The Taj Ma Hal of Duck Coops

[EddieWalker]

Worst thing to get unstuck is a dozer!!!!

 

[BrokenTrack]

Worst thing to get unstuck is a dozer!!!!

I just use my Kubota to pull them out! (LOL)
(Extra points if you noticed my wife is doing so while wearing her wedding dress! :cool2:

 

[EddieWalker]

Funny, but you switched dozers for that wedding picture!!!!

 

[BrokenTrack]

Funny, but you switched dozers for that wedding picture!!!!

I use the John Deere 850 for pulling the stumps, and the John Deere 450 for grading the soil smooth after the stumps are removed. They work pretty well together like that. One has got brunt, but is slow, while the smaller dozer could not push a stump if it had to, but is very quick and snappy at grading.

 

[Piston]

Yeah, they are allowed to roam.

"Take the dog for a walk", my wife says, so I did, one of those two-way hikes for me, and a one way hike for the dog.

Am I reading this wrong? You killed your dog because it killed some ducks? And it was your wife's idea?

 

[CobyRupert]

We had, and have chickens. Then some friends gave us a couple ducks, and they hatched out a whole brood. Next thing we know we have about 9-10 ducks.

They were the biggest bunch of a-holes, second only to geese.

You’d walk out of the house to the garage, they’d be 70’ feet off to the side, not even in the direction you’re walking and start squawking “Oh no! You’re chasing me! Stop chasing me, Stop! Stop!” Attention hounds doth protest too much. Just shut up!

But no, if you want to drive out of the driveway, they’d be: ”Hey gang, now’s a good time to waddle over there in front of the car. Remember everybody, take your time.”

Eventually the chicks got big enough that the sons/brothers would noisily gang rape their sisters and mother in a big squawking production number. They were relentless day after day. Only so many incestuous duck gang bangs a person can be subjected to before enough is enough.
Luckily most eventually flew off or coyotes and fox got the rest.

Good riddance!

 

[EddieWalker]

For anybody wanting to raise ducks or chickens, the above statement about the gang raping is a real problem if you have too many boys. We hatch about a hundred chickens every year and the day that the roosters switch flips in their heads, I kill them. Same with ducks, but we rarly hatch ducks and what we have now is well balanced without any issues. One out of 20 roosters might be nice enogh to let live and do their job with the hens. If you don't want to raise chicks, do not have roosters or drakes. There is no benifit to having male ducks or chickens. They run themselves down to nothing, so there isn't any meat worth the effort to pluck them, and what you do get, isn't even good enough for crock pot dog food.

 

[BrokenTrack]

For anybody wanting to raise ducks or chickens, the above statement about the gang raping is a real problem if you have too many boys. We hatch about a hundred chickens every year and the day that the roosters switch flips in their heads, I kill them. Same with ducks, but we rarly hatch ducks and what we have now is well balanced without any issues. One out of 20 roosters might be nice enogh to let live and do their job with the hens. If you don't want to raise chicks, do not have roosters or drakes. There is no benifit to having male ducks or chickens. They run themselves down to nothing, so there isn't any meat worth the effort to pluck them, and what you do get, isn't even good enough for crock pot dog food.

That is what we do as well.

We have a farm, so we just cannot have problem animals. It is that way with sheep too. We have only had a few (3) nasty rams, but when they get that way, we put them down. I am not having my back or knees taken out by a mean ram. The copay alone would be more costly than the $200 ram. And I am taking care of the problem too. I am not going to pass a problem animal off to someone else.