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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: piper28 on August 13, 2019, 11:20:11 am

Title: Ducks
Post by: piper28 on August 13, 2019, 11:20:11 am
Have three drakes for sale at the moment.  Still just under 6 months old.  Had an email the other day from a woman asking if they can be kept in a cage.  No Way i replied, why, where do you live, i asked.  In a flat she replied, saying she wanted to keep one in a rabbit hutch on the outside balcony.  Some mother do have them!!!!
Title: Re: Ducks
Post by: macgro7 on August 13, 2019, 11:26:59 am
It's good that she asked you.
I have people coming to and asking "I just bought 11 chicks from the market, kept them at home, some of them died over night. No idea why - it's warm at home!"
Or someone came to ask to see his garden because he's picking up goatlings that's he's already paid for but has no idea about keeping them.
Title: Re: Ducks
Post by: Eve on August 13, 2019, 11:57:41 am
I remember a classmate in primary school bringing a box of chicks to school, just like that in a cardboard box. All dead by the end of the day...  :rant:
Title: Re: Ducks
Post by: DavidandCollette on August 13, 2019, 01:09:06 pm
Once found a box of puppies outside the office on a very hot day. At least half a dozen people saw them and kept walking, so I took them on (much to the bosses disgust. Fed and watered them til home time, found new homes for them by the end of the day