Counted 13 instead of 12 this morning....? updated from blizzard.

[KansasKid]

I imagine that she has been in there with them since tuesday when they were last out. they like to go in single file (haha got my ducks in a row) and it makