I put them in for 7 days and then candle them but nothing appears. I keep them in for another 7 days because I refuse to believe they aren't fertile but nothing happens. They mate at least once a day both in the water and on dry land so I assumed they would have it right at least once.
It seems like the drakes always give her a hard time in the pool. LOL She always seems to welcome it though. I might try to bring her in tomorrow for a bath if she hasn't done anything or I might just bath her in that pool while the boys are locked in their house. Thanks for the suggestion.
This is our sweet girl, Richard. We lost her to a hawk last week and are heartbroken. Her mate was a mallard drake (named Party) that was her partner in crime. They had never spent a minute apart!
My husband came home to find the hawk on top Of our poor baby's lifeless body and her mate watching petrified beneath our sons sandbox.
Leaving her unattended was a choice I will never forgive myself for. Party would call out for her for while searching the yard and then would stand silently staring at the spot where she was killed. He called for her all night. I finally took a mirror and a large photo of our girl and placed it in his coop. He finally settled in next to the mirror and stared at his missing love's photograph. The mirror I gave him was the same mirror we had given sweet Richard when she came to us and was devastatingly lonely.
These two photos will bring so many emotional smacks for years to come....
Her death brought on many different situations but the most important was the fact that I now had two drakes and one hen. I had to act quickly after finding both makes mounting the lone hen just one day after she died!
So here are the new ladies....
They hAve healed things in different ways. I wasn't ready to move on, but Richard would have wanted it that way.
I'm so sorry. I went through a similar situation this fall with my 2 drakes. I came out one morning to find that one of our beloved Magpies, Sanjay, had been murdered during the night. The 2 drakes were best of friends and Craig was so sad. I didn't want to leave him by himself. I put him in the chicken coop until I got my blue runner. Remington and Craig are now best of friends.
This is our sweet girl, Richard. We lost her to a hawk last week and are heartbroken. Her mate was a mallard drake (named Party) that was her partner in crime. They had never spent a minute apart!
My husband came home to find the hawk on top Of our poor baby's lifeless body and her mate watching petrified beneath our sons sandbox.
Leaving her unattended was a choice I will never forgive myself for. Party would call out for her for while searching the yard and then would stand silently staring at the spot where she was killed. He called for her all night. I finally took a mirror and a large photo of our girl and placed it in his coop. He finally settled in next to the mirror and stared at his missing love's photograph. The mirror I gave him was the same mirror we had given sweet Richard when she came to us and was devastatingly lonely.
These two photos will bring so many emotional smacks for years to come....
Her death brought on many different situations but the most important was the fact that I now had two drakes and one hen. I had to act quickly after finding both makes mounting the lone hen just one day after she died!
So here are the new ladies....
They hAve healed things in different ways. I wasn't ready to move on, but Richard would have wanted it that way.
