Sure worth a try. Better than some of the alternatives. Gonna have to check into that. I like my shoulder too much & getting tired of just yelling.
Love the river, but that's what brings the critters......
For those who raise DUCKS. I have a question
speasking of DUCKSSSSS>>>> ducklings that is.... any breed, 500 need a home, the chicken fairy is calling!!!
OK, my duck quesiton. i am ordering 25 from Ideal, since they had an overhatch that makes them as cheap as most chickens...
please tell me what to order. and can they eat game bird starter crumble?
tf
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I wish I wish I wish I had my system set up I would LOVE some ducks. Question can they fly and run fast to get away from a GP dog. i would really love to have some in my REAL fish pond, I have 2 ponds and the GP dogs run free to both.
call... call.. call... buy them and then you will set it up....
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
oh, osrry thought i was talkng to Christy...
yea yea yea I believe ya
Patch....just an idea, but after you get your camper set up to where you think it is safe, before you actually put your keets in there, I would give it a safe run through. Like say with cheap chicken leg quarters or backs or something.....see if they draw the coons or other varmits you might get. It might be a really good way to see what can get in and where and then you wouldn't really lose anything. I don't know how your camper is set up, but we had coons coming in from under it. They would come in from under the toilet, shower surround, from underneath storage that had cabinet you could access from the inside and they would come in from under the sink, stove area. It just seems like they can fit into a small space and then use their strength and paws to work out enough space to get through about wherever they want. We have been very lucky.....with 4 dogs around we haven't seen a coon this year around here. Thank goodness!
Tf........are you going to eat them, what kind do they have, what kind are popular in your area, what might sell the best?
Christy
ummm nope not me on the ducks this round......... : (
Good idea with the chicken bait, I'll give that a try when I set up my camper next spring : ) I agree, those raccoons can be determined little buggers!
Yes they can eat either game starter or chick starter. It's all the same to them! But they need lots of fresh greens too and tons of water changed every few hours cause they're real piggys. Darlings but piggys. Breeds depend on what you want them for. Eating or eggs. My Cayugas are good for both if you don't mind black shells on your eggs. Rouens are suppose to be fantastic for eating.
MollyD
I love eating the duck eggs and cooking duck. I might cave in this fall, DO you think If I got some in sept they would be ready for Christmas dinner.
getting 10 rouen, 5 each of khaki cmapbell, buffs, fawn/white runners... crested or not...
No Cayugas! I'm devastated :-( Quick call them back and tell them you need 5 Cayugas desperately!
MollyD
they said the cayugas are black. afraid our climate is too hot for them...
If you want more ducks the rouens are perfect. Mine filled one nest and the silkies took it, then she laid and hatched 16 more, now she is on her third nest with annother dozen or so eggs. I had no idea that she had annother nest. She dissapeared around the 4 of July. I had finialy given her up for dead and she popped out of my flowerbed to grab something to eat. They should be hatching around the first or August.
cool.... so i guess the only way i will get the blue swedes is if someone tells me not to get the buffs or the others...
dont get the buffs
Don't get the Rouens, lol!
Don't get the khaki campbell... LOL
GG
Do get Runners! (I looooove them)! Actually, I am biased about all my duck breeds : )
so now i am suppose dto just get runners and swedes??? WAIT, i see who started this.... you rotten roo eatin scoundrel!
OK, so i don't know WHAT i am getting, but perhaps i will figure it out B4 they hatch...
wat u said unless sombody says dont get the other ones u wouldnt get the swedes i just gave u an excuse u should thank me LOL
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I ALREADY told you!!! Get like three Runners, three Swedes, three Khakis, ect, ect : )
OK, but REAKLLY dont' want to cal lRAchel today, she has already left me ONE message... i have the space but not the cash.... does the chicken fairy ever leave money or bags of feed?
Sorry, never did leave either for me LOL Your (we're) on own own for that
Chicken SLAVES indeed!!!!
my DH is the true slave...
oohhhhh, a fairy that leaves bags of money AND feed....pick me, pick me, I want on that list.......
yea really me too
i think it would be bags of feed, and money. like coin change LOL not bags of money... that would be ummmm,,,, a very generous fairy... liek a govt grant for raising chicekns, LOL
LOL tf!
Sign me up!!!!!!!
i think every body would want to be on that list if i had more money i would get more chickens i would also get some keets and peachicks
OK, i think i am now getting 35 ducks, added 10 swedish blues... half will be crested... so i will keep the eaters and the layers... and i gotta say those runners are gonna be cute, will keep some for entertainment... wait, so that leaves me only selling.... 5 buffs???
This is great! Guess you are raising ducks too now, huh tf? So much for the patch - you take it off? LOL
no i think she ordered them before she got the patch if not tamara u need to change it hourly instead of daily in extreme cases
i need a case, no a gross, of those pathces!
yea me to. Maybe a co-op for them ha ha ha ha
You find them, I will definitely get in on that co-op!