2019 Spring Ducklings are here!

[WannaBeHillBilly]

@WannaBeHillBilly your details, stories, stats, and pictures are getting me through duckling withdrawal . If things go right we can go for it again in the summer of 2020.
Will the updates end when you have to go back to work ?

I will update this thread, the duckling album and the duckling-article as long as i find the time to do so. Right now i am adding an additional page to the article for the self-made garage-brooder…
Updates will become less frequent with the ducklings becoming more and more mature, just because their life will be less eventful. But the next major updates will be the re-assembly of the old chicken-house plus a self-made extension, because that house is too small for 14 duckies.
Sometime in March they will move out of the garage into that new home where they will be in permanent contact with the grown up ducks.
Later this year they finally will be cut loose to run around with the other ducks and devastating the land around the humons house. - By this time they are no longer ducklings, but ducks and this thread will become much less important. But there will be new stories about them!

I just thought about: That 700 grams White Layer is almost as heavy as a fully grown mallard duck!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Updated the duckling article with an additional page for the garage-brooder. Have fun reading!

 

[Texag87]

I read somewhere that healthy ducklings will be 7 times what their weight was on day one three weeks from hatching. We could see that especially with the Pekins. When I would come home from work and jump right into cleaning the brooder bathtub,they looked bigger in the evening than in the morning. Brooding was three and a half weeks of work/joy. We could not believe that all nine made it to Granny’s to live in a better environment. I am still grateful to Magnolia Ducks for taking our prettiest drake. We miss him but the pics she sends helps.

 

[Texag87]

 

[WVduckchick]

Am i allowed to add the pictures you've posted to the Daisy/Amelia/Forst Album? - Btw: You have write access to that album too.

Sure! (I wouldn’t load the ones with humans included, just for their privacy lol)
And yes, i saw that you gave me permissions, thank you.
She is more than willing to share info about the duckling, I just usually have to ask her for updates.

 

[quackiemama]

You are too kind about it.

I have not seen a Piggly Wiggly in years. Yes you are right low quality bread there

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I read somewhere that healthy ducklings will be 7 times what their weight was on day one three weeks from hatching. We could see that especially with the Pekins. When I would come home from work and jump right into cleaning the brooder bathtub,they looked bigger in the evening than in the morning. Brooding was three and a half weeks of work/joy. We could not believe that all nine made it to Granny’s to live in a better environment. I am still grateful to Magnolia Ducks for taking our prettiest drake. We miss him but the pics she sends helps.

Well, seven times the weight in three weeks? - If you open the duckling spreadsheet, you can see that even the slowest growing duckling, the yellow-ringed Magpie, has almost tenfolded her weight. The fastest growing has almost twentyfolded her weight.
But these are domesticated ducks, it very likely is different with domesticated or wild Mallard ducks, they will grow slower.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

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Rouen ducks? - They look to large for Mallards…
Beautiful birds! I love the sparkling blue!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Sure! (I wouldn’t load the ones with humans included, just for their privacy lol)
And yes, i saw that you gave me permissions, thank you.
She is more than willing to share info about the duckling, I just usually have to ask her for updates.

I saw you have already uploaded the picture, thank you very much. Now it's my duty to create the article page for Daisy/Amelia/Forest…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I have not seen a Piggly Wiggly in years. Yes you are right low quality bread there

Piggly Wiggly is nice! They have good prices and during the summer months they sell local fruits and vegetables, which i appreciate very much.
With the bread, my colleagues often ask me »What is typically German Food« and all i come back with is the bread. There is really some culture about bread in Germany, we have countless different types of bread and very few people buy it in supermarkets (Aldi!) because the quality there is so poor.
The typical stereotypes of "German" food, the "Bratwurst" with "Sauerkraut" are not typical German. Sausage recipes have been invented all over Europe (Polish Kielbasa and Romanian Carnati, for example) and Sauerkraut is popular almost everywhere. And also beer isn't special for Germany, think about Budweiser from the Czech republic…
But the bread is really unique in Germany! If you ever travel to Germany try a »Brötchen mit Schinken« (Bread-roll with ham)! - Now i'm hungry…