And I just bought 4 Cayuga ducklings at my favorite feed store. This afternoon. Yup, this very afternoon.
Y'see, I went to the feed store with a dozen fertile eggs for an employee there who has already bought 3 standard cochin chicks I hatched. (The feed store doesn't carry cochins at all, and she has some that are "the standard black" as she put it, and wanted some color. Welllllll... I happened to have just hatched silver and gold laced cochins that particular week... She and I talk often once they found out I hatched Trader Joe's chicks.)
Enough back story about the reason I was going to the feed store. Louie my Cayuga drake is a widower, since his wife Thelma went broody in a secret yet unprotected place and a predator got her about four days into her hidden "confinement." I have 3 call ducklings in a brooder right now, but I had four call ducks my landlady made me get rid of (I found a great home with kfchicken). Call ducks are loud, and two of them were pure white. Their activity and noise narked me out.
I needed some bales of pine shavings for the new coop under construction. On sale, got 'em. But there were Cayuga ducklings there too!!! Straight run, of course. I figure with four of 'em, I should get at least one "wife" for Louie. Cayuga ducks are VERY quiet, plus they are Ninja stealth ducks, being all black.
AND my landlady has been worried about Thelma; I haven't yet told her of Thelma's demise. It's a plan.
My 3 call ducklings are a couple of weeks old now. The 4 Cayuga ducklings are 4 days old...
I didn't plan on buying them when I left for the feed store, honest!
Y'see, I went to the feed store with a dozen fertile eggs for an employee there who has already bought 3 standard cochin chicks I hatched. (The feed store doesn't carry cochins at all, and she has some that are "the standard black" as she put it, and wanted some color. Welllllll... I happened to have just hatched silver and gold laced cochins that particular week... She and I talk often once they found out I hatched Trader Joe's chicks.)
Enough back story about the reason I was going to the feed store. Louie my Cayuga drake is a widower, since his wife Thelma went broody in a secret yet unprotected place and a predator got her about four days into her hidden "confinement." I have 3 call ducklings in a brooder right now, but I had four call ducks my landlady made me get rid of (I found a great home with kfchicken). Call ducks are loud, and two of them were pure white. Their activity and noise narked me out.
I needed some bales of pine shavings for the new coop under construction. On sale, got 'em. But there were Cayuga ducklings there too!!! Straight run, of course. I figure with four of 'em, I should get at least one "wife" for Louie. Cayuga ducks are VERY quiet, plus they are Ninja stealth ducks, being all black.
AND my landlady has been worried about Thelma; I haven't yet told her of Thelma's demise. It's a plan.
My 3 call ducklings are a couple of weeks old now. The 4 Cayuga ducklings are 4 days old...
I didn't plan on buying them when I left for the feed store, honest!