baby duck with lots of problems

[pattyhen]

You're welcome. Cool, I am sure I will have company. They are welcome to come into the tent and spoon with me at bedtime.

Topper!! You had your share. I thinks it's funny you picked her up and she got mad. And then Donald glaring at you is funny, too. As I keep saying, your stories are always so entertaining.

This morning after I fed Topper, Dee and Freckles in the side yard I was wondering if Topper would come to the front yard to pig out on Sherry's food. She didn't show up at all. The little brat remembered yesterday. I was going to hold her again if she did. Freckles did come over to share with Sherry and that is fine. Topper eats like a vacum cleaner and Freckles daintly picks at the eggs like Sherry does.

Patty

 

[JadeComputerGal]

Oh I know exactly what your saying I have a Batam hen right now broody and she is sitting on nothing makes me feel sorry for her but eggs I will not give her . Chicks either. lol

Oh, c'mon, Miss Lydia. Be a sport and give her some eggs to hatch. We all need a purpose in life, and chickens are people too!

 

[pattyhen]

Awe, you are welcome. Please tell her. It is cute Clyde loves her. Is he quite a bit bigger than she is?

Haha. Running shoes. I believe it. I have heard that ducks can run and dart and zip. I'd still give it a try and scoop her up and love squeeze her round duck body and kiss her face.

Clyde is probably double the size of Sherry. She does have a bald place on the back of her neck but I think that is from C.P. and Donald. By the time those two mount Sherry Clyde is hobbling over trying to get them off of her. Then they get in a shoving match, Clyde trying to push them off of her while they are still holding on to her neck. Clyde tries to protect her but he is slow getting there.

Sherry would be easier to catch then Que Sera. That girl knows how to learn one direction then totally turn and go in the other one. To Que Sera it is a game and she loves the chase.

Patty

 

[pattyhen]

That is the way it is meant to be. Roos protecting their flocks. and you know what people complain about how loud roosters are, well they ought to hear my girls when egg songs are going on my goodness are they loud. and of course Rufus is singing right along with them. lol

Oh yes the egg song.

They have to tell the world they laid an egg . Hubbie will say you better check on the chickens their out there squaking. I go out there and the whole coop is anouncing the arrival of an EGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

Patty

 

[Debs Flock]

LOL...never knew there's an egg song. Do ducks do that, too?

 

[pattyhen]

We go to the feed store all the time during the couple of spring months they have chicks and ducklings. I don't buy ducklings from them, but I just love to go see all the sweet little babies. Hubby isn't at all fazed by it. He hates chickens.

Well if he can resist the baby chicks at the feed store then there might be no hope for him ever loving a chicken. Did he have a bad experience as a child with a chicken? It must be some deep rooted thing that is making him resist wanting a chick.

Patty

 

[pattyhen]

LOL...never knew there's an egg song. Do ducks do that, to.


My ducks have never done the egg song before. Thank goodness they don't.

Patty

 

[JadeComputerGal]

Well if he can resist the baby chicks at the feed store then there might be no hope for him ever loving a chicken. Did he have a bad experience as a child with a chicken? It must be some deep rooted thing that is making him resist wanting a chick.

Patty

He grew up on a chicken farm and had to spend a lot of his time working in the chicken houses rather than being out with other boys doing whatever it is boys do. The only place on our property he allows chickens is in a freezer or on his dinner plate.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh yes the egg song.

They have to tell the world they laid an egg . Hubbie will say you better check on the chickens their out there squaking. I go out there and the whole coop is anouncing the arrival of an EGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

Patty

My goodness the egg song goes on and on too doesn't it. lol
Never heard any of my ducks and geese sing the egg song they are actually pretty secretive about their egg laying [probably afraid if they let us know where they laid we'll take their egg].Mine anyway.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I know what you mean about the egg song! They are soo loud. I don't have a roo, no one will let me get one, I want one though because we have a river down a ways from us so there's always osprey and Eagles flying overhead, you wouldn't think they would bug anything but fish but boy did an osprey dive at us one day! Then there's a cooper's hawk nest a few blocks from us, it used to land in our neighbors trees to watch the chickens. Dave would alert me but the chickens never got the message of danger. Now I don't let them out if we're not home just in case it decided to show up again. Ducks though are sky watchers, no matter what gender, and i can leave them out during the day because they know of danger and keep each other safe *knock on wood*

My bantam game roo has actually jumped into the air after a hawk before I don't know what he'd have done with him if he'd caught him. and he has managed to avert Hawks that were after him too. Getting them away from his ladies , when he makes the warning call everyone ducks under a bush. Even the geese look up to see what it's all about.

I'm pretty sure a hawk is what got my EE a couple weeks ago. we have alot of them living in these mountains.