The Quack Shack

[WannaBeHillBilly]

@Supercow I got my hand on a Haskap shrub! - It will arrive tomorrow, its already in the Charleston distribution center.

 

[Canadian Wind]

So the smaller breed's ducklings need less time? - Interesting but plausible. So Pekin ducklings need 30 days?

Don't know about Pekin, but Calls have a much shorter 'gestation', closer to chickens. I even read somewhere that Magpie take 21 days, but I can assure you that that is .

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

So with the weather looking promising for the weekend, i will figure out if it makes sense to pursue my latest business idea of selling nursery plants:

Basically the three rows in the back are ready to sell and if they sell for the price i am asking ($2 for pot, $4 for a 2x6 tray) it will pay for this year's cat-food. I have several kinds of tomato plants and some squashes and cucumbers. Do you think $2 for a 4-5" tomato is a fair price? - The usual stores sell them for 5-6$ but those are 7-8" tall…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Don't know about Pekin, but Calls have a much shorter 'gestation', closer to chickens. I even read somewhere that Magpie take 21 days, but I can assure you that that is .

I heart that Muscovie eggs need 35 days and Mules are somewhere in between. - That all makes sense, if you have ever seen how tiny call-duck ducklings are after they hatched. Goose eggs also need between 32 to 36 days and goslings are huge and heavy in comparison with duckies.

That reminds me: @Jenbirdee - How is Trudy Goose doing?

 

[Supercow]

That 28 days until hatch is similar to speed-limits: Just a suggestion…

Well in that case it's a very good thing I decided to start the high humidity phase a bit early... Had I started even earlier maybe all of the ducklings that attempted hatching so far would have made it.

 

[Supercow]

So with the weather looking promising for the weekend, i will figure out if it makes sense to pursue my latest business idea of selling nursery plants:

Basically the three rows in the back are ready to sell and if they sell for the price i am asking ($2 for pot, $4 for a 2x6 tray) it will pay for this year's cat-food. I have several kinds of tomato plants and some squashes and cucumbers. Do you think $2 for a 4-5" tomato is a fair price? - The usual stores sell them for 5-6$ but those are 7-8" tall…

This price seems very good. Slovenia has a much smaller average income than the US and when word got around I tend to grow large numbers of tomato plants people came to the door asking to buy. I was not ready for that so I just said well whatever you think is appropriate... And it was 2 EUR usually.

 

[Supercow]

@Supercow I got my hand on a Haskap shrub! - It will arrive tomorrow, its already in the Charleston distribution center.
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Oh good, what cultivar is it?

 

[Supercow]

I heart that Muscovie eggs need 35 days and Mules are somewhere in between. - That all makes sense, if you have ever seen how tiny call-duck ducklings are after they hatched. Goose eggs also need between 32 to 36 days and goslings are huge and heavy in comparison with duckies.

That reminds me: @Jenbirdee - How is Trudy Goose doing?

"Hatching time varies from 36–45 days for ostrich eggs, 46–56 days for emu eggs, and 36–44 days for rhea eggs."

Seems legit...

 

[Supercow]

 

[Canadian Wind]

So with the weather looking promising for the weekend, i will figure out if it makes sense to pursue my latest business idea of selling nursery plants:

Basically the three rows in the back are ready to sell and if they sell for the price i am asking ($2 for pot, $4 for a 2x6 tray) it will pay for this year's cat-food. I have several kinds of tomato plants and some squashes and cucumbers. Do you think $2 for a 4-5" tomato is a fair price? - The usual stores sell them for 5-6$ but those are 7-8" tall…

Those are very reasonable prices.

Maybe I'll start doing that next year, if I manage to get a greenhouse going. Between me, three cats, a large dog, two incubators and various brooders full of bird babies, I don't have room in the trailer to grow plants!