Recent content by donnavee

I'm in the middle of NC and was told by a clerk at TSC not to get any chicks on the first day of arrival. She said they have been having a lot of problems with chicks not making it. She blamed it partly on shipping delays and on their heating system. I bought some bantams from TSC a couple of...

Ha Ha, my chickens love that stuff too - we just call it "chickie weed". Seems to love growing in my raised garden beds so the girls get lots of it.

I had a chicken hatch ducks a few years ago and it was pretty sweet watching her try to teach them to scratch. She finally gave up and scratched up the goodies herself and gave it to them. She also looked pretty disgusted when I gave them a small tub of water to play in. But she stood guard...

The one on the left reminds me of yours. The pair is similiar but a little larger.

I'll try to get a pic of mine sometime. Hard to get them to pose for the camera.

What a sweetie. I have one that looks almost like that but is a girlie.

Ahhhh, how sweet. Most of our ducks are very friendly and like to eat hand fed treats - peas and mealworms are favs. But once they grow out of the duckling stage, none like being picked up and snuggled. So our chickens fill that void. My calls aren't laying eggs yet - or maybe they are...

And the Chocolate calls are the friendliest of all our ducks. Hubby was working near them today and they all came over just to watch him. So sweet.

My Chocolate Call - Coco with some ducklings.

I have only clipped a few and only to keep them from flying into an area where they might be in danger.

So, just so I understand - is that one photo total for the contest or just one at a time. I have so many cute ducks!

This is Squeaky, our white call duck - enjoying some North Carolina snow.

We have a small pond and our ducks stay on it or the bank most of the day. The rest of the time is spent in a secure pen which opens into a fenced in wooded area. We also have run electric wire around it. Like others, winter seems to be the worst time for flying predators like hawks. We...

I got my first chickens in 2009 and wasn't prepared for how attached I would become. We lost the first one when she was around 7 months old, no idea why, just found her dead in the coup. I had been sitting with them during a free range time the evening before and she seemed fine. Anyway, I...

Well, I didn't take a pic, but it was red looking & wormlike. She doesn't shake her head or have any bubbling, just breathes through her mouth with her neck stretched out and her eyes closed.