Re: Hen food

diddy wrote:

If they breed, would you send me some hatching eggs?
I was supposed to get 25 muscovy ducks a couple of weeks ago. My puppy got catastrophically ill, and I knew ducks at that time would be a very bad thing. I wasn't going to have the ability to watch them properly. The puppy made it, and now I need to contact the company and ask them to ship my ducks. They told me my ducks would be late shipping, and I said GOOD. And everyone else they told that was mad
They had an incubator crash and lost all their hatch. I guess that batch was doomed.

My ducks are only 14 weeks old and probably won't start laying until fall. I have 3 rouen, 3 cayuga, 4 blue swedish, 2 crested runner ducks and a pekin drake. My daughter rescued the runners and the pekin from an urbanite who thought he was going to raise them in an apartment.

Separating them to get a pure breed won't be easy, so the eggs will be anyones guess. I'll let you know when they start to lay.

I like the company of waterfowl. I would much rather watch them than sit behind the TV. I won't be eating the ducks or geese but do like the eggs. I've never eaten a goose egg, but I'll anything once.

I am much more protective of these guys than I was with my last 3 ducks. But they were mallards and it's hard to keep tabs on something that can fly. I built a metal storage building for the coup and put up an 8 foot fence covered with mesh to keep the raptors out.

I don't let them range unless I'm outside with them, but that is at least 4 hours a day. They spend most of that time down at our creek, which I keep an area clear of brush to discourage predators. I usually sit with them and sometimes read a book while they play in the water.

I gotta share the story of our Golden Goose Egg. When I was serving in the Navy we had just moved to a new town and were still living in a motel. It was a few days before Easter and our realitor invited us to come to their Easter egg hunt.

At the hunt, my oldest daughter got lucky and found a special gold painted goose egg, which won her a special prize. She was very proud of that goose egg so her Mom helped make a stand for it out of Popsicle sticks.

We had found a home and had been live in it for several months. The golden egg was proudly displayed on top of our VCR which sat on the TV.

Then it happened. One evening when we were all sitting quietly watching TV, the golden goose egg fell over for no particular reason and exploded! The room immediately filled with the most awful stench you can imagine. My daughter started crying because her trophy turned out to be a stink bomb. It didn't just crack open, it exploded all over the room!

My wife took the kids out for ice cream while I cleaned up the mess. Some of the juice had ran down into the VCR and I had a tough time cleaning it up. The walls, carpet even the ceiling had smelly scrambled egg like stuff all over it.

We guessed the egg hadn't been fully hard boiled and having been heated by the VCR for all those months added up to disaster.


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