These guys are incredibly difficult to capture with my phone camera🤣
The dark headed blurs are boys while the light ones are girls.
I think the yellow billed one is my only gold phase, her speculum is dark brown with hints of green.
Not sure why my girls are so darkly hooded, I'm hoping that...
A lot of sitting by the feed pan. My ducks have gone through some terrible phases where they were smashing into fences and trampling each other to get away from me.
As time went on I just sat there by the feed pan for longer, and they eventually came up to me because they were hungry, then I...
Buff and saxony eggs, I have a feeling that very few will be pure buff since the Saxony drakes adore them, but I'm hatching for meat not pure ducklings to sell. I'm in the process of getting some new tractors built so that they can be separated.
Fo real😩
They are so smart, unlike most of my animals. I love how they know when they've done something naughty, it makes finding them out and scolding them so much fun😂
So, today I found the duck's secret nest...
Didn't realize til after I had grabbed all the eggs that their new nest is lined with and hidden under poison ivy 😩
I got this one from a friend, used only once and a good hatch rate (70% from new layers). I'm kind of a penny pincher so I was super excited to get it for only 100.
Some of y'all remember that when I originally acquired my Buff Orpington ducks I thought for sure that they were Saxony ducklings. Well as they grew it was obvious that they weren't and I was very disapointed. So I bought adult Saxony, and the plan was to get rid of my buff. But they're cute and...
By bill color three of mine are female and five are male, however one bill is still pink which means I can't know for sure.
I'll vent sex once they're about four weeks old and I can see clearly.
Yep! Here they are a few minutes ago.
Nine beautiful ducklings (do NOT tell Cordon otherwise, his feelings are valid and he feels very strongly that he is a welsh harlequin duck)
Her limping was better and then my drake got to her and it's been worse ever since. I soaked her leg in epsom salt today because it was kinda hot and a little swollen, she's still perky tho.