Absolutely correct! - I snuck into the duck house just after dusk, Katharina was having a snack of cracked-corn on the work platform aaand - she saw me… Next thing i remember was wings flapping, a pair of pliers squeezing down on my right ear, feathers everywhere and my shoulders being »massaged« with a wire brush… What a dedicated momma! - Of course i was just wearing my shorts! Now my ear is blue and my back is full of scratches. All ducks were yelling at me when i got out of the duck house, i felt soo bad!
Peep, peep, peep! Today during the weekly duck house cleanup I noticed that Katharina did not covered her nest when she went outside. Curiously I took a close look and to my horror I then saw what looked like cracks in two eggs. I picked up one of the eggs and 》peep, peep, peeps《 Not a crack, an external pip! Exciting weekend...
Made some hasty preparations in the duck-house! What did our parent's do in the past when the whole family came visiting? - They turned the living room into a make-shift camping area for the kids: I have brought one of my fence-gates into the house and with a little TLC if fits between the master- and the kid's bedroom: I haven't installed it for this night, i doubt the 'lings will hatch overnight. And i placed the empty one gallon waterer inside the master-bedroom so that Katharina gets used to its sight and isn't scared. And there she is, sitting on her peeps:
And of course there is a big party going on in the modified living room everybody is eating and drinking and squacking… All while Katharina has her privacy (in the box at the left):
And boy was i wrong! Let me present you the proud Mama Katharina and her first duckling, sitting right in front of her: Nona is a great Aunt-Duck! She was helping Katharina this morning keeping the other ducks away from the little one. I filled Water in the 1 Gallon dispenser and brought some meal-worms to Mama and Aunt Nona and closed the gate between the two bedrooms: Right now i am reviewing the video, recorded by the DuckyCam overnight, already found some interesting things going on, a scare at 2:30am, probable hatch at 3:20am and a sneaky Aunty at 3:30am… The DuckyCam is still rolling, i will cut and upload the video from tonight later, so stay tuned…