Can we add a stray duckling?

[lina500]

The little one's feathers are growing in black and it looks like he is going to have a big white bib. A lot of the ducks here are black and white, so maybe they are a similar breed to black Swedish.

 

[elsfieldchickens]

hows the little guy doing?

 

[lina500]

She's doing great! She just started laying eggs a few weeks ago and is a very happy little ducky.

 

[lina500]

Soooo....my boyfriend came home tonight with a guilty look on his face, and had a duckling in his hands. He was on a six-hour bus ride home and when they stopped at the half-way point, he saw a duck farm with beautiful white and grey ducks with green heads, so he bought one and had it sit on his lap for the rest of the bus ride. So now we have a little duckling, she's between two and three weeks old, I'm guessing. She is crying, though, I think she misses the rest of her duckling friends. I will post photos tomorrow. Praying she's a girl and the other ducks and geese are friendly.

 

[elsfieldchickens]

She sounds lovely!

 

[lina500]

Here she is! We vent-sexed her and are pretty sure she's a girl (thank goodness). She is much more upright than our other ducks and has much longer legs, so I wonder if she has some runner in her. She still misses the other ducklings that she was living with and is quite lonely, but I'm hoping my other ducks accept her sooner rather than later. Should I be worried my geese will hurt her? The geese love the other ducks (or at least they all take naps together every day)