Posts by Buxton Ducks

I went a little crazy with my duck order this year so I expanded my run for all of them. Most of the ones are welsh harlequin and some uniquely colored blue swedes. I will get pictures of kirby as he grows and time will tell his color!

I know, right? How could I resist him? He will live with my duckies until he is big enough to take on the geese!

As promised, here are my poms, romans, and one ?? all starting to look like adults.  They are cute and fun as babies for a while but also a pain in the butt!  They are still trying to figure out my ramp system to go inside...

This little guy came out of a mixed flock of sebbies, toulouse, buff, african, chinese, pilgrim, embden, and pomeranian so my question is, any guesses on his or her adult color?  His feathers are poking through the fuzz on the top...

Mine fly all the time but just across the yard!  I have yet to have any leave me.  I was worried about this when I first got them, so I got Rouens instead but have since been given some mallards.  They won't travel away...

Too much energy for a hawk to deal with when there are delicious little bantams running around the yard! 

A little update, It is a boy!  So we still have no idea who is laying those eggs.  It is too bad this boy is sterile because he is so pretty.  He likes to fly up onto the roof of our house and hiss at hawks or crows that...

  Hatching started yesterday!  Little sebbies!

This is my first mating season as well and my geese have gone cuckoo as well.  From what I have read, this is all completely normal.  Waterfowl like to mate in the water and it looks aweful when they do it.  I swear my...

Last year my golden sebright hatched out an egg to a silkie roo, and this year here is that "chick" with her own chick.  Dad was an OEG.  She is thrilled to be a mom: