Re: Hen food


"Nicholas" <njloch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

Great story Nicholas!!
Reminded me of a similar thing I saw as a teenager (but without the
stench), when my brother tried to boil an egg in the microwave. Amazingly
it came out of the microwave intact, but as soon as he hit it with his
teaspoon.....put it this way, he NEVER did that again, and there were still
miniscule bits of egg welded onto the ceiling when my parents sold the house
many years later. Once past the shock of the explosion, (and the relief
that no-one was hurt - not even a scratch on my brother) the thing that
fascinated me the most was just how many tiny pieces seemed to have exploded
into every imaginable crevice. It was as though someone had gotten a spray
gun and loaded it up with egg yolk and fired it around the kitchen. Hours of
cleaning that was, and I was forced to help because I didn't yell 'NO' fast
enough, and laughed hysterically afterwards at my brothers shocked face
(jokes like 'got egg on your face again' kept me going for years). Luckily
we were, and still are, very close so I don't think he'll mind me sharing
that one.
Rosie


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