I quit getting notifications for this thread for a while and just saw it pop back up on the home page today. Never going to get caught up, but love all the duck love.
It's only a matter of time....
I saw someone do this with BBW turkeys once and the turkeys didn't seem to suffer from it, but I am not comfortable doing it. I put large potentially flappy birds under my arm so my shoulder is directly over the center of their wings and use the other arm to hold...
Aren't they?! We enjoy them so much!
The two in my profile pic are part of my original flock of five.
April: a singleton hatchling when I tried hatching without misting the eggs. Found out that doesn't work for waterfowl in my home's environment. She has been the sweetest though. She's...
Ducks were our first birds. We started with 6 welsh harlequin eggs from a farm down the road. 5 of them developed and hatched. We added some pekins the next year and a pair of runners and our WHs also went broody (and left their babies to me to raise - lol). We got up to 21 for a while, but...