2019 Spring Ducklings are here!

[Miss Lydia]

They are precious Did that little tiny one hatch later or is it just a pee wee?

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

You can see by my avatar that George loves his pond. This morning I let them out of the coop and George waddled quickly toward the pond rasping "Mini, let's go mate, let's go mate". Over the side of the pond they go and are immediately still and quiet. They are walking on water! How did that happen? What do we do now? Run to the Humon rasp and quack loudly. Humon must fix pond! Their first experience with ice. Solved as all problems with a bowl of water and a handful of mealworms. As I went off into the distance I could here George rasp "Hey Mini, I bet we could mate in this waterbowl"

 

[Texag87]

You can see by my avatar that George loves his pond. This morning I let them out of the coop and George waddled quickly toward the pond rasping "Mini, let's go mate, let's go mate". Over the side of the pond they go and are immediately still and quiet. They are walking on water! How did that happen? What do we do now? Run to the Humon rasp and quack loudly. Humon must fix pond! Their first experience with ice. Solved as all problems with a bowl of water and a handful of mealworms. As I went off into the distance I could here George rasp "Hey Mini, I bet we could mate in this waterbowl"

Are you going to have to put him in drake jail ?

 

[quackiemama]

I was planning to put these guys outside last weekend, but saw these horrid temperatures coming, so they are still inside for a few more days.
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I on right on the border of MD and WV and we are having the same dang weather here. I am over it and the frozen ground. At least the sun is shining I suppose, for now....

 

[Texag87]

George never had that experience before because we dumped the trays every night and we only had a couple freezes in November and December

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I have been watching. He doesn't seem to bother her at night. Just feeling chipper first thing in the morning. And she is faster than him on the ground and can mostly be caught just when she wants too. But not much pond time for her, practically a sitting duck in the pond. It is funny to watch her to on her tiptoes to get a drink and he runs up behind her to try to tip her in the pond. I think jail can wait till the ducklings go outside in a week or so.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

George never had that experience before because we dumped the trays every night and we only had a couple freezes in November and December

Despite being fairly close together, I am warmer than you. This only happens once every three years or so.

 

[Miss Lydia]

@Magnolia Ducks hows your fencing working?

 

[MIDuckLady]

I am working as a consultant for a large soft- and hardware company and i have to write detailed reports, document measurements and i'm doing that for 20 years now. My wife calls me a »control freak«…

Ha - thought so. I just retired after 30 years in IT - but my husband still works for IBM.
Looking out of the home office windows to watch our ducks at play in the pond is the best stress reduction ever.
We have a small 6 acre hobby farm and are awaiting incubation of eggs in neighbors incubator along with many donated to the 4-H hatching program. We are hoping to get a few more Saxony hens to replace those we lost to botulism last summer. Fingers crossed.
Currently have only 8 ducks.
I love your posts

 

[Miss Lydia]

Beautiful place @MIDuckLady