they are starting to lay now. I have 10 pullets. There is a BJG cockerel in there too. I think they are so purty!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Yuppers got three coops here but have fun silkie are my guilty pleasure
they have their private coop and tractor to be outside in ..

 

[Mimi13]

So far the only extra I have to do with ducks is keep up with their water needs. I could cut back to swim time only once a week, but I would feel terrible because they love that water so. I do have to get my barn and chicken/duck spigots back on well water though! Last month’s water bill nearly tripled. Not good when we’re trying to find ways to cut back.