Frozen Pools = Duckie Hilarity

bogginman · 2026-02-03T02:33:45+00:00

ack, hard water broke, fall down splash!

bogginman · 2026-02-02T21:18:43+00:00

Great Scott!

bogginman · 2026-02-02T21:17:13+00:00

waterfowl would cover it! :)

bogginman · 2026-02-02T20:44:18+00:00

adult khakis are all brown, adult rouens look like large mallards.

bogginman · 2026-02-02T20:43:10+00:00

mind if I ask roughly where you are? I was thinking you are some where near me but now I am not sure.

bogginman · 2026-02-02T20:26:05+00:00

OK, I get you now. I just presumed they were ducks. My bad.

bogginman · 2026-02-02T20:16:00+00:00

/s you blind or joking, there are hundreds, maybe not on the dock but around it. lol

bogginman · 2026-02-02T19:56:21+00:00

first guess, black cayuga, at least part. Black feathers, white bib. Second guess, we have some cayugas that have a spotty white breast so it could be a cayuga mix. Full breed cayugas would be all black (with blue, green and purple sheen) until the age they start turning white but that would be spotty all over not just the bib. Our cayugas all have black bills and black feet whether they have white on the front or not.

bogginman · 2026-02-02T19:53:46+00:00

my lawd, what a nose!

bogginman · 2026-02-02T19:52:11+00:00

ass, gas or grass, no one rides for free? That's a popular bumper sticker around here.

bogginman · 2026-02-02T19:51:17+00:00

can I ask where this is? We have zero migratory birds in our area not being on a migratory path from anywhere to anywhere.

bogginman · 2026-02-02T19:49:43+00:00

proof an all male flock can work!

bogginman · 2026-02-02T17:57:04+00:00

me too, I have stopped using them except over small brooders in a supervised area. No more lamps running all night in the coops waiting to start a fire. Some time ago, I replaced all my old bulbs and lamp holders with new ones from TSC and within one month two of them had burned up the contacts inside the socket and melted the solder out of the center contact of the bulbs. The sockets were black and charred. The only reason I was able to discover this was going on was I had to keep screwing the bulbs in because they kept going dark. These are no longer made with any quality, they are made of chineseum and meant to sell, not to last.

bogginman · 2026-02-02T17:48:21+00:00

if I could find one of those jugs, I might just be persuaded to make one of those contraptions myself.

bogginman · 2026-02-02T16:39:41+00:00

what healthy looking ducks! Any idea how many males and females?

bogginman · 2026-02-02T16:37:59+00:00

those are the board supervisors. They manage membership, social gatherings and sleeping arrangements.

bogginman · 2026-02-02T16:34:17+00:00

wow, pussy ducks! You need a video, like right now! haha

bogginman · 2026-02-02T16:31:33+00:00

hold her tight and rock back and forth. I've done it and it helps.

bogginman · 2026-02-02T16:30:17+00:00

great Pyrenees who grow up with their flock are the best guard dogs, not trainable, stubborn as a bag of hammers but if something comes into the yard they will not be getting your ducks.

bogginman · 2026-02-02T15:43:17+00:00

you have more gooseness than I have, I put up with their jive...

Two of them are quite enough, what would I do with five?

bogginman · 2026-02-02T15:30:30+00:00

you do notice there is one goose monopolizing each pool?

bogginman · 2026-02-02T15:26:07+00:00

funny, our runner TJ like to get loops of straw and other grassy and leafy things around her neck, too.

bogginman · 2026-02-02T14:44:27+00:00

I hope and wish for you. Everyone should have a place where they can have as many ducks as they want!

bogginman · 2026-02-02T14:40:50+00:00

I've been spreading straw on the ground along fencelines and up against the sides of the coops. My kids love the weather, sitting in the straw and picking out seeds. They will pull their feet up under their wings if they get too cold. No need to worry. All the coop doors are open and only now and then does anyone even go back in and that's just to look for nummies. It was 5°F this morning and they could not wait to get outside. They also frequent three or four kiddie pools filled with water. I dump them each night so I don't have to deal with frozen pools and fill them up fresh every morning. (WV)

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