Woman Buys A Balut Egg In A Restaurant And Hatches The Duckling That’s Now Her Best Friend
Choosing the ideal pet is not always easy. You need to consider the fact that you will need to take care of him every day, fulfill his needs, his personality might be sometimes edgy or rebellious and of course, at the end of the day, you need to love him. This task might be even harder for city dwellers!
However, this Malaysian woman decided to take a risk and even managed to surprise her friends and family with her decision… Two years ago, 39-year-old Erica Lim, a creative professional from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, got a delightful little pet duckling!
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Everything started when Lim bought a fertilized duck egg in a Vietnamese restaurant in Puchong that sold pre-cooked balut. Balut is a controversial Filipino snack of a developing bird embryo that is boiled and eaten from the shell. Lim had bought one on impulse and decided to hatch it at home.
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Driven by curiosity, she built a makeshift incubator from a Styrofoam box and some heat lamps, and placed the egg inside.
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To her surprise, two weeks later, a cute little duckling was born and she became a “mother”.
Image credits: Erica Lim
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Lim instantly fell in love with the duckling and that’s how an experiment turned into a beautiful friendship. At first she named her Daisy but then started to call her by a cutesy name – Bibit.
Image credits: Erica Lim
Image credits: Erica Lim
Image credits: Erica Lim
Image credits: Erica Lim
Unsurprisingly, Bibit loves water and often sneaks into the bathroom to splash around in the tub.
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And if she’s quiet it means that she’s up to something. In a lot of cases, Lim finds her destroying something in the bathroom.
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However, she also loves to hang out beside her owner when Lim is reading a book or simply watching Netflix after a long day at work.
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Both of them love to watch movie marathons together just like any ordinary city dwellers. After all, she is a city duck and she knows how to enjoy the city life!
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In fact, when Bibit was still a little duckling, Lim even managed to smuggle her into local cinemas for movie dates. Bibit behaved really well and she enjoyed the whole experience.
Image credits: Erica Lim
Lim says that Bibit lays an egg every 25 hours therefore she has an unlimited supply of eggs that she likes to share with her friends and family.
Image credits: Erica Lim
Image credits: Erica Lim
Image credits: Erica Lim
“Ducks make wonderful companions. My Bibit is charming and attentive. I hope more people realize how much fun it is to have a duck as a pet.” – says Lim.
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i had a pet duck when i was a kid. she was gorgeous and extremely clever! my mother used to bake cakes made out of her eggs too
don't they poop everywhere and anytime?
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It is sickening - massive difference between an egg and a chick. Have no problem with using ordinary eggs but if I cracked one with a chick inside I would freak out
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It's so much better to kill and roast the duck when it's full grown!?!?! Unless you're a vegetarian, stop acting so superior !
I worked with a girl who had a duck as a pet. The sun rose and set over that preacious little duck. I can imagine they're great companions.
I have zero experience when it comes to this but it does sound disgusting & horrifying all at the same time. The only thing I have to add is that if she did sneak it out maybe she did it before they had a chance to boil it. Which brings the horrifying point up again. I could NEVER eat that !!!!!
This is so cute! I have had a duckling once, but we couldn't keep her for too long because we didnt have a pond. Me and my dad went to the feed store to buy some rabbit food, when we saw that they were selling ducklings! I peered in while my dad was purchasing the feed, and saw that one (a small golden one) was sitting in the corner covered in blood, and missing most of skin on her wing. All the others were picking at her injury! I showed my dad, and he decided that we should buy her, with the intention of putting her down....so we got in the car and he called my mom and told her the situation, to which she firmly rejected the idea of putting the poor thing down, and wanted to help her to recovery. After a week or so, her wing had gotten a lot better, but she was sooo lonely! My mom came home one day with a lil black and grey little friend for her! After about 4 months or so, her wing had made significant progress and we handed the two of them over to my aunt, who had some ducklings from the same litter, and a pond. They are now full grown and have a very happy luttle life with a flock of other ducks. The end! Btw her name was lucky and her lil freinds name was toke
I keep ducks and although they are delightful creatures mine are often explosively incontinent and stinky and I am frankly amazed at how clean this ladies home is. Salmonella is also an issue with ducks and although I do puck mine up for a cuddle I keep my face away from them.
Went through the trouble of registering with Bored Panda just to down vote this post, and I invite all Filipino readers to do the same. Teach "Hidreley" to fact check her stories (the original source is a Malaysian site that wrote about this woman's Instagram posts).
