Chick doesn't know she's not 'one of the ducks'!

[229Mick]

Kind words, thanks!

 

[Sylvester017]

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Hope I tagged the right sylvester.
Hopefully they can help here. I've never had a broody, so I can't really offer anything more than I have.

Hi subhanalah - thanks for the referral but not sure who you referred us to on the "chick doesn't know she's not one of the ducks" thread? I don't want the person to think we're ignoring them but I have no idea who you referred.

Smiles

 

[subhanalah]

Hi subhanalah - thanks for the referral but not sure who you referred us to on the "chick doesn't know she's not one of the ducks" thread?  I don't want the person to think we're ignoring them but I have no idea who you referred.

Smiles

Oh great!
I don't remember either.

 

[Starfire669]

So I ended up getting a new batch of chicks after the spring fox got all of my last flock! When the feed store had its chicks it also gets ducks, so my wife and I had to have the 'I want ducks' conversation... of course she asked 'what if they are loud or messy??' to which I of course replied: 'then we kill them and eat them, no down side'.
So we got the ducks and they are getting along famously with their chicken cousins. Recently they got big enough to a) go outside and live in tier coop, and then b) wander the full (fenced) yard. So I started feeding them at the edge of our small pond, and putting out little water for them so they would be drawn to the pond to get their water, but also so the ducks would take to it. After about a week they did.
There is a shallow upper basin that has no fish in it, so they like that most. They can swim without being frightened by the brightly colored scary fish, as well as dive into the sediment that gathers there, for whatever is growing or hiding in there. Today they were up there and all their chicken friends were jealously walking along the as yet unfinished stone edge of the pond until one decided that if those 'chickens with the rounded beaks' can float in the pond, so can she. In the first picture below, you can just barely see her leaping from the stones into the pond. In the second, you can see her doing her best duck impression as she discovers that her belly doesn't make her float like her duck friends do!
Never seen anything like this, and since it made me laugh, I figured it might do the same for folks here.

Enjoy.

This is just too cute!

 

[Sylvester017]

Oh great!
I don't remember either.

That's funny! I can identify about the memory loss!

 

[Starfire669]

I picked up this 2 month old black Orp Roo today. He has never seen ducks or geese till he arrive at my house, but I guess he decided they were cooler than the chickens.

 

[subhanalah]

I picked up this 2 month old black Orp Roo today. He has never seen ducks or geese till he arrive at my house, but I guess he decided they were cooler than the chickens.

hahaha. Do you think it was an accident? Or was he quite purposeful in his actions? (Hot)

 

[Starfire669]

hahaha. Do you think it was an accident? Or was he quite purposeful in his actions? (Hot)

I didn't see him get in, but I saw him just chillin in the pool. He stayed in the pool for at least 5 minutes. I w old guess he was just that hot.

 

[Starfire669]

So this morning I was doing my morning chores, letting everyone out, feeding them, and scrubbing and filling their pools for the day. I had just finished cleaning the last pool and was heading to turn get the waterhose when I saw this.

 

[subhanalah]

So this morning I was doing my morning chores, letting everyone out, feeding them, and scrubbing and filling their pools for the day. I had just finished cleaning the last pool and was heading to turn get the waterhose when I saw this.

that's a mighty nice ducken you have there. Or would it be a chuck? Hahahaha.
I certainly hope we get pictures every time he does this lol.