2018 Hatchalong

[Iain Utah]

Speaking of birds hatching out their own babies... our momma duck hatched a dozen babies yesterday. Today, she is already taking them all around pasture.

 

[Sarkchick]

Speaking of birds hatching out their own babies... our momma duck hatched a dozen babies yesterday. Today, she is already taking them all around pasture.
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My goodness. That's a lot of babies. Congratulations.

 

[Sarkchick]

Is she Ancona? She sure looks proud

 

[Iain Utah]

Momma is 1/2 ancona, 1/4 crested blue, 1/4 pekin. Father of babies is ancona. She is a very proud momma, and doing a great job keeping them together... and there are actually 13 babies (I missed one earlier)!

Definitely a lot of ducklings! Up to 25 total. Fortunately, no more ducklings expected in the near future, and luckily have requests for ducklings already.

 

[Sarkchick]

She really is beautiful. I'd love to have that many but no room here. People in SE Arkansas do not keep ducks and I can give away chickens. So for now I have 18 ducks (Pekin, Runner, Blu Swiss and Magpie) , 4 geese
(2 Toulouse female and 2 Toulouse/African mix ganders) and many mixed chickens

I wish you luck with all your lings. And thank you for helping today

 

[Sarkchick]

Look what I found. Thank you Iain Utah for all your help

 

[Sarkchick]

I just realized that my Toulouse girls had black beaks when young
I can not remember when they turned orange.
I was thinking the gosling would look African because of the bill color. But it is 3/4 Toulouse.

 

[Iain Utah]

Congrats! They are adorable!! Toulouse geese are the best brooders and parents I've ever had.

Their beaks will slowly turn orange in a few weeks.

 

[Sarkchick]

Thanks. She has been great. Not sure about the beak, the gander is Toulouse/African mix
Moms started changing about 3-4 weeks I think. So I don't have long to wait to see which breed it follows

 

[Sarkchick]

I just realized I posted the picture of 2 goslings on wronge thread. One of those is the mom of the gosling just hatched. First of 4 ??? I hope