I kind of loathe going into the feed store to get food for my chickens this time of year, because all you can hear once you step inside is the baby chicks they have for sale crying for their mothers. I used to go over sometimes and fuss over them but one time while I was doing that another customer came over and started filling up a box with 'meat' chicks to take home and now it just makes me way too sad.

Anyway, as I was checking out the cashier asked if I kept birds, and then mentioned they got some ducklings in. I was like oh and she went on to mention that they had ordered laying ducks, but the hatchery had included a bunch of males as 'packing peanuts' basically with their order, to try to get rid of them I guess. Apparently a local farmer was planning on taking a bunch of them to raise for meat, but they had one lone boy duck that might still be unspoken for and asked if I wanted a free duckling if so.

I am in absolutely no position to be raising baby birds right now, but what the heck else do you say to "do you want a free duckling? PS if you say no somebody's probably gonna end up eating him or using him as a dog toy or something just saying"

So now I'm just waiting on a call to see if he's actually mine or if Old McDuckHitler took my new little buddy home to fatten up for slaughter. I probably shouldn't be getting attached before I know for sure but here I am.

I took a peek at them before I left. There were the big fat yellow ones, the ones that look like little mallards, and those dorky looking ones that stand upright with the little afros. I'm not sure which one is the odd-one-out, but they were all cute as shit. And now I'm sad again.

So fingers crossed and if I get him y'all get to help me name him. I already had a duck named Nicholas Cage so that's off the list right off the bat.