tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737133611617701812024-03-12T20:12:31.077-07:00Life in the Dwindling WestLife in Wyoming, education on nature and wildlife, living with critters, wildlife photos and information, gardening experiences, conservation issues, vacation information, everything outdoors, education, environmental issues, loving natureTAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04329526402641112292noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073713361161770181.post-37269381631076294902020-06-03T15:32:00.000-07:002020-06-03T15:32:01.811-07:00Further update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Okay, first the adorably cute puppy pix. She's actually five years old, but she only weighs 7 lbs, so she seems like a puppy. Most loveable critter we have ever had. She sits next me at my desk much of the time. Unfortunately, she never outgrew getting carsick, so she has to stay home. Honestly, she hates care rides so much she runs to her crate every time she thinks we're leaving! She's very happy at home.</div>
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Covid warnings were everywhere, though I'm not sure why. There were so few cases in Wyoming and even fewer deaths. Guess the liberal media here needed something to terrify us with. We never had a full shut down and masks were never mandatory. The traffic never really decreased much so other than destroying the small businesses our governor says he loves, not much changed. Oil and gas layoffs, coal mine closing and small businesses destroyed by the elected "leader" should clear the state out soon..... </div>
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The redtail hawks were back using the outhouse in the basin as a nesting platform. Our realtor sent a picture of four eggs in the nest he took with a drone. We went down Memorial Day and this is what we found:</div>
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Last year, Jim went down later, into June and the four babies were larger then. They had some yellow on them. These were basically all white. They hid down in the next quite a bit but would pop their heads up to see what was going on. Hawks nesting on the roof means we can't use the outhouse, but that's okay. We have alternatives: Bucket with plastic liner and sawdust like we use at night. It's worth it to see the hawks.</div>
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Gardening is coming along very slowly. I dragged the raised bed frames from six years ago into the garden (we were killing weeds in the garden all that summer, so couldn't use the usual area), plus mowed most of the grass off (ducks were living in the garden last year, so lots of grass). I will till later. It's so dry, I had to water for several hours in the hopes of getting the ground wet enough to actually till. The greenhouse remains in need of preparation, but as long as it's hot, I only get and hour or so in mornings and there are other things that need done in addition to the garden.</div>
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<br />TAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04329526402641112292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073713361161770181.post-21128099528806808562020-06-01T16:16:00.000-07:002020-06-01T16:16:00.311-07:00Finally, I update!It's now June and it seems I have neglected this blog for many months. I guess it was a busy winter. Certainly an uneventful one. <br />
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We are selling our cabin in the Basin due to the evironmental pillaging of the wind tyrants. We bought ranch land, we now get an INDUSTRIAL POWER PLANT. Nope, the greedy tyrants will do whatever they want, but we won't be there to see the sagebrush ripped up, tons of concrete poured and thousands of tons of metal shoved into the sagebrush sea. We will not witness the extinction of the sage grouse and horned lizards at the hands of the greedy new gold rush participants. Humans never learn. They just destroy over and over.<br />
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I am still working on the garden and with the above average temperatures this week, it's slower than ever. My plants did well after I put them in front of a window and added artificial light. They're outside in a small greenhouse at the moment, waiting for their places in the garden and large greenhouse to be prepared.<br />
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Snow, of which we had very little this year. Summer is going to be dry.<br />
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<br />TAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04329526402641112292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073713361161770181.post-84059639141287546402020-05-31T08:23:00.001-07:002020-05-31T08:23:46.981-07:00My attention to blogging is not good!I notice it has been a long time since I put anything on here. I think they are going to revoke my blogging credentials!!! Update coming by tomorrow, I promise!<br />
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Seems like there are more and more and more, and they are growing! They have stripped several of my trees of leaves:<br />
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These are Russian Olive trees. The hoppers attack the caragana first, then move on. Many of my caragana have no leaves left. I keep them watered and hope they will survive until next year. Honestly, I have pretty much given up on the caraganas. The deer destroy them by rubbing their antlers on them and the hoppers strip leaves, even in years when there isn't an invasion. I have some ash trees, assuming the hoppers don't get them, to put in place of the caraganas.<br />
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I had intended to transplant the ash trees this spring, but broke my wrist and couldn't do much of anything for a while. It was too late by the time the wrist healed enough to be able to move the trees—they had leafed out and it was getting hot. So, next spring it is.<br />
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Due to the wrist, I also didn't get much of a garden in, which is probably just as well since the hoppers are after what little did come up. It seems this has not been a good year for gardening. I do have tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouse, so maybe I'll get something out of those. The hoppers do occasionally get in the greenhouse, but I can put Sevin on the plants and kill them. Outside the greenhouse, I haven't got a chance.<br />