Yeah, this story is so not true. A chick in an un-incubated egg would die very quickly. In nature, when a hen/duck lays eggs (one a day), they are not incubated until she's ready to set on them, and sometimes those unfertilized eggs are in suspended animation until the mama sets, sometimes up to 2 weeks later. But those are just fertilized cells. Once the mom sets and the chicks start developing, they need constant incubation. The mom will only leave the nest for brief periods to eat/poop, just minutes a day.
Ducklings are just about as cute as anything. Grown up ducks are excellent repellent for any vermin smaller then a cat. For real. They eat insects, frogs, small lizards, small snakes, rats if they can catch them. Ducks eat almost anything. And yes. I have seen our ducks eat all that.
This article is poorly researched. The author clearly doesn't know what balut actually is. By definition, balut is a boiled, fertilized duck egg with a partially developed embryo inside. They key word here is "boiled". They are never sold alive. This was not balut. And, no, I would never eat balut.
Obviously they are dead - they have been boiled alive
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Well I live in Puchong and I can tell you there is a Vietnamese restaurant that sells uncooked Balut eggs.
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I had one when I was a child. He used to go the beach with me. It was awesome, but they poo everytime like a pistol. Eat and poo, eat and poo, eat and poo...
I love it!! That is the greatest thing I have heard this month!! Thanks for sharing!!
Isn’t it a Netflix native advertising ad? Like, they win you with the heart-warming cute duck story? Maybe like a Netflix promotion in the Philippines 🤔
This duck was quite lucky not to hatch with deformed legs. The egg needs to be turned regularly for a healthy duckling to emerge and this often happens when humans attempt to hatch ducklings. A mother duck does the turning on instinct. Perhaps this owner took the egg out to look at it often enough to get the same effect.
Bibit is so beautiful, a rather unique idea, I have heard that ducks make very good pets !!!
She may have talked to the place about purchasing one before it was cooked just so she could have a live egg. Anyway. How does she keep the duck from pooping all over her home?
the story sounds fake, if you order balut egg from a restaurant it would be boiled (cooked). "Filipino snack of fertilized duck embryo eaten alive from the shell." - total BS, if this was true millions would have died already from salmonela. BP should research thier story, FAKE STORY AF
So I view this article, and head on to the next one i.e. "12 Crucial Archaeology Findings Of 2018 That Have Left Historians Puzzled". Lo and behold, image found under "#2" is coincidental but apt for this article as a history lesson
This part is NOT true: "Filipino snack of fertilized duck embryo eaten alive from the shell." The eggs are boiled or steamed before being sold or eaten. I've never personally had them, but I think to give the picture of Filipinos crunching on wiggling and chirping baby ducks is misleading.
Boiling baby chicks alive in eggs isnt nice either. Love the baby pink beak
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Lucky duckling :-). To be more precise though what Lim bought was 'trung vit lon.' I'm surprised she got it as a raw egg. Balut in the Philippines is almost always sold cooked, so there's no way they'd hatch.
I suppose that this is yet another poor translation that is spooking us.
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Well, that's not how it actually is. They cook it before it is eaten. The article is misleading.
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Oh, TJler... I would love to know how Asians cat! Sorry to put this here Meowton, impossible to reply to the troll. You aren't wrong about humans though - we are weak and very confused.
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You're half right.
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i had a pet duck when i was a kid. she was gorgeous and extremely clever! my mother used to bake cakes made out of her eggs too
don't they poop everywhere and anytime?
Load More Replies... It is sickening - massive difference between an egg and a chick. Have no problem with using ordinary eggs but if I cracked one with a chick inside I would freak out
Load More Replies... It's so much better to kill and roast the duck when it's full grown!?!?! Unless you're a vegetarian, stop acting so superior !
I worked with a girl who had a duck as a pet. The sun rose and set over that preacious little duck. I can imagine they're great companions.
I have zero experience when it comes to this but it does sound disgusting & horrifying all at the same time. The only thing I have to add is that if she did sneak it out maybe she did it before they had a chance to boil it. Which brings the horrifying point up again. I could NEVER eat that !!!!!
