Recent content by chickensducks&agoose

I've had birds for 3 or 4 years, and have really enjoyed them. Currently I have a pair of chinese geese, 10 ducks and 16 chickens. As much as I love getting fresh organic eggs, and watching them be ridiculous in the yard, I've come to a bit of a conclusion. my life would be simpler, and...

I just want to disagree a tiny bit.... most of the previous post sounds right to me, but don't give them a kiddie pool until they are at least a month old, and the only when you can supervise them and dry them off afterwards. They will drown, or get cold and die if they have that much water as...

My ducks that smashed their babies are just really dumb, our pekin is more like a hippopekin... and our KC's don't tend to be great moms either. The best moms are the swedes, and I would have collected the eggs if I'd known they were making sneaky-nests... under the duckhouse (6 inches off...

Of our 7 female ducks, 4 have gone broody this year already... Ugh! We had 2 ducks hatch out a combined 7 ducklings, and then they smashed 5 of them. We rescued the other 2, and now 2 more ducks are on 2 more nests, and the one I can see (my blue swede) has 13 eggs in it! Oh dear!!!! Anyone...

As a mom, I see what other kids eat at school at lunch. My kids go with a sandwich or burrito, or leftover homemade pizza, a fruit and a veggie... and maybe a pack of fruit snacks or a fruit roll up. They come home hungry, and can have fruit, cheese stick, or a carrot... maybe chips (regular...

I once got a terrible chest sun burn (above my low cut tank top) and was wearing a chunky cool necklace at the same time... well, I had a pale image of that necklace on my skin for literally 2 years. It was crazy.

I told him today (after 4 years of having chickens, including anconas and spitzhaubens) that all commercial chicken eggs start out brown and get bleached, some more than others.... and that's how white eggs exist. He said "Wow, that must be a really strong bleach solution!"... and I just...

thrilled!

our shed is like 5" off the ground, and it goes way back. I couldn't see anything at all, and I just assumed (ugh) that they were all hatched, and that any eggs left there were dead or infertile/rotten. it died trying to find it's mother. I just feel terrible. I put the mama duck back out...

2 ducks were broody, and had sat for 5 weeks. on saturday, both ducks emerged from under our low shed (we couldn't ever see the nest) with 5 babies! We were thrilled. Anyway, I moved the whole family into the spare coop, to keep them safe. today (Tuesday) I went out to the shed, and on the...

We don't have a car, so it's just us, me and the 3 kids, trapped at home in the boonies. There's gardening to do, but he keeps pulling out the GOOD plants, and stepping on the peas, and sitting down in the carrots... so I guess I need to find him gardening work that he really can't screw up...

Trust me, I've tried the quiet talking. The girls are fine, but DS (8) loves to ignore me, and honestly, we don't really have any toys or tv to take away from him... he acts just like a teen, and at the same time, thinks his behavior is hilarious. He wrote on his little sister with an...

I'm not a fan of the sweater but it looks pretty good over that dress.... and... uh... you've got something on your hand...

I have voluntarily stopped speaking. I feel like my kids take my nagging etc. for granted, and don't listen like they should. DS especially, he's 8. He is making me totally nuts, and I am SO sick of asking him to "be nice, Sit down, Share with your sister, Don't talk back, Don't do that, Use...

I've had ducks for 5 years. I don't EVER feed or water them at night. ever. not even when they were little (well, after they graduated from the heat lamp).