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The ducks are cheap to feed due to the hoppers. They free range and eat the hoppers and weeds during the day, then they go in the garden at night. Since I only planted 1/4 of the area, they have the other 3/4 for staying in at night. It gives them far more room than the pens we usually keep them in and makes it easier to feed and water them. Eggs laying has been more erratic than usual. My pet, Baby, has been laying fairly well. I think the others are hiding their eggs under sagebrush and outside the garden where I have yet to find them. Ducks are not good about laying where you want them to, especially if they get broody. One sat on eggs for 2 months and hatched none. We may need to get new stock as these are getting fairly old.<br />
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The dog continues to be adorable (of course, I may be prejudiced!). She goes for a 10 or 15 minute walk with me when it's not too hot. I broke my wrist taking her to the vet, but after she was treated there for not eating or drinking for most of a day, whatever they did resulted in her no longer regurgitating her food two or three times a week. It also resulted in her gaining weight! Thus, the walks!<br />
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The last one is "puppy tracks" where I pulled her across the carpet because she often refuses to move with her harness on, especially in the house! I was amazed at how well a small critter can dig its feet in when it does not want to move!</div>
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These are the black-out insulating curtains I made. I didn't want to go back with the warm window curtains I had due to cost and complexity of construction. So I had to come up with a new method. See below the pictures for instructions.</div>
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This curtain opens by moving one panel to the other side, double-hanging both curtains on one side on the l-hooks that hold the curtains up (see below for more details). If I want to have the entire window uncovered, I toss the curtains on the bed for the day.</div>
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This is what the curtain looks like open half-way. This is the usual situation with this curtain. It can hang off to either side of the window.</div>
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These are used only in the summer when it's extremely hot. Since they are hung on l-hooks, they easy go up and down. I made a box in which to hang them when they are not on the windows. In the winter, the box gets covered and the curtains store in the shed.</div>
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This is not like the other curtains, It is just an insulation panel cut to fit inside the window against the glass and covered with a fabric envelope. I used snaps to hold the panel inside after closing the top of the envelope and there's a tab to pull it back out of the window when I want it out.</div>
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I started with bubble type insulation I bought in a roll from Home Depot. It's 15 inches wide and I had to sew two panels together for my 29 inch wide windows. I just hand-sewed it, securing the top and bottom when I started so it wouldn't shift. I bought the type of insulation with a staple tab, which just meant the inch on each side had flattened bubbles. I overlapped by an inch for the middle seam, taking advantage of the staple tab to get a flat seam.</div>
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You will need to measure your windows and decide how wide and long the curtains need to be. That's up to you. Also, the rods will have to be cut to size, with and extra 1/2" or so to keep the curtain on the hooks it hangs on. Most of this will become obvious as you progress.</div>
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I used fabrics I had on hand. Once you determine your window size, you can calculate the amount of fabric you need. If you have fabric available, you can make a paper pattern for the size of curtain required and then lay it on the fabric to check and see if you have enough fabric. Otherwise, you'll have to do some math! Any lightweight fabric will do. I used denim on my small bathroom window, but that would be too heavy for these curtains.</div>
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I will note that plaid may not be a good choice of pattern. I had a hard time getting all the seams and casings perfectly straight and it is very noticeable on plaid!</div>
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The covers are an envelope into which the insulation slides. I sewed ribbons into the casing and the side with just the turned over edge so I could secure the envelope together at the top, rather than using a permanent seam that wouldn't allow for easy washing and fabric replacement. This was probably the slowest part—the ribbons were stubborn about staying pinned in place!</div>
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This is the envelope with the insulation pushed inside. The middle seam goes down the middle of the envelope vertically. I trimmed any pieces that did not quite fit. You want a tight fit for a smooth looking curtain, but not bulging or curving. It needs to lay flat. The white rods off to the right are what I used to hang the curtains with. They are 3/16" rod I got from a local recycling business. I painted them white to give them a nicer look than bar metal. If your curtains are long, you may need a slightly larger diameter rod. However, these are very lightweight curtains.</div>
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This is the envelope, tied together, with the rod run threw the casing and the silver insulation inside. The ties keep the envelope "sealed" and allow easy removal of the fabric should you need to wash or replace it. This makes the curtains very easy to repair or change the colors of the fabric should you want to do so. That was a problem with the warm window curtains—hard to replace the fabric cover that showed on the inside of the room. Mine was never replaced. The fabric also had to be vacuumed rather than being washable like these are.</div>
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I did sew small buttons on the corners to hold the insulation in place (see picture below). I put 3 buttons on the top curtains because I made them longer to overlap the bottom ones, but they are difficult to visually identify as longer. The extra button makes this easy. (I will have to cut the buttons off should I replace the cover or the insulation, but that's not a big problem.)</div>
