Peach Punch

[Bulldog lady]

From an old journal of my grandmothers cousin! takin it to be fact.
   We had other neighbors. One family from Missouri raised ducks for feathers and eating.  I don't think they understood about canning fruit too well as they had severjars of peaches that fermented.  They emptied them out in the backyard.  The chicken's didn't care for them , but the duck thought they were a pretty good treat so they cleaned them up.  When the men came in from the fields there were dead ducks lying everywhere.  They didn't know what had killed them so they didn't trust using the meat, but they thought they'd save the feathers anyway.  They  picked all the feathers off, the, the family went to town.  When they came home they were greeted by a yard full of drunken, naked ducks staggering around.  Their peach punch ad worn off enough for them to get up, but lack of feathers and aftereffect of the punch made it difficult for them to walk.  The weather was cold and the men had to put a stove in the duck house to keep them warm until they grew some new feathers.  That was quite an experience for both ducks and man, also, something new to us Jayhawkers.  The ducks all survived.

[Red Badger]

I saw the original document this was taken from......

[Hawken50]

 
Jim,Jim,Jim...Substituting the word duck for badger....aught ta be ashamed o yoself.I heerd that was at the last ronnyvoo.But i sho wasa nice of Lady Bulldog ta cover fer yas.

[Red Badger]

   I was covering for you...

Actually that occurred in the last years of the 1890's or first years of the 1900's in Winfield Kansas, and is from Lady Bulldogs Family Journal. 

.., The story did not specify but I would assume the Drakes were involved in this also....

[Hawken50]

  Yep i spect there's all kinds of stories in all our familys.

[heatherhistorian]

 

[old salt]

Ducks that is a new one. I have heard of pigs and even an old mule gitting it to the sour mash, the last ducks I had would not even eat corn unless ground or choped first.

[Bulldog lady]

Ducks that is a new one. I have heard of pigs and even an old mule gitting it to the sour mash, the last ducks I had would not even eat corn unless ground or choped first.

Yeah but it was fermented peaches.... not corn, ....