Great account, thanks for the giggle.My buff opr chicken hatched one, and it was white...but dead. I had candled just hours before! I must have missed it by a hour or less. So I checked the rest, and found a duckling internally pipped!! Finally I am gonna have a duckling!
Today, I took my two Sebbies to the local Jr. College. Annually they have tables set out to entice people to certain programs, so it is crowded. This was the first time they were out, with diapers on, leash attached. We were fine until we actually got there! Charles somehow backed out of his diaper and poop spilled out. So I swapped the diaper, and had to scoop both Charles and Diana up. My girls thankfully were waiting at a booth, discussing the polish pullet on my daughter's arm. This gave the goslings time to sit and watch lots of people walk by and exclaim how cute the "ducks" were. Once I had recovered from the initial chaos we started to walk again, but I carried both birds. I put them down when I got to the grass and they loved that. I decided the three teen girls I was with could wander while I sat on the grass. I had so many groups of people, young and old stop by to ooh and aah at the two "ducks" and was there something wrong with their tails because of the "thing" they were wearing.
I never get tired of my answers...actually it's a goose, Sebastopol goose, they are three weeks old...no actually it's pretty old breed....(we have a town named Sebastopol here in Sonoma County)...one boy and one girls, Charles and Diana, those are diapers, because they cannot hold it like we can, they love to eat grass, they are great weeders for a garden and what they produce is great for the garden. So it's like an ecosystem....(here in Sonoma county people are very much into self sustaining methods, we are kinda hippie that way).
I was very glad that even the 10 month old baby was gentle when they pet my babies. I only had one issue with a 5 year old that thought the leash was to "walk" them. So I explained that was just in case they got startled. I eventually took both diapers off, and they were fine. I let them waddle all the way back to the parking lot, where I scooped them up. It was a long walk, because my "ducks' were so cute and unusual.
I am hoping to use them in hospitals and retirement centers when they are older. I purchase Mother Goose's book Duck, There's a Goose in the House! and if you have not read that book it is wonderful so far. I am glued to the pages, and love the excerpts she added in there. I am just glad I am not the only one enamored by house ducks and geese.
My duckling has not come out yet, but I am waiting patiently...
I have a small LED flash light that works great for candling.
