Welcome to My BYD Page (BackYardDucks)
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In April 2008 I started with three runner ducklings from the local ranch store.
They were two fawn and whites and a chocolate.
The fawn and whites both turned out to be drakes, so I found two more hens
to add to the flock, a Khaki Campbell and a Welsh Harlequin.
Here is Bridgett, my first Welsh Harlequin Duck (click on pics to enlarge).


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My chocolate runner Aretha, hatched a clutch of ducklings in May 2009!

Here is Aretha with the first two ducklings that hatched.


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She hatched eleven ducklings, and then we added two
Welsh Harlequins ducklings for her to foster.



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Keeping thirteen ducklings warm!
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Auntie Bridgett loved to be with the ducklings.
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Momma with one of her daughters and the two Harlequin ducklings.

The same blue runner daughter almost grown up.

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I love it when the Harlequin ducklings get their spots:

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September morning in the backyard.

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