The Duck Thread

[Debs Flock]

Way to go, Chevy!

Sure glad he was there. Could have been much worse. Give him a big ol' smooch for me.

 

[caesargirl]

Good dog Chevy!!!!!

 

[PotatoWaffles]

Way to go, Chevy!      Sure glad he was there.  Could have been much worse.  Give him a big ol' smooch for me.

Definitely could have been worse. I'll have to watch out for those dogs in the future.

On a lighter note, got some pics today of the youngsters

 

[Debs Flock]

Great pics! They're so precious!!

 

[AimToMisbehave]

Well I just had a close call about half an hour ago with the neighbor's dogs. I was letting the ducks forage in the yard outside their pen while I cleaned the coop and tended to the chicks, and my dog was milling about the yard as he always does when I am out in the pen. I heard shouting and saw that the neighbors black Shepherd mix was running in the field between our houses, and the neighbor was shouting at her to come back. What I didn't notice was that ANOTHER dog that I didn't know they even had had already reached the edge of the yard and was only about fifteen feet from my ducks. My dog shot out of nowhere and rushed at the other dog, a white husky dog. The strange dog immediately turned tail and ran home, and my dog stopped at the edge of our yard as he is trained to do. It all happened in seconds before I could even think to react. All I had time to do was yell my dogs name, and of course he came back to me. I am very thankful my dog is more vigilant and observant than I am.

And here is the hero himself, Chevy. I love my dog!

Such a brave and handsome man!

 

[allergymama]

Good dog, Chevy!

And oh my! Is he winking at the camera in that first pic?

 

[sryglet]

Update: candled my eggs and I can see movement! Can't see through the shells, but the air cells are obviously moving a little bit.

 

[PotatoWaffles]

Good dog, Chevy!

And oh my! Is he winking at the camera in that first pic?

He is and in the next pic, he is dressed in his easter best

 

[PotatoWaffles]

Update: candled my eggs and I can see movement! Can't see through the shells, but the air cells are obviously moving a little bit.

Yayyyyyy!

 

[Wobbles]

I am so upset.

Three days ago I had to make the call to move the boys to the garden to protect the girls. Pogo was beating up on little duck really badly during breeding. We were in the process of building a drake pen at my FIL's house but had a couple steps left before they could go in it. Figuring it would only be a few days we put them in our garden, it is not covered but it was that or risk them killing the girls. I figured the risk of a predator coming in under a week was low, we had had no issues so far and the muscovies often refused to come inside over night when we still had them. Wrong. We lost our beloved Pogo last night. I'm so mad at myself for putting him in the garden but I really didn't have a choice. We figure it was an owl, as Louie lost his mind at 4pm tonight when an owl started calling and he never reacted to it before. The pen was complete and they were going to move there today.

Nothing makes you feel like a bad duck parent worse than having had to make an emergency decision to save your ducks only to have it backfire and lose one.