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- From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
- To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] grasshoppers
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:31:11 +0100
We have muscovies and they are indeed very useful
although they are still bad news in the garden as they like many crops. The
females do fly well but ours never roost in trees. Instead they sometimes fly
away never to be seen again. The males are much heavier and I have never seen
these fly. Advantage is that they have at least as much meat on them as a goose
and they grow faster.
Females lay a good dozen eggs and then start
hatching for 35 days (longer than even geese at 31 days). We have lost muscovies
to foxes here so I am not too sure that your coyotes could not get them too.
They have only their great nails for defense and they can empty their bowels in
impressive and smelly amounts with some force over a distance of at least three
feet with great aim when they feel threatened.
They can indeed lay about 50 eggs per year or hatch
a clutch 4 times per year if you let them.
John
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Re: [Livingontheland] grasshoppers
, (continued)
- Re: [Livingontheland] grasshoppers, John D'hondt, 08/17/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] grasshoppers,
Ken Hargesheimer, 08/17/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] grasshoppers, Andeanfx, 08/17/2010
- [Livingontheland] muskovy ducks, EJ, 08/17/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] muskovy ducks, Ken Hargesheimer, 08/17/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] muskovy ducks, Norma Sutton, 08/17/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] muskovy ducks, John D'hondt, 08/18/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] muskovy ducks, CHERYL WESOLOWSKI, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] grasshoppers, Tradingpost, 08/17/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] sustainable/Aliza/grasshoppers,
Aliza Vanderlip, 08/16/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] sustainable/Aliza/grasshoppers, Debbie McDonald, 08/16/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] sustainable/Aliza/grasshoppers, Ken Hargesheimer, 08/16/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] sustainable, Tradingpost, 08/16/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] sustainable, Catherine Noble, 08/16/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] sustainable, Dieter Brand, 08/16/2010
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