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I have some chickens in my yard, and I find keeping them easy.

Is adding ducks much different?

I have found that ducks have a lot more personality, for lack of a better word. They are a little more noisy and chaotic than chickens. But I've only had two ducks so maybe it was just them and not a great indicator of the species as a whole.

Either way, I say go for it!

How do ducks just not fly away with the seasonal changes?

I think that the domesticated duck breeds probably don't have that instinct any more. I'm definitely not an expert, though.

Most domesticated duck breeds don't have strong enough flight muscles to fly any great distance. If you have flighted breeds you can clip the wings, this just means trimming the feathers and doesn't actually hurt the duck, if you want. You don't have to though, as long as the food supply is steady they'll stay put. If the food supply is steady enough, and you feed outdoors, you might even get a few wild ducks joining your flock; and they'll stay all year too.

This seems helpful! https://www.backyardchickencoops.com.au/blogs/learning-centre/integrating-ducks-and-chickens

Ducks need a bath or small pool or something so that they can swim. It needs to be cleaned daily. They poop a lot and everywhere. They are much louder than chickens (unless you've got roosters). I adore ducks but they're harder to keep than chickens.

Ducks need something to paddle around in and will, if they possibly can, also splash water everywhere and dig their bills in the resultant mud looking for worms. Iirc they may need slightly differently formulated feed.

Also when I was a kid my mom brought home a rescue duck from a coworker whose flock had all been eaten by raccoons except the single survivor, because the coworker knew we had hens and didn't want the one duck to be lonely.

The hens were fucking terrified of that poor duck at first. They were standard hens, not bantams, but she was a meat breed and enormous. She'd follow after them quacking while they scattered away from her.

They did get used to each other eventually.

A year or so later, she got sick with a nasty respiratory illness and died, but not before passing it on to most of the hens.

If they share food and water, the ducks will do their damndest to turn the dry food into mush and the water into mud.

Why is reversing your vehicle so much harder than driving it? I'm going slower in reverse, it ought to be easier to put it where I want it to be not harder!

For the same reason walking backwards is harder, 99% of the time you are going forward.

Why can't America just add the sales tax into the shelf price? Why wait to the end all the time?

Because taxes are different based on each county/city.

It's different based on state, county, and city, and those can overlap in weird ways. You can literally have a different amount of tax by going ten minutes over to the next town. It would be a lot of work for every store to figure out the tax for every item and put it on the shelves only to have to take it off when corporate makes them reorganize the store.

Why doesn't each individual store do it, like they do in the rest of the world? It isn't like the store is moving across borders. And blaming it on stores shifting products around doesn't make sense, because you are moving the price label with the product anyway. Just add the tax value in with the price tag on the shelf. Again, like the rest of the world. It ought to be easier than ever, especially since the computer and barcode reader already know the tax and do the calculating.

Because that would take worker's time ($), resources to create the infrastructure to do that ($$), products to maintain it ($$$), and it's not the law. So why spend the $$$$$ for something they don't need to do?

As someone who works in a supermarket in Germany (who is very backward when it comes to money - cash is still King here), I wonder how so? The cash register knows what things cost in the end aka the "system" (for lack of better word) knows. We have mostly electronic price tags that change automatically every time a price changes.

I could see the difficulty if everything was paper tags- which still exist here in some stores - but you have to change those for sales anyways? Do tax fluctuate?

We still have paper tags. I've never seen a store not have paper tags. We don't change the tags for sales, we add a new "sale" tag with the new price next to the regular tag. Taxes can fluctuate, on all levels (county, city, state). Usually it's property and income taxes, but sales tax can change; mostly as added (and then expired) taxes on "vice" items like sugary drinks, tobacco products, snack foods, etc.

Is the store on wheels and moving through all those different locations? If not, then the level of taxes is predictable in each store.

No, but as I've explained since we only use paper tags, and the numbers differ with each store, and stores are re-arranged every few months, and there's no law saying they have to, stores aren't going to expend the energy and the resources to do it. They just aren't. No amount of "but it's more logical to do it this other way" will get them to spend money they don't absolutely have to.

How easy was it for a teenager to get a drivers license in nineties Wyoming?

Idk about Wyoming specifically, but I was a teen in the 90s in a different state. I had to wait until I was 16, take drivers ed and have a learners permit for 6 months, then take a driving test. The driving test took about 10 or 15 minutes. I basically just had to prove I could drive on different conditions: the rotary, highway, local roads. I had to then parallel park and reverse and voila. Legal driver. The most challenging part was saving up the money for driver's education and the driving test.

I lived in Colorado as teenager in the early 2000s. I think Wyoming's driver license laws were very similar to Colorado's.
Pre-2000s, in Colorado, to get a driver's license you must first:
-be at least 15.5 years old to apply for a driver's permit (you take a written test and if you pass you get your permit; if you fail, you have to wait at least one day before taking the test again)
-in order to be eligible for a driver's license, you had to be at least 16 years old AND have held a driver's permit for at least 6 months
-you take a driving test (usually about 5-10 minutes long); no driving classes needed, no testing on parking/parallel parking (just a simple drive around a couple streets to see if you know how to do turns, read signs, look out for pedestrians/other vehicles, etc)

Somewhere in the early 2000s we had to start logging in X amount of hours driven before being eligible for a driver's license so my friends and I were obsessively talking about what it takes to get a driver's license.

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