I really like your ducks.Chad55;928294; said:
Vodka- the beast of the east.
Chief Running Water- The "little one"
Toby- My name is Kunta Kinta!
More update photos in the photo lounge.
Chad
post your exotic birds............meet Mine
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Red Devil;928332; said:very nice... i had a couple of mallards for my pond in Florida when i lived there and then when i moved to NY took them with me.. but i lost them to coyote or something at night.. they are all awesome birds.. I raised chickens as a kid.. snuck them up to my room because i knew my parents would get rid of them.. even chickens are incredibly smart. ..if you train them.
Liz, one of the best pets I ever had was a duck. About 7 years ago my female mallard's eggs hatched out about 14 babies. Well when I checked out the nest to remove the broken eggs, one egg was still trying to hatch. I took it inside because ants were crawling all over it and it hatched a very small duckling. Well the duckling looked at me and thought I was momma. I tried to introduce her back with her family but should wouldn't go. Needless to say, I raised the duck myself all summer. The duck was soooo cool, she followed me around and came when I called her name (Louie was her name until she grew up and I realised she was a girl, then it was Lou-anne). She would chase my dogs and the other ducks if they got too close. She would fall a sleep in my lap when I watched T.V. I even had her outside on our patio when we had people over for B.B.Q's. They all though it was so funny how this duck liked to hang out with people. But poor Lou-anne didn't know about all the things out there that eat ducks. And one day I came home and found out that she got killed by a Red-tailed hawk
. It was a sad day but I will never forget her: The duck that though she was a human.
Chad55;928370; said:
i raised some geese once when we had our larger farm.. i had a few geese hatch where they could not stand up.. their legs would just do a split.. i thought we would have to put them down.. but i took sandpaper and taped it to the bottom of their feet.. to give them a grip.. and with in a few days their muscles in their legs were strong enough so they stood up straight and they were normal...
Vicious_Fish;928386; said:Liz, one of the best pets I ever had was a duck. About 7 years ago my female mallard's eggs hatched out about 14 babies. Well when I checked out the nest to remove the broken eggs, one egg was still trying to hatch. I took it inside because ants were crawling all over it and it hatched a very small duckling. Well the duckling looked at me and thought I was momma. I tried to introduce her back with her family but should wouldn't go. Needless to say, I raised the duck myself all summer. The duck was soooo cool, she followed me around and came when I called her name (Louie was her name until she grew up and I realised she was a girl, then it was Lou-anne). She would chase my dogs and the other ducks if they got too close. She would fall a sleep in my lap when I watched T.V. I even had her outside on our patio when we had people over for B.B.Q's. They all though it was so funny how this duck liked to hang out with people. But poor Lou-anne didn't know about all the things out there that eat ducks. And one day I came home and found out that she got killed by a Red-tailed hawk
To me it is amazing how attached we can get to animals and how the animals who seem the least likely to make good pets become good pets.. you brought a tear to my eyes..because that was a very tender story..
Red Devil;928392; said:
Yea there are a few tricks you can do to help them out. We hatch alot of quail and we often get them where their toes are screwed up and what not and we just take tape and straighten the toes out and tape them in place. Usually it works within a few days.
Chad
Hey chad55, do you raise Bobwhites for release? I wanted to raise them because they are native to where I live, yet I have never seen one. I even built a Bobwhite recall pen. I hear their mortalilty rank is very high for released birds. Pen raised ones I guess have a very hard time adapting back to the wild.
