Thread: Post Pictures of Your Everyday Life

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I think we're all falling in love with Brickashaw. I've been talking about it at work even! The most common questions are, how/where did you get the egg? And did you make the incubator, or is there a duck egg incubator shop

I love the picture of the soft little baby duck in the strong man hands. <3

edit: hey how come you call him D'Brickashaw, but your mom calls him Alfalfa? Sounds like duck mischief to me

I call the duck D'Brickashaw because I think it's a fun name to say; it's also a ridiculous name. The rest of my family doesn't like the name I chose. My mother calls the duck Alfalfa, my sister calls it Baby. If our next egg hatches, I'm going to call the new duckling Methuselah.

I think I mentioned it before, but we found the eggs on our patio. We live near a pond, and we have a lot of ducks and geese near our house. Pekin ducks have been domesticated for thousands of years, so apparently they forgot how to raise eggs. The majority of the species will just abandon their eggs in the open. So we saw the first egg abandoned, and subsequently crushed by another animal. My dad told us to pick up an incubator so we could raise the future eggs/ducklings. My mom picked an incubator up from a feed mill.

The second egg should hatch between tomorrow and Sunday. I'm crossing my strong man fingers!

Originally Posted by Caenis

Methuselah.

hah! love it

I think I mentioned it before, but we found the eggs on our patio. We live near a pond, and we have a lot of ducks and geese near our house. Pekin ducks have been domesticated for thousands of years, so apparently they forgot how to raise eggs. The majority of the species will just abandon their eggs in the open. So we saw the first egg abandoned, and subsequently crushed by another animal. My dad told us to pick up an incubator so we could raise the future eggs/ducklings. My mom picked an incubator up from a feed mill.

I'm sure you mentioned it before, I just missed it. I had no idea so many get abandoned like that. So sweet of you guys to rescue them.

The second egg should hatch between tomorrow and Sunday. I'm crossing my strong man fingers!

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