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MJ
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 bit like u and that bat then mate
if there's any when I stop down (gonna around my 30th ) I'm gonna sit there lookin at them licking my lips 
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| MJ wrote: | bit like u and that bat then mate
if there's any when I stop down (gonna around my 30th ) I'm gonna sit there lookin at them licking my lips |
Whilst slicing spring onions and holding a cucumber
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: Re: Hatched our first duckling |
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| Peter Parrot wrote: | | Here he/she is at an hour and a half old. |
that's fantastic Peter,
How long do they take to fatten up?
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Peter Parrot
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Should be fledged at around 12 weeks. 
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Scott W
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So what are ducks like to keep Pete? I always think of them as muddy messy buggers that crap everywhere
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congrats
is there anything you don't breed? 
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Peter Parrot
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| Scott W wrote: | | So what are ducks like to keep Pete? I always think of them as muddy messy buggers that crap everywhere |
That`s exactly what they are Scott. But it depends how you keep them. We decided to keep ducks because of the river, which is chicken wired off so that the ducks can roam the whole stretch. They spend the majority of the day on the river and only haul out for a bit of fresh grass, scoff a bit of the wheat I provide for them, lay an egg or just bask in the sun on the bank. So 90% of the duck poop gets washed away with the river`s flow.
I have seen them kept in pens with concrete ponds. The water ends up like pea soup because of the high nitrate content from the duck poop and resulting algae bloom. They are great fun to watch and when I see them dive under water and swim a good ten yards before surfacing again , just for the hell of it, it gives a great feeling of being satisfied that they are content. They wouldn`t be able to do so in the pen/pond regime. Things WOULD get messy/muddy then for sure. 
| lovesnakes wrote: | | is there anything you don't breed? |
Homo sapiens. There`s far too many already.
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JStroud
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| lovesnakes wrote: | | is there anything you don't breed? |
Homo sapiens. |
Nice one Pete I'm gonna try and hatch some again in September...
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Peter Parrot
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Ducks I take it!?
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Congrats, ducks very nice and inoffensive creatures. Now wheres the plum source.
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