So there’s this company in the UK, right. They brand themselves on producing fancy free range eggs and as part of that they have breed information written on the carton.
I did some snooping and found that every miracle news story of a supermarket egg hatching in the UK traced back to duck eggs, specifically the Braddock White duck eggs produced by this one company for the supermarket Waitrose.
And one day my mum brings them home and says “I bought these to eat but aren’t they the ones that hatch?”
And it’s spring and I’m hatching a ton this year so in they went.
On candling we had three fertile eggs! That’s a fertility of 50% - the same as shipped eggs from a breeder!
Hatch day comes and we get 2 ducklings, Curie and Becquerel. Sadly, Curie contracts duck septicaemia from an infected navel and doesn’t make it, but Becquerel is a healthy bird and growing like a weed.
I had put 4 breeder eggs in a week after them in case just one hatched, so Becque now has two Khaki Campbell cross friends called Tsuki and Hoshi so she isn’t lonely.
And as of today’s 7am Quacking - Becque is a female! Which means she’s capable of laying eggs and therefore I have pirated a duck.
everyone please tell me what your favourite “ugly” animal is. we need more love for the beasts that arent as charismatic as the tigers and wolves of the world. mine is every slug ever
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i want to know what kind of world you live in where people find capybaras ugly and say shit like kill it with fire when they see one
bestie these are animals people like. these are animals people love. these are not animals treated with the utmost disdain just for existing. these are not animals people say should be killed or that our ecosystem doesnt need them because they hate the hideous beasts so much. these animals have charisma. please look at a deep sea animal or a weird ass bug. please. please.
duribg the bedtime prohibition if you wanted to hit the hay you had to go to a sleepeasy. and if they found out you went to one and snoozed they would shoot you dead
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