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I installed the curtains using l-hooks I purchased at the local hardware store. The curtains for the taller windows are in two pieces, allowing one to open all or half the window. The bedroom ones with the air conditioner and swamp cooler have extra hooks that allow the curtain to be hung either above the air conditioner and swamp cooler, or to cover to the bottom of the window in the winter. If we only want to open the curtain half way, the bottom curtain moves to hang with the top one on the top hooks. If the full window is opened, I toss the curtains on the bed during the day. I used longer hooks on top to accommodate the double hanging of curtains.</div>
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Because the curtains can slide off the rods, I put rubber bands on the rods to prevent this. It's optional. If the casing is tight enough or you don't move the curtains often, they will not be needed.</div>
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See the button sewn on to hold the insulation in place? There's one on each corner and an extra one in the middle on the top curtain.</div>
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These are not as effective as the warm window curtains because they simply hang on a rod and have no magnetic strip holding them tight against the wall. However, I have had them freeze to the window on cold nights, so they do insulate. They also block virtually all light. These are much lighter and easier to deal with than hanging a blanket over the window or other varients on DIY warm window curtains. As noted, I do have them freeze to the window due to condensation on the window. My house has a condensation problem and it stained the warm window curtains on the window side quite badly. This is why I chose to make covers that can easily be replaced.</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>A word about the “fake prairie life". There are blogs about "prairie life" that include dressing up fancy and pushing products on the net. THAT IS NOT PRAIRIE LIFE. That’s downtown Denver life. Believing this fantasy land can lead people to think moving to the prairie is romantic. Suddenly, the kid is bitten by a rattlesnake, the dog attacked and killed by an eagle, and the home flooded in a hail storm and electricity is out for two weeks. Assuming one is still there when winter hits, it's 10 feet of snow and 60 mph winds. The lie of the prairie romance is exposed. I find all of this type of “make-believe” harmful to the world, creating a false story that people fall for and can end up dead from. I realize that fiction is the new “reality”, but I have to mention that reality still exists even if you think you can ignore it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Speaking of rattlesnakes, I came out of my garage and found this on laying along the path to the house. I fetched the snake hook, a cooler and the snake is now in the taped shut cooler in the shade to be released after my hubby comes home. We usually look for an open place to release these, though the wiping out of ranches means there are fewer and fewer places the snake can actually live. (For those of you who hate rattlesnakes, all I can say is "haunta virus". You kill the predators that keep the vermin in check, you get more vermin.)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>A couple of days later while mowing I went over the top of a baby rattlesnake, about the size of a pencil. I couldn't catch him and he slithered out of the yard. About 4 days later we found him again out in the windbreak. Again, couldn't catch him. So now I do yard work with leather gloves on!</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">These are vermin haven. The bunnies like it too, but I worry that the number of mice breeding is huge. The county doesn't care in the least. You can have 100 dead cars and other junk and nothing is done. Now, for the lowlifes who want to live in garbage, that's great. However, I caution you if you want to move to Wyoming that you may be living next to garbage dumps. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>There is an up side to this. I was going to paint my house all one color and make it look nice. However, since I live between garbage heaps, I'm sticking with the calico motif and painting the walls, trim and skirting whatever colors I have. Actually, I kind of like the quirky look and since my neighbors have made it clear that there is no reason to care what your lot and house look like, I plan on going with the idea. Plus, adding some colorful "garden tool statues" (really recycled tools welded together and called "art"), probably a few other cute artsy things in really hideous colors, etc. It's quite freeing to live where there are zero standards. </b></span></div>
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TAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04329526402641112292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073713361161770181.post-12253790840817701632018-02-05T19:54:00.001-08:002018-02-05T19:54:50.856-08:00Most odd-looking critterWe saw this yesterday, the 4th of February, on the way home:<br />
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A mule deer without ears—or without the usual big "mule" ears they are named for. This one has like teddy bear ears. Slightly creepy…..</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The red sun is from the smoke coming from the West coast forest fires. Those have pretty much ended now and the sun is back to normal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The garden did pretty well considering it was cool and wet for May and June, then 90 degrees for all of July. The peas even managed to hang in there until about the middle of August. I did use shade covers over them much of July.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The zucchini is odd shaped </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The tomatoes didn't get a chance to ripen much before frost became common overnight, so I took them inside to ripen. The cupcake paper cups were my husband's idea. They keep the tomatoes from touching. I then made newspaper squares and set individual tomatoes in those to do the same thing. The tomatoes ripened faster than in the past, and were wonderful eating. I also froze a lot of them whole for soup and sauces later on. They're a colorful array of tomatoes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Skunks are captured and disposed of, however. One tried to dig into the garden and go after the ducks. After twice he/she dug under the gate as far as they could, I put the trap across the gate opening, with the gate closed, and set the trap. That skunk will not be bothering the ducks again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's funny, when there's a predator like a skunk or an owl, you can tell because the ducks are all huddled together on the far side of the garden. They stayed far away from the skunk in the trap, even after it was dead. As long as they could see it, they stayed away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had not purchased a gas can in years and discovered they were made useless by government regulation. I "adjusted" the spout, removing all the impediments to getting gas out. When I finished (picture is part way through the process), the spout looked normal again and gas flowed freely!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the "we have too many ducks" stage! We ended up butchering 16 total over the summer. Now, there's just 6 left. It's time to clip wings again—one was out of the garden this morning!</span></div>
