{"id":2515,"date":"2011-08-01T13:10:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2011-08-01T13:10:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T17:10:26","slug":"to-imprint-or-not-to-imprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/to-imprint-or-not-to-imprint\/","title":{"rendered":"To imprint or not to imprint?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m visiting awesome friends Ruth<\/a> and Oliver<\/a> in Cortes, They have been incubating and raising Khaki Campbell ducks for a couple of years. They’re apparently excellent egg layers (averaging 300 a year!) but apparently this breed fixity on pumping out eggs has created unreliable (characterized hesitantly as terrible<\/em>) mothers.<\/p>\n

So Ruth and Oliver set a clutch of 10 eggs in the incubator 28 days before I landed on July 30, and right on schedule, one hatched late that night. Apparently around midnight, another one hatched and two more have broken\u00a0 the outer layer of their shells. So I am trying to sort out whether to ‘adopt’ one for the duration of my stay. I can’t take it to Brooklyn when I leave in 2 weeks.My questions: is it mean to isolate the duckling for my bonding pleasure? Is 2 weeks too soon to rip it from its mother (me) and introduce it to its duck brethren?<\/p>\n

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I found this useful matrix from an uncomfortably compelling (more on that<\/em> later) interspecies site called\u00a0 The Goosemother<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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1.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

DUCKLING<\/span><\/span> sees <\/span>DUCK.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

DUCKLING<\/span><\/span> is a <\/span>DUCK<\/span>. <\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

MOM<\/span><\/span> is a <\/span>DUCK<\/span>. <\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKLING<\/span><\/span> sees <\/span>DUCKLINGS<\/span>. <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKLING<\/span><\/span> is also a <\/span>DUCKLING SIBLING<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

All <\/span><\/span>DUCKLINGS<\/span> love <\/span>MOM<\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKLINGS<\/span><\/span> grows to be <\/span>DUCKS<\/span>. <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKS<\/span><\/span> don\u2019t need <\/span>MOM<\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKS<\/span><\/span> like other <\/span>DUCKS. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKS<\/span><\/span> mate with <\/span>DUCKS<\/span>. <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

MOM<\/span><\/span> is now just another <\/span>DUCK<\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

2.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

DUCKLING<\/span> sees<\/span> HUMAN<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

DUCKLING<\/span> is a <\/span>HUMAN <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

MOM <\/span>is a <\/span>HUMAN<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKLING<\/span> sees <\/span><\/span>DUCKLINGS<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCK<\/span>LING<\/span> <\/span>is also a <\/span>DUCKLING SIBLING<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

All <\/span>DUCK<\/span>LINGS <\/span>love MOM<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCK<\/span>LINGS<\/span> grow to be <\/span><\/span>DUCKS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DU<\/span>CKS<\/span> don’t need MOM<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKS<\/span> like other <\/span>DUCKS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DU<\/span>CKS<\/span> mates with <\/span><\/span>DUCKS<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DU<\/span>CK<\/span> may love <\/span>MOM<\/span>, may <\/span>NOT <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKLING<\/span><\/span> sees <\/span>HUMAN<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKLING<\/span><\/span> is <\/span>HUMAN<\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

MOM<\/span><\/span> is <\/span>HUMAN<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKLING<\/span><\/span> doesn\u2019t see other <\/span>DUCKLINGS<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKLING<\/span><\/span> is only <\/span>HUMAN<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKLING<\/span><\/span> loves and needs <\/span>MOM<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCKLING <\/span><\/span>grows to be DUCK<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCK<\/span><\/span> likes <\/span>HUMANS<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

DUCK<\/span><\/span> doesn\u2019t mate with <\/span>DUCKS<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

DUCK<\/span> loves MOM BEST<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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From this matrix, I’d deduce the humane (duckiest) thing to do would be to raise a few of them together, let them all love me, and let them know duckhood. Ruth says I won’t have the intense pleasure of that 1:1 bond… I am torn by temptation.<\/p>\n

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I’m visiting awesome friends Ruth and Oliver in Cortes, They have been incubating and raising Khaki Campbell ducks for a couple of years. They’re apparently excellent egg layers (averaging 300 a year!) but apparently this breed fixity on pumping out eggs has created unreliable (characterized hesitantly as terrible) mothers. So Ruth and Oliver set a … <\/p>\n

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