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Good luck with the eggs and keep us updated please! :fl

And finally: I was running late on Wednesday morning (2020-06-17), so the ducks were waiting impatiently at the door to get out:

Fast forward to yesterday and they have grown into the largest and most self sufficient ducklings i have ever seen: They are just three weeks old and able to reach into the pellet feeder, the waterer and the supper-bowl! They run faster than some of the grown-up ducks (for example the White...

Three days earlier, June 8th, it was unbearable hot and everyducky was outside, trying to find some shade and pant of some heat.

This are the ducklings, exploring everything on their own on June 11th. Momma Pinball wasn't caring too much about them anymore, but the rest of the flock was carefully watching.

A lot has happened during the last two weeks: I was too busy with my job and my garden to post anything here, apologies! - The ducklings have out-grown the weeds here!

The fluff-butts are now one week old and have grown significantly! Today they weathered some severe thunderstorms here like the pro's: Pinball is at least keeping here babies warm during the night, with a little help of Aunt Pompom:

Yes, but remember how she cried when i came too close to her nest. Guess she thinks after hatching out the little ones her job is done. Look how little she paid attention to the ducklings yesterday: Today was

Pinball Duck has no motherly feelings for her ducklings at all, we got a heavy thunderstorm here this evening, she and the other ducks were safely and dry sitting under the roof overhand, watching me running through the rain trying to catch four completely soaked ducklings. Had i dared to catch...

Blackmailed by a Duck!!! Today Pinball Duck decided she stayed inside of the duck-house long enough! So in the morning she jumped the fence while i was letting the ducks out and then just stood there, glaring at me as if she was saying »Humon tear down this wall!« - Or else you have to take...

Today Momma duck left the nest with the two remaining eggs inside. Both have not pipped internally, so i assume the embryos have died and i won't do an eggtopsy. :sick I will just bury those two eggs into my new sweet potato bed.

Before i was able to sit down with my Duck family, i had to do the daily duck chores, collecting the eggs, filling up water and food, all the time being followed by Momma ducks eyes. But after i sat down the small waterer for the ducklings and their food, all distrust went away, she even ate...

Today i spent a beautiful hour in the duck house, sitting next to Momma Duck Pinball and her four ducklings, watching other members of the Duck family come into the house to grab a bite and a sip of water, then walk back out. All while four little duckies were catching flies and curiously...

More Videos are in the making, but i must finish the raised bed for the sweet potatoes while the weather and my job allows!

So far none of the other three eggs has hatched and i can't see if they have pipped without risking my fingers and/or other valuable body parts: Pinball (Momma) has turned into a bolt cutter on legs and the other two ducks are vicious like Smaug and his (so far undiscovered) twin brother. I can...

Mine can »fly« too, that's how they get into the tomato plants, but they don't do that inside of the house. And they're clumsy flyers and don't ask about the touch-down…

It turned out to be surprisingly simple to fence off a little nursery for Momma and Babies: Just to fence gates, latched together with some cable ties and…

Pictures? Videos? :pop

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No candling of eggs necessary anymore! 🎈🎉🎆🎊🎇 💛At least two little ducklings have hatched this afternoon 💛