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Today I was startled by a sparrow trying to build a nest under my window air conditioner. This is not uncommon. In the past, they have even built under the cover.<br />
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I thought maybe just putting in pictures of the critters around here might be fun. It's springtime right now, meaning it goes from snowing to 80°F (27°C) about once a week here! Icicles form from the rain sometimes.<br />
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We have a wide variety of critters around:</div>
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The tiny bunnies are now about one and half times the size shown in the photo. These bunnies live under the platform outside my door (seen in the above photo). I have nearly stepped on them several times. They have no fear of me. Nor do the deer.<br />
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The grackle comes to where I toss bird seed out the window. There's no feeder, I just toss the seed on the ground. I have gotten a surprising variety of birds to come in and eat. April and May are the best time, as the birds are migrating through during that period.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today, the 12th, it snowed a bit this morning and now it's sunny and kind of windy. Ah, Wyoming in the spring!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I bought supplies to start plants indoors when we went shopping. It's a bit early and I'm still waiting on the seed, but I figured I should start the peppers and eggplants early. I have an eggplant and a pepper in containers in the house from last year. The pepper still makes little bitty peppers but the eggplant hasn't produced. I guess it's not getting pollinated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Soon enought it will be planting time and I can go outside and "play". This week I'm going to clear the asparagus patch. The tulips and daffodils in there will be coming up and blooming in less than a month, barring more nasty snow storms!</span><br />
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While I have read over and over and over that male muscovy ducks cannot fly, that information is actually quite inaccurate. <br />
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Extreme cold is coming and my hubby and I were trying to move the ducks into the greenhouse due to impending subzero temperatures when New Male decided he did not want to go in. He took off, soared 20 feet in the air and landed 100 yards away in the neighbor's yard. He had gotten off the ground once before, but only about 6 feet. Every blog I've read says males cannot fly. They obviously have not met New Male.<br />
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My husband manage to chase him down and corner him. I notice when Tiny flew off to the neighbor's yard earlier this summer, she wouldn't fly back over the fence. When I penned her close to the fence, she finally flew over. Then, I just waited until she <i>walked </i>back to the duck area and she went right into a pen.<br />
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Since cold was coming, we wanted to catch New Male and stuff him in the greenhouse now. After being caught (the neighbor has a lot of piles of junk'n'stuff) in a dead end area, New Male was brought back to our yard and his wings immediately clipped. He was then tossed into the greenhouse.<br />
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Winter is here and it's COLD out there. December 8th it was -33F overnight. Today, the wind is blowing and it's around 17 degrees. The snow we had Friday is moving all around now!<br />
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Winter also returned with very strong winds and snow. The road that goes around the south end of Casper near Casper Mountain had gusts to 88 mph this week and nearly that high last week. Many places had hurricane force winds. Clark, Wyoming, topped 100 mph at least twice since the start of December. There is a high wind warning for tonight through tomorrow at 11 am. It's welcome to Wyoming Wind time!!</div>
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We also have had snow, which blows all over and closes roads. The snow then blows into rock hard drifts and leaves open spaces everywhere. It's a white and tan Christmas!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My garden is hanging in there, in spite of the heat. Earwigs are another story. Looks like I'm going to have to powder the corn and so forth if I want to kill them. I've drown tons of them by putting down wet sheets at night and then throwing the sheets into a bucket of soapy water, but I can't kill enough to make a dent, it seems. I've gotten peas, the beans are almost ready and the tomatoes have tiny tomatoes forming. I also say a small zuchinni. I can't eat fried zuchinni yet because I have no bottom teeth, but it's good for other dishes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The ducks hatched a couple of batches of ducklings. "Mama" hatched three babies around June 7th, then "Broody" hatched ten on the 26th of July. All three of Mama's are alive and one, the drake, is larger than she is now! So far, six of the ten Boody had are still alive. I added shade, a shallow water dish and a food dish to see if that helps keep the remaining six alive. It has been so very hot for the ducks. Broody is often seen panting and the babies spend much of day inside their house. We let some ducks out one day and others the next. Otherwise, they tend to fight each other. We now have one duck per cage, except the mature drake and one hen are housed together. This is much easier than trying to keep all six together. When the hens go broody, fights erupt often and I was tired of fighting ducks. So, they have their own little "happy places" and harmony rules!</span><br />
