Got My Ducks In A Row

[Norm]

Well not really the little guys wouldn't stop scampering around.

These are egg laying ducks, I got khaki campbells and indian runners.

[Haytrader]

Norm,

Looks like you have knoledgable ducks.
Running around reading the newspaper.

 

[iain]

we used to have runners on the farm years ago i like the way they lean forward to go faster

[Norm]

I've got em studing the wall street journal, can't do any worse than me.

Like any baby they wear out fast.

[SwampDonkey]

Duckies are cute as babies, then when they grown up the yard is full of the squishies.

[Swede]

15 years ago there was an old man and his wife I used to wisit now and then.  Their kitchen wasn´t like your or mine........so to say.  I didn´t eat or drink anything there exept the coffee, because I could hear it boiling.
On a bench there was two big bird cages, one for small chickens and one for very small. All over their yard there was hens, ducks gees and rabbits going. No fabric meat there!

I never tryed to find out evrything you could find in that kitchen. At the table where we sat and talked there was a big glass bulb with wires and other things, also some eggs. We had an intense debate and I looked at the bulb thinking about why it was there. Suddenly he became silent and in the same moment I saw an egg moving inside the bulb. I also  understood what the bulb was good for and that it was not the right time for rowdy talking.
I don´t know if I´ve seen such a gentle expression later. He just sat there smiling.

Norm,  Congratulations to the "delivery"!  

Swede.

[Mark M]

Good thing you aren't in Florida Norm, those guys would be voting this fall.

[Swede]

I belive people use to vote FOR them guys.................

Swede.

[Patty]

You know Swede, the world would be a better place if we could vote them  into office. Not only are they cuter than any politician I've ever seen, they have more sense.  

[iain]

there also straighter then most which says alot for the quality of politicians any where

[Stan]

Looks like you have them in a pile, not a row.  

[etat]

My wife bought home a duck one time that had one a them top knots on top of his head.  He ran with our geese.  We named him 'disco'.  I kinda miss that ole duck.  

[SwampDonkey]

 

's ugly duckling.

[etat]

Gotta disagree with you Swamp.  That lone duck with that topknot on his head named 'Disco'  would really make you laugh what with him following and keeping up with them geese!!!!

[Patty]

Ducks are a real hoot. We hatched several in an incubator when the boys were little. They would follow our youngest boy all over the farm; it was so cute...there goes Brett and behind him in a row were the little ducklings.
When it rains the ducks love to slurp up the worms...just like eatin' spaghetti. And then there is the sex at the water hole, but since this is a family forum, I won't go into the description of that.

Today our little ducks go outside to their new pen. They are such slobs, that I just have to get them out of the garage. I bought chainlink fence panals to keep them safe from the owls and other critters who think they are tastey, and plan to put a dog house inside to give them shelter. It'll do until we have time to build them a real house.

[SwampDonkey]

   Never had no water near enough for waterfowl. But at uncle's he raised geese. That old gander would take at ya and hiss like a snake if ya got too close to the babies. There was a spring hole several yards from the barn that they would all go to during the heat of the day, following along the old cow paths. In the evening back they would come and stay in the hey shed at night. One day a dog killed one of the adults and the other went back over the hill behind the barn and took flight a few days later, never to return. It likely didn't survive of course.

: Musta been slippin in the goose pooo


Got my geese in a row Norm

After dodging goose pooo all winter along the walkways, I can't say that one goosey didn't end up on the camp menu.

[Patty]

The messes that geese make will put a herd of cattle to shame. It is amazing that one little goose can produce so much!  

[SwampDonkey]

 

Peep peep peep, was going through my mind as I entered the hardware store today. hmm, I thought. I looked and looked. I didn't know they sold pet birds in here. Walked around to the isle where they had saw accessories and kept hearing that peep peep. I walk over to the counter to ask about them super inflated, over priced lock knots (from another thread) and still here a peep peep. I look down and there's a grocery bag inside a box with a feeder and water in there and 12 baby chicks. Peep peep peep. I said to the guy at the counter," I thought I heard some peep'n" and all I got was a 'yup' and when I saw the price of that lock nut I said 'nope'.

[Tom]

NAPA sold me "a" crown nut for $5 in an emergency one time.  They'll never do it again.  I don't shop in there anymore unless it's life or death.  Yessir, lost a customer.  I'm not shopping anywhere that has 5 or 6 price lists on the computer and no markings on the part.

[Swede]

Tom!

THAT make me raging! .............when I can´t read the price anywhere. In the nearest ICA shop I´ve tell them some times I wanted to buy coffe or other expensive things......... ".........but I go to Lessebo and buy it there and I´ll go there and buy everything next week!!!!!!!!!!! And if I´m on that temper when I´m at home again YOUR picture are in the newspaper tomorrow!!!!  I NEVER buy anything if I can´t read the price anywhere and You know it!!!" "
I say it so everyone in the shop can hear but its the only shop in Hovmantorp so.............. ´  I feel better after coming out from there.

Swede.