Violet is laying grey eggs! I've found 6 this week! Then we have three Anconas laying pastel teal eggs. Our Silver Appleyard isn't laying right now because she is molting.
These are our two new duckling Honey (Cayuga) and Lemon (Khaki Campbell)
Right now we are enjoying all the Duckie cuddles!
We also found our first Cayuga duck egg! Violet (our almost 1 yr old) laid her first grey egg!
We found out one of our Cayugas we got from the feed store that promised us he was a she, is in fact a drake :/ We were worried about our female to male ratio till our only Mallard flew away! (He flew away on the week we were gonna clip his wings). Anyways we are changing her name to Darth...
That's a lot of ducks! Ya our one Cayuga that is finally quacking is super loud quacker! Out of 7 ducks she and one of our Anconas are the only quackers.
Just wanted to share pics of all our duckies!! They range from 2 months to 1 1/2 months...
We are thinking we need at least one more female! We are pretty sure we have 3 drakes and 4 ducks & we don't want our drakes to over breed our females.
Here is our quacking Cayuga Violet, our other...
Sadly we had to put our little Ellie down... The vet I called said it was failure to thrive.... :'(
She just stopped growing and couldn't hold herself up to eat... She'd flop around like a fish on dry land... We hand fed her for a week but had to help her drink as well.. That's when we decided...
Our Cayugas do not want to be held! Lol
We were hoping like our one mallard (pictured above) and the 4 week old Anconas they would settle down and let us hold them.... Any tips?
Also we finally named them! Felix is our Mallard, Jocelyn, Ellie, and Violet (although right now we really can't...