[Jolly Amaranto]

Last year, there was one pair of ducks sitting on a clutch when we had a record heat wave. Only a few ducklings managed to hatch. After those had bailed out and waddled off with the parents, I went to clean out the box and replace the wood shavings at the bottom. I was curious to see how far along if at all the unhatched eggs eggs got. I was breaking them to check out the contents. Some had partially developed embryos but one just popped and exploded foul (fowl) green goo all over me. I felt like Sam in THE LORD OF THE RINGS after he battled Shelob the giant spider and was covered in green spider blood.