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ChiliHeads as thieves???
- Thread starter AJ Drew
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Tilapia food.
The topic title did not offend me in the slightest. In fact I've taken no offense to anything in this topic. Why so defensive?ajdrew said:
Perhaps you should ask if something offended me rather than assuming it did. Just saying.
I agree with the last part of your statement.
That was more my point.
Sicman, the one on my shoulder is a muscovy. Laws are back to saying they are OK to own. They do not quack and they roost in trees. So they do not keep you awake and they are not easily eaten at night by preditors. We also have pekings. They quack and get eaten easily.
Thing is about the pekings, wife calls them potato ducks because they march the rows of potato and eat the potato bugs. Back and forth, every day, they eat the potato bugs. Great for pest control. Down side, any tomato below duck level gets eaten. The muscovy are worse in that they will eat cucumbers, zucchini, and anything else on the ground.
Oh but that is where us moving towards peppers helps, Seems each duck will eat a hot pepper ONCE in its lifetime. We do cage and stake tomato up out their reach, but I have also started planting walls of hot peppers around the tomato to discourage the ducks. Strawberry, oh hell I gotta hang them from baskets or I get none.
Also to keep in mind, pekings do not fly.. muscovy do but if they like you they do not fly away. Some of mine want to sleep on my chest. I have some experience with other breeds, mallards, call ducks, and a few odds and ends but I have really fallen in love with the muscovy and keep the peking for pest control.
So if you ever let your wife have her way, feel free to ask about the critters. I love them.
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Lucky Dog - Maybe it wasn't you. There seemed to be a tone. Sorry if I said the wrong person. Somewhere else someone asked why I would ask such a question. Just seemed like a good topic, but now we are talking ducks. Nothing beats duck crap off the bottom of a clay pond in the spring, nothing....
Ha, see I can crap talk with the best of them.
Thing is about the pekings, wife calls them potato ducks because they march the rows of potato and eat the potato bugs. Back and forth, every day, they eat the potato bugs. Great for pest control. Down side, any tomato below duck level gets eaten. The muscovy are worse in that they will eat cucumbers, zucchini, and anything else on the ground.
Oh but that is where us moving towards peppers helps, Seems each duck will eat a hot pepper ONCE in its lifetime. We do cage and stake tomato up out their reach, but I have also started planting walls of hot peppers around the tomato to discourage the ducks. Strawberry, oh hell I gotta hang them from baskets or I get none.
Also to keep in mind, pekings do not fly.. muscovy do but if they like you they do not fly away. Some of mine want to sleep on my chest. I have some experience with other breeds, mallards, call ducks, and a few odds and ends but I have really fallen in love with the muscovy and keep the peking for pest control.
So if you ever let your wife have her way, feel free to ask about the critters. I love them.
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Lucky Dog - Maybe it wasn't you. There seemed to be a tone. Sorry if I said the wrong person. Somewhere else someone asked why I would ask such a question. Just seemed like a good topic, but now we are talking ducks. Nothing beats duck crap off the bottom of a clay pond in the spring, nothing....
Ha, see I can crap talk with the best of them.
I think ducks are racists unless food is invovled. If I throw grain to them, they are all right there mixed in with each other. But at any other time, they dont seem to hang out. Good thing cause some of the chicken have taken to roost in rafters over my machine mill and the chicken shit is enough. The muscovy to for the trees, roof, and sometimes the top of my truck. They do not seem to want to be indoors, which is odd as it is winter and they are from Central and South America.
Raise them from babies and they will think you are mama. Just kind of weird to know some folk do that and then eat them.
Raise them from babies and they will think you are mama. Just kind of weird to know some folk do that and then eat them.
I think that would make them "species-ist" - racism is reserved for humans.
Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk and all that - in this case it's the "S" part. - some species of duck may not associate with others.
That's not racism.
Just saying.
Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk and all that - in this case it's the "S" part. - some species of duck may not associate with others.
That's not racism.
Just saying.
Lucky Dog - Indeed the word race seems to be predominently a human social thing. But you gotta admit that "species-ist" does not exactly roll of the tongue. Hoping you are old enough to get this, now I have the thought in my head of David Letterman saying the word while trying to save his monolog.