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It's now May 1st, though with the weather, you'd never know it. We have had snow three times in April, once nearly a foot. I had been putting my garden plants out in my portable greenhouse until the snow started!</div>
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This year the duck pen survived the snow, in part because I had redone the top and tied everything together and in part because we knocked as much snow off as possible. The dusk are doing fine. Two are brooding—well, kind of three. The one we call Broody who hatched a bunch of babies last year has been sitting for over three weeks. Then there are two sitting in another pen. They both sit on the eggs, at the same time. We had a third duck in there, but fights broke out, so she's now in the greenhouse at night until it dries out and I can put in another divider. If anymore fights break out, whoever is fighting is on their own outside the pens. I have no more room. Or said duck gets a room in the freezer. Muscovies are interesting ducks, but they do have a lot of interpersonal disputes.<br />
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The daffodils were blooming, but I had to bring them in when it got cold. There are more getting ready to bloom soon. Weather is forecast to hit 78F by Thursday. It has been a roller coaster here for about two months. Still hoping for spring soon!</div>
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These are the additional duck houses. We started putting them outside the pens with just an opening into them because the ducks don't make as much of a mess. All are hinged on the back for easy removal of eggs and bedding. We are learning ways to make the duck keeping easier as we go along.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">This is my makeshift greenhouse. I put the small, portable one out by the corner of the house for hardening off my plants. The plants are doing well. Some of the tomato plants are over six inches tall. Last year at this time, my plants barely had their second leaves.</span></div>
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Lastly, it's Sasha doing what she does best—sleeping!</div>
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Sasha is doing very well. Cute little critter, we think anyway. She's all of 3 1/2 pounds but very sturdy for such a small dog. She likes to jump from chairs onto the dining room table and then jump off when caught standing on the table. The chairs now stay pushed up so she can't do that! Sasha is also confined to walking on a leash because she just can't resist bunny chasing, right through the fence. While she has learned sit, stay and off fairly well, stop or come is not yet in her list of accomplishments. She does tolerate snow better than at the beginning of the winter, but still doesn't like "the white stuff" on her ramp and in her yard. She does love coming in and jumping on Jim or I while she's soaking wet, however! She will not wear a sweater. I tried it and she just sits still and won't move. We'll work on it.<br />
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It's been an interesting winter. There have been a couple of very strong snow storms and a huge amount of wind. My garden greenhouse had the fiberglass torn off the frame, so I will be rebuilding that. There was a prairie fire this fall (courtesy of the landfill not knowing what to do with a burning compost pile in 50 mph winds—burned down 12 houses and many, many acres of prairie) so when the wind hits the 25 to 30 mph range, we get sand blowing everywhere. Much of the area looks like sand dunes. When spring comes, the grass will come back somewhat and it will look better.</div>
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This month, we had several antelope go through our yard. It's kind of unusual for antelope to be in so close to houses, though they have become less afraid of people in the thirty years I've lived here. </div>
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The ducks have been doing well this winter. A couple of times they had to go in the greenhouse and off and on they had to go in their pen due to a great horned owl in the area, but most of the time they were in the garden area. Our "pet" duck, Baby, was alone in her pen as she does not like the other ducks (I saved her by bringing her into the house, but in doing so, kept her from imprinting on other ducks, so she's a pet). Then the male decided he liked the duck we called Tiny (hatched last summer as a single egg by one of our female ducks) and proceeded to show his interest by breeding her almost exclusively. As a result, he pulled out a ton of her feathers around her neck. She looked so sad and pathetic, I decided to separate her from the others. She and Baby did okay together—they don't like each other, but they don't fight. </div>
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Now we are getting to the season where the hens start laying eggs for broading, so I have the ducks divided into pens and Baby and Tiny are in the garden. Tiny is laying eggs, but I don't think she's old enough to actually raise baby ducks. The male is alone in a pen since he seems to be the source of the most angst in the flock. He's not happy, but when the weather is better, I will let him out with a couple of the hens at a time, so he can enjoy female companionship.</div>
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I planted seeds for garden plants. It's a bit early, but with the warmth of the house and a flourescent light, I think I can get the seeds to come up. Last year I waited too long and the plants were not big enough by May/June. I really love growing tomatoes that I can eat. They are all heirloom varieties and I freeze them for making soups and sauces in the winter. Homemade tomato soup can't be beat!</div>
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Garden season is over now—it's cold and windy. My garden did well, in spite of a slow start. My carrots and beets were huge, and the zucchinis very prolific. In August, there was a frost that killed half the zucchinis and damaged the pumpkin vine and tomatoes. I trimmed the plants back and warm weather returned, with the plants recovering.<br />
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Sasha is growing some. She still only weighs about 3 lbs but she's a bit larger in size. For a tiny dog, she's very tough. We found she does NOT like snow. First snow, when we opened the door to let her out, she started at the snow and then ran and hid. Finally got her out for a bit and she chased some snowflakes. After that, any time it snows, we pick her up and put her outside. She's very fast, however, and has been very successful at doubling back and getting back in the house! Yorkies are surprisingly quick. She's caught flies and killed them!<br />
