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That's what I'm thinking. Here's a video I took yesterday that shows the pool that the two ducklings drowned in. The thought of them running around after bugs and lake flies just this morning makes me start sobbing all over again.

Jumping in and out. I have taken out the little pool, just a small metal pan from Tractor Supply. Now the remaining two will just have to make do with their plastic paint tray, which Mama Welshie keeps tipping over so most of the water spills out, which is why I got them something a little...

I am so very, very upset. I just found two of the ducklings dead in their pool, apparently drowned. It was the little yellow one and the little gray one. The two black ones seem to be doing fine. Mama Welshie doesn't seem to be acting any differently. I am just devastated and blaming myself. I...

Haven't been on in a while - super busy while we are working on buying our farm - but I wanted to post that Henry has been "doing his job" and first one of the Buffs helpfully went broody then Welshie decided to share a nest with her and now their are baby ducklings hatching!!!!! I'll post pics...

Henry is truly handsome. I've never seen anything like his coloring either! I can't wait to see what coloring/patterns any ducklings he and my girls might produce. I'm really looking forward to breeding him to some Golden Cascade females too, though I'm trying to be patient. I very much want to...

I've been so busy lately that I haven't really gotten any new photos or videos of Henry specifically - lots of the whole flock though, since like most of us, I am a little bit duck obsesses. :rolleyes: Henry is just such a good boy. A perfect fit for my girls! But here is a video of the flock...

Henry was shipped with a female but unfortunately she died. Just to be on the safe side, I had her autopsied and the results were inconclusive - sometimes it's just too stressful for adult ducks to be shipped, you know? Especially since she was also laying. So, the Holderread's are going to...

Henry is now fully integrated into the flock! He sleeps with the girls in the "big" duck house, spends all day with them, and has even switched over to eating their feed all by himself! [VIDEO] Whatever the girls do, Henry does too. Right down to their favorite activity - eating mud.

They really are! They are the only thing I'm going to miss when when we move to our farm.

That's why I didn't name of my girls. They were called Big Welshie and Little Welshie, etc. And even knowing that Little Welshie had too many problems to make it through the winter didn't make it any easier when she did die. I wasn't really planning on naming Henry, either. He was just going...

Yesterday, Henry got to hang out with the girls unsupervised all day. I peeked in on them quite often and everything went so well that we decided to let Henry sleep in the big duck house with the girls! Everyone seemed perfectly happy when I let them out this morning and Henry hasn't had any...

They really climb into your heart with those webbed little feet of theirs, don't they?

Since both you and @ViolinPlayer123 have both mentioned that she looks more like a Silver Appleyard, I googled images of SA females and you are right - she looks exactly like a SA! I bought all my girls as day-old sexed ducklings from Meyers and they don't carry SA, so this is very strange. I...

Yesterday, I decided to let Henry run around with the girls in our backyard. My husband was outside re-stapling part of the bird netting that had come loose, so that meant I would have help herding them all back into the pen if Henry didn't go back in with the other ducks. He seemed a little...

Out in the duck pen again. Here's the video I promised yesterday: [VIDEO] I spoke to Millie Holderread last night and she said that since Henry is used to eating pellets/crumbles, he probably doesn't realize that the cracked-type feed my girls have been thriving on is actually food! So I...

Grrr! Just lost my whole post!

Yes! He wiggles his butt all the time! He's my first drake so I don't know if it's a "boy thing" or his unique personality. I love listening to his lil froggy voice too!

Right now He's taking his third bath since I've been sitting with them - good ducky behavior so I'm pleased to see that. No green poops today that I could find - hurray! He ate all two dozen of his live goldfish today so at least he's eating those. The girls were disappointed that he didn't...

Just realized that I hadn't posted yesterday's progress report video, so here it is: [VIDEO]