Local vet Barrie Fleming, who advised the farm’s owners, Roger Olver and Tanya Dalton, on the hatching, said they had “every reason to be excited by the birth” as it was a very rare occurrence.

The BBC has the video. Link -via Arbroath

Mrs Morgan is now trying to raise the £500 needed for an operation which entails Lucky’s right leg being broken again and set correctly. Since the damaged leg is now seven millimetres short, Lucky will also have rods inserted around it to lengthen the limb a small amount every couple of days until it is in line.

‘It is quite complicated but it works on humans and the vet is quite confident it will work,’ added Mrs Morgan.

‘Lucky is a real character and full of life. That is why I didn’t want to go with the first vet’s opinion about being put to sleep.

‘She loves having a cwtch (Welsh for a cuddle) and is as good as gold.’

Link -via Unique Daily

Inanimate objects can walk into a bar: Three fonts walk into a bar. The bartender says, "We don’t serve your type in here."

And my favorite:

A duck walks into a bar. And he says to the bartender "Got any grapes?" The bartender says "No, I don’t have any grapes." The duck walks out, sorely disappointed.

So the next day, he walks back into the bar, asks the same question, gets the same answer.

The day after, he walks back into the bar, and again, asks the bartender, "Do you have any grapes?" The bartender, having still not figured out why this duck seems to think he may have some grapes, says to the duck, "No, and if you come back in here tomorrow and ask me if I have any grapes, I will nail your bill to the bar!"

The duck frowns, turns around, and walks out of the bar. So the next day, the duck walks back into the bar, and asks the bartender "Got any nails?"

The bartender says, "No."

So the duck says, "Got any grapes?"

Link

Joe and Frank chat often on the road. Joe complains about the traffic; Frank quacks. And driver and duck go about their business delivering construction materials throughout the Twin Cities for Elite Transportation Systems.

“Pretty good looking site we helped build there,” Joe says proudly to Frank as they descend into the Mississippi River valley with a load of steel for the new I-35W bridge. “We did a good job Frankie.”

To many of the construction workers he encounters in his deliveries, Joe is now known as the “duck man.”

The title suits him just fine.

“I go to these construction sites and you always see everybody smile when they see him,” Joe says.

Link to story. Link to video.

This YouTube video is about Toby the dog and Sheila the duck who adopted him at the Mac Kenzie farm. The video, first spotted at Cute Overload, has gone viral because of the sheer WTF-ishness of it (is that a word? No? It should be!).

The video is subtitled in Spanish, but you really don’t need to speak a whit of Spanish to understand what happened. And be prepared to be amazed: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]

Update 11/24/08 – It’s a viral ad by an Argentinian ISP called Arnet – Thanks Demian!