This is so cute! I have had a duckling once, but we couldn't keep her for too long because we didnt have a pond. Me and my dad went to the feed store to buy some rabbit food, when we saw that they were selling ducklings! I peered in while my dad was purchasing the feed, and saw that one (a small golden one) was sitting in the corner covered in blood, and missing most of skin on her wing. All the others were picking at her injury! I showed my dad, and he decided that we should buy her, with the intention of putting her down....so we got in the car and he called my mom and told her the situation, to which she firmly rejected the idea of putting the poor thing down, and wanted to help her to recovery. After a week or so, her wing had gotten a lot better, but she was sooo lonely! My mom came home one day with a lil black and grey little friend for her! After about 4 months or so, her wing had made significant progress and we handed the two of them over to my aunt, who had some ducklings from the same litter, and a pond. They are now full grown and have a very happy luttle life with a flock of other ducks. The end! Btw her name was lucky and her lil freinds name was toke
I keep ducks and although they are delightful creatures mine are often explosively incontinent and stinky and I am frankly amazed at how clean this ladies home is. Salmonella is also an issue with ducks and although I do puck mine up for a cuddle I keep my face away from them.
Went through the trouble of registering with Bored Panda just to down vote this post, and I invite all Filipino readers to do the same. Teach "Hidreley" to fact check her stories (the original source is a Malaysian site that wrote about this woman's Instagram posts).
Yeah, this story is so not true. A chick in an un-incubated egg would die very quickly. In nature, when a hen/duck lays eggs (one a day), they are not incubated until she's ready to set on them, and sometimes those unfertilized eggs are in suspended animation until the mama sets, sometimes up to 2 weeks later. But those are just fertilized cells. Once the mom sets and the chicks start developing, they need constant incubation. The mom will only leave the nest for brief periods to eat/poop, just minutes a day.
Ducklings are just about as cute as anything. Grown up ducks are excellent repellent for any vermin smaller then a cat. For real. They eat insects, frogs, small lizards, small snakes, rats if they can catch them. Ducks eat almost anything. And yes. I have seen our ducks eat all that.
This article is poorly researched. The author clearly doesn't know what balut actually is. By definition, balut is a boiled, fertilized duck egg with a partially developed embryo inside. They key word here is "boiled". They are never sold alive. This was not balut. And, no, I would never eat balut.
Obviously they are dead - they have been boiled alive
Load More Replies... Well I live in Puchong and I can tell you there is a Vietnamese restaurant that sells uncooked Balut eggs.
Load More Replies... I had one when I was a child. He used to go the beach with me. It was awesome, but they poo everytime like a pistol. Eat and poo, eat and poo, eat and poo...
I love it!! That is the greatest thing I have heard this month!! Thanks for sharing!!
Isn’t it a Netflix native advertising ad? Like, they win you with the heart-warming cute duck story? Maybe like a Netflix promotion in the Philippines 🤔
This duck was quite lucky not to hatch with deformed legs. The egg needs to be turned regularly for a healthy duckling to emerge and this often happens when humans attempt to hatch ducklings. A mother duck does the turning on instinct. Perhaps this owner took the egg out to look at it often enough to get the same effect.
Bibit is so beautiful, a rather unique idea, I have heard that ducks make very good pets !!!
She may have talked to the place about purchasing one before it was cooked just so she could have a live egg. Anyway. How does she keep the duck from pooping all over her home?
the story sounds fake, if you order balut egg from a restaurant it would be boiled (cooked). "Filipino snack of fertilized duck embryo eaten alive from the shell." - total BS, if this was true millions would have died already from salmonela. BP should research thier story, FAKE STORY AF
So I view this article, and head on to the next one i.e. "12 Crucial Archaeology Findings Of 2018 That Have Left Historians Puzzled". Lo and behold, image found under "#2" is coincidental but apt for this article as a history lesson
This part is NOT true: "Filipino snack of fertilized duck embryo eaten alive from the shell." The eggs are boiled or steamed before being sold or eaten. I've never personally had them, but I think to give the picture of Filipinos crunching on wiggling and chirping baby ducks is misleading.
Boiling baby chicks alive in eggs isnt nice either. Love the baby pink beak
Load More Replies... Lucky duckling :-). To be more precise though what Lim bought was 'trung vit lon.' I'm surprised she got it as a raw egg. Balut in the Philippines is almost always sold cooked, so there's no way they'd hatch.
I suppose that this is yet another poor translation that is spooking us.
Load More Replies... Well, that's not how it actually is. They cook it before it is eaten. The article is misleading.
Load More Replies... Oh, TJler... I would love to know how Asians cat! Sorry to put this here Meowton, impossible to reply to the troll. You aren't wrong about humans though - we are weak and very confused.
Load More Replies... You're half right.
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