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The great horned owl returned for a bit. While he was interesting in the past, the ducks are now living in the garden and I was worried he'd go after the ducks. We tried putting them in their pens and/or the greenhouse, but that was not working, so they are back in the garden. In the greenhouse, Baby has to be separated from the others. Baby was the duckling I found fallen over in the mud and brought in the house. Against all odds, she lived, but does not know how to be a duck very well. Baby does not really get along with the other ducks. In the garden, it's not a problem since there's plenty of room for all seven of the ducks. <br />
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I'm throwing in a picture of fall colors and of the deer in the yard. The deer are here often and raining down destruction on my trees. I didn't get time to prune the bottom of the Russian olive trees, which is just as well, since they ate all the leaves off the new shoots. I would have wasted my time!<br />
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TAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04329526402641112292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073713361161770181.post-90355429320012049862015-07-29T15:52:00.002-07:002015-07-29T15:52:35.488-07:00Muscovy Duck breeding<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I am putting in pictures of my Muscovy ducklings to show how they grow. I want to note that most of what I have read about raising ducks is not really necessary and makes a lot of work for the owners. Bleaching bowls, changing bedding if it's wet, etc all made no sense to me. Ducks live in ponds and no one changes the bedding when it rains. My Muscovies would roost in trees if I didn't clip their wings. I wash out the bowls when they look nasty. I add bedding when it looks nasty. My ducklings (Pekins, Rouans) when I purchased them were put in enclosures at 60 to 70 degrees. I did not have the facilities for warmer. They all did just fine. The ducklings my hen hatched this year have been cared for her. I figure the duck knows more than I do about baby ducks. In the winter, my ducks had a freezer for shelter during the day and heat only when the temperature dropped below zero. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The one thing I did have to deal with is predators. Since I clipped the wings on my birds, they depend on me to protect them. In the past, the single most cause of duck loss for me was the neighbor's dog. They now have covered pens that they go in at night and the losses have gone down dramatically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We did butcher four this AM and will do four more tomorrow. We don't have the facilities for keeping 16 ducks. The babies that hatched were always destined for the freezer. I wanted to know what the ducklings looked like as they got older. We started with adults, so I had no idea about the color changes as the Muscovies grew up. We ended up keeping one of the new males and getting rid of the older one. He was getting mean and beating up some of the females. Perhaps a younger male will not be so inclined. We hope not anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next year, if we let the hens brood, we will have to modify how they are caged and dealt with. We need more free-ranging during the day, for one thing. Otherwise, the growing ducks eat and eat. We went through 40 lbs of duck food in no time feeding them.</span></div>
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TAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04329526402641112292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073713361161770181.post-43943769509853170882015-05-19T18:00:00.000-07:002015-05-19T18:00:09.695-07:00Returning!I see it's been quite some time since I last posted. In the time passed, my pomeranian, Dusty died. I was in the hospital four times with three surgeries. That did not leave much time for blogging.<br />
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Things are better now. I just got a new puppy—a female Yorkie that we named Shasa. She's quite small—maybe a pound or so. Her parents were small. We had agreed that when Dusty died, our next dog would be a female Yorkie. We were not having much luck finding Yorkies for sale in Wyoming and then an ad showed up in the paper. It was a Wyoming breeder, which was good. She's quite smart and socialized. She knows what a pee pad is for, thought she may not always avail herself of the knowledge! Also, in typical Yorkie fashion, she is clever enough to climb up on furniture and other no-no's! We are actively puppy—proofing the house as much as possible.<br />
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One of our muscovies also hatched 11 babies. Nine are still alive—one got through the fence and died. Our duck pen is not baby-proofed either, it seems. One is in the house. I found him face-first in the dirt and felt sorry for him. I never thought I'd bring a duckling in the house, but I felt sorry for him. It's very, very cold here. Today's it's 37 degrees with snow. When I brought in the baby duck, it was barely above 40 degrees. I didn't think it would survive, but after I got it warmed up it started eating and drinking. This is the third day and it's still alive. (I use "it" because I have no idea what sex it is.)<br />
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As noted, it is snowing today. I had gotten all my cold weather crops planted and since then it has been really cold and wet. Our highs are often only in the fifties. I doubt anything has come up and it's too wet to walk in. I can't mow and the grass is a foot tall. We can't even use the dog yard because it's overgrown and it's too cold and wet to work in. For now, Sasha uses her papers. She's usually too busy sniffing around outside to bother to do her business. Typical puppy!<br />
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We also had hail a couple of days ago, enough that it looked like snow. There was a tornado that hit Torrington and very large hail in several places. This was typical when I moved out here 32 years ago. It is possible that weather does run in cycles. If so, winter will be long and harsh.<br />
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Right now, she's untying my shoes for the third or fourth time.<br />
