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Majestic
Diary
March 7, 2009
Tony and
I had been measuring the cement ponds in the pens when
we came inside and saw a message on our machine. Our
local animal control officer called because someone had
called her saying a white duck was in their backyard.
She gave us the address and phone number. We called them
and then drove about 5 minutes to their house. We were
expecting a Muscovy and hoping for a hen, but... a boy
it was. We don't have room for any more boys, but when I
caught him I saw that he had frostbite on his face
nodule, two missing toe nails and frostbite around them
too (and on his webbing). So... I brought him to the pet
carrier and loaded him in. We're just going to have to
make room because I could not bear to leave him.
Tony
named him: Jack Frost. We brought him to our basement
infirmary and treated him with a wormer and a delouser.
Then we put on his leg band and gave him a Baytril. Then
we let him be so he would settle down. Poor guy...
Once Jack Frost was settled, we headed out to find
preformed liners for our cement ponds because we are
getting tired of re-facing them every year, which not
only takes a lot of time, but also costs money and at
some time the cement is going to add up to more than the
ponds, so we are going to nip this in the bud now. The
other issue is the ponds are never usable until we can
set a few weekends aside to repairing them and that
can't happen until Spring is REALLY here. If the ground
freezes after we repair any cracks, they just break
again. This means that the ducks and geese can't enjoy
their ponds on the random spring-like days like this
weekend.
So we headed out and found a place with reasonable
prices. Tony figured that it costs about $1.00 for every
gallon of water the pond holds. It's going to cost us
between $500-$600 for all of the ponds, but it will be
well worth it. They are a lifetime investment. And the
owner agreed to give us 10% if we supply our tax exempt
certificate. Yippee!
The store was awesome and had lots of duck and goose
stuff in it. I am going to bring the girls there when
they come up for their visit this June. I wish I had a
job, I would have wiped out half of the store--ha ha!
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