I want to invite fellow New Yorkers to an event I’m doing at my house, the Eco Brooklyn Show House on Saturday 8/23/25 at 10am. 22 2nd Street Brooklyn. I’m introducing the community to my three new ducks. They will be six weeks old. They are Saxony ducks, second biggest in the world after Peking Ducks. They can’t fly. Very friendly and love to quack. Two females and a male, all of which are a beautiful cream color when older.
The box came with three ducks and a mystery bird. I called the farm, and they said they only sell ducks and that it probably got loose in the post office and a postal worker scooped it up and plopped it into my duck crate. Chat GPT looked at pictures of it, I call her Freckles, and authoritatively pronounced it was a duck. I pushed back and it decided it was a baby quail, or Keet. Which it wasn’t even close. The AI Manus correctly identified it as a White Faced Black Spanish chicken, extremely rare, extremely old breed, and on the critically endangered list.
She was very lonely and loves to fall asleep in my hand. My other three teenage brown chickens would have nothing to do with her. Luckily the three ducks adopted her as their mother, and they follow her around wherever she goes. Unfortunately, she also thinks she’s a duck, and I constantly have to save her from the water bowl because she wants to copy her water loving friends.
When in the pond the ducks won’t stop crying until I bring Freckles out to watch them. Then they are very happy. Feeling bad for freckles I asked chat gpt to find me a good farm that sells White Faced Black Spanish chickens because I got sick of looking. Everything was sold out. Chat gpt found a place in NC that had them. The farmer got right back to me by text. I sent him $120 for six chicks. Then he says due to the heat I have to pay $300 for special boxes. But I get my money back when I send them back. I was excited.
Then the farmer says I have to pay $100 more in delivery for these new boxes……and that’s when I realized I’d been scammed for $420. Sure enough, a Google search brought up FeatheredHarvest.com as a scam site. I’ve resolved to never get scammed again.
But undeterred I continued my search. I found six eggs on eBay with no bids and thirty seconds to go. My bid won at $28. The egg Hatcher thing cost $25. And I’m on my way to hatching them in 21 days. Which is good because that’s about when the ducks go in the front pond with the 13 turtles.
Freckles will stay behind as the mother of six tiny, tiny black white-faced chicks. They stay tiny for a whole year. And they don’t like cold. My winters will be spent with the most adorable tiny chickens. So come by and say hi to our big new family!
PS – I wrote this WITHOUT chat gpt
Gennaro
347-244-3016