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Had to put up a tarp to help protect the duck with the babies. It is really cold and windy out there. <br />
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<br />TAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04329526402641112292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073713361161770181.post-50651876975632578212015-02-20T10:58:00.002-08:002015-02-20T10:58:41.940-08:00Here we go again!It has been a roller coaster season. It jumps up into the 50's for a while, then back down to the 30's and below. It's predicted now that it will be cold and snow. Yesterday, I was out in a t-shirt and no jacket checking on where my ducks were. I left them free-ranging, which I have not done lately. Most days they go in the garden, where they are relatively safe from predators and wind. However, since it was warm and not windy, I left them out. They were showing great interest in something on the ground and in the sagebrush. Later, when I came to check, they were in the freezer shelter in the garden. When my hubby came home, the ducks had returned to the wind break and were foraging again. At night, they have to stay in the greenhouse when it's cold because that's where their heated water dish is. Most days I do let them out for a while, but if it's below 10 degrees, it's just too cold.<br />
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There's not much else going on here. Winter is just not the exciting season it can be. Hopefully, things will pick up, more snow will occur and things will pick up! This is Dusty "plowing" about 3 inches of snow on her ramp to get to her yard! She loves snow!<br />
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This is Dusty with her tail hair removed. She was sick for nearly two weeks and her tail hair was always messy, so I removed it. Now she really doesn't look like a pomeranian anymore. </div>
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My small Christmas cactus bloomed again this year. The larger one is not doing well, so I am going to repot it. </div>
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<br />TAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04329526402641112292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073713361161770181.post-85273379254634625372014-12-30T15:18:00.000-08:002014-12-30T15:18:05.647-08:00Happy New Year!<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Happy New Year from Wyoming!</span><br />
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The garden is all in now—see the garden page on this blog for an update.<br />
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The weather went from 60 degrees to 15 degrees in less than two hours last Sunday. It snowed, and then got to −22F later in the week. The ducks are in the greenhouse because there was no time to get them acclimated. Hubby had to take vacation from work Monday thereafter to help me move them from their pen to the greenhouse—they would not be herded. It probably had something to do with that rude wing-clipping we did Sunday when one of the ducks demonstrated her new found ability to fly! I had considered leaving them unclipped for the winter, but after the very skillful flight the duck demonstrated, I had visions of them flying off into the wind, the cold hitting and they would die because they were not able to take the cold. Thus, wing clipping party!<br />
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We had little luck hunting. I did get a buck deer but Jim did not. We also did not get any antelope. Every trip to the ranch seemed to included 50 mph wind, making finding and then getting close enough, impossible. We came home opening weekend and found our 21 cubic foot freezer had died. Fortunately, it was still at 21 F and the food still frozen or at least cold. We stuffed everything into the other freezer and coolers. I went in search of a new freezer, only to discover hunting season is the wrong time of the year to look for a freezer. Finally found a 21 cu ft replacement, which was bigger than I thought I needed, but turns out I was wrong. With all the garden produce to freeze, it's working on getting full already!<br />
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It has now warmed up to mid-twenties, with wind. If it stays that warm, the ducks can go back out to their pen. They'd be happy!<br />
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Looks like I have been gone for along time from this blog. Needless to say, the Pekins are grown and actually three have gone to freezer heaven because there were to many males. However, remaining male and female are too noisy and badly behaved for me to continue my Pekin adoration. They will be going to freezer heaven in the fall. The female is not yet laying eggs and I am waiting to see if she does soon. Otherwise, they will both be gone.<br />
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The Muscovies are doing well. Unfortunately they like to sit on eggs frequently and I have one in a separate pen right down sitting on eggs and some ceramic eggs (she doesn't seem to care what she's sitting on). Another hid under our shed all summer and managed to hatch exactly zero ducklings. I did have to fence around the shed to avoid another such incident. Then one built a nest under a car (not one we drive). We pulled the eggs out and moved the nest, but that was not to her liking so she went back in with the others. Now, the Muscovy male has decided to show he is boss and runs the Pekin male out of the Muscovy pen, or just blocks the door and keeps the male prisoner. Ducks are such sooo cute.<br />
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My garden has done really well. I have peas, beans, and carrots galore, chards and lettuce and the tomatoes have set on but are not yet ripe. I even managed to keep it more or less clear of weeds! This is what gardening used to be like before the grass took over.<br />
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We were going out to the cabin for the Labor Day weekend, but going in the road was quite wet with numerous puddles. We decided if it rained as predicted, we'd still be there mid-week. We left after about 2 1/2 hours when the clouds started building up. It rained on us about the time we got to pavement, which is good since the gravel road was still very wet. It rained here overnight and it appears to have rained in the area of the cabin repeatedly (judging from radar). If it clears, we are going to cut down a dead tree and some branches off others. I did cut some down the other day but the remaining ones require two people to safely cut them out. For some reason, the tops of the trees were not as filled out as in previous years. Considering the amount of rain, I would have thought they would have done better.<br />
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This is a peacock that was wondering about for some time. He had an annoyingly loud cry, usually early in the morning. Seems to have disappeared for now.<br />
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It's duck season here! First, we fetched six muscovy ducks, full-grown, because we thought we would not get Pekins this year. Their was on female laying, but after a foot injury, she stopped. There are five females, so in a while we should get more eggs. These are very, very mellow ducks. I have to chase them out of the pen or they just lay in there all day long. I stopped with the daytime feeding so they have incentive to go look for food!<br />
A week ago, the farm store called and said they had our ducklings. I was like "What?" We had cancelled the order because they seemed uncertain about getting the ducklings. Since we really like the Pekins, we went ahead and got the ducklings. They are in the garage right now so they stay warm and dry. They should be big enough to go outside in about three to four weeks, depending on weather. We won't house them together. I'm making a new pen for the muscovies that includes two trees inside and a lot of sagebrush for cover. It won't have a "top" on it, but the muscovies can climb (as seen by the "injured" duck that climbed out of the infirmary and was atop the regular pen) and should be better able to avoid predators.<br />
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There have been a couple of snow storms in March and April. Today, it was 71 degrees with 35 mph winds! Of course, it could snow several more times before actual "spring" arrives, assuming we don't just skip to summer!<br />
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Because it got down to 10 degrees last weekend, I had to cover the daffodils and tulips and picked the buds that had formed. They all did fine and will hopefully keep blooming in the warmer weather. <br />
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Lastly, this is a yearling deer in snow. She looked so sweet.<br />
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I am testing video on my blog. Note that I am not good with a video camera and that some of the video was done at quite low resolution. Watching full screen on a large screen may not be advised.<br />
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The first video is a swift fox we captured and later relocated. He's very vocal. It's amazing how much sound comes out of such a small animal. Also, he "barks" without really opening his mouth, which I thought was interesting.<br />
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Next is a buck antelope jumping a fence. Until the last 10 years or so, antelope went under fences, not over. My guess is they learned to jump from being around deer, which sail effortlessly over fences. Having to go under fences was a huge disadvantage for the antelope since many fences have little space underneath them.<br />
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<br />TAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04329526402641112292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073713361161770181.post-90190641365939720392013-11-28T18:12:00.000-08:002013-11-28T18:13:56.546-08:00Time flies when you're having fun!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year we had a yellow-headed blackbird stopping by our yard. I cannot remember having seen one in the past, nor had I seen the juncos that were here earlier in any other year. It may have to do with our feeders actually being full this spring! I also found a camel spider in the house again--I rarely find these bugs inside or out. </div>
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The small garden area did well, probably due to the increase in precipitation this year. We had far more rain than last year and it seemed to make a difference. We had a large crop of zucchini, two spaghetti squash, lots of lemon cucumbers, tomatoes, green beans, beets and a few carrots (the carrots didn't come up very well). I had allowed the cucumbers and squash to "climb" the chicken wire fences--with some interesting outcomes!</div>
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October 4th marked the end of summer/fall with a heavy, wet snowfall of 18 inches. Trees came down all over the city and county, leaving the landscape strewn with limbs. Two month later, the county and city are still trying to get to all the downed limbs on city property, while homeowners wait for tree services to get to their name on the list. We lost only 3 large branches, but we did go our and knock the snow off the branches to help avoid losing limbs. The duck pen, with it's chicken wire and snow fence cover, collapsed on the south side. The ducks were fine--they were a bit confused as to what happened, but they had apparently been in their house at the time of the collapse. We dug out the snow and pulled the sides back up, but it will require repair before spring and new ducklings are brought in.</div>
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We ended up with two female ducks which started laying eggs in August. They were quite prolific layers--up to 5 eggs per day! I ended up freezing many of the eggs because I just could not use them fast enough. Since the females were such good layers, we opted to find someone to take the ducks, rather than butcher them. I plan on going with Pekin ducks again next year. These were funny to watch and did not follow me around endlessly as did the Rouens we had last year. Pekins grow very quickly and could go outside quicker than the Rouens. The one downside was the Pekins seemed messier. They went everywhere around the yard together--so funny to see them waddling all over the place. They travelled much more of the five acres than did the ducks last year. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh, that feels sooo good!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Headless duck"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">We did not get any deer this year in hunting season. The one night they were in the yard was the night the duck pen collapsed. We had not seen much of them anyway--I think because it rained, there was more natural food and they stayed away. We still them out on the prairies near the house, but had not seen any in the yard until recently. The are mostly nocturnal at this point. The weather is getting colder, so I expect to see more of them come in as winter progresses.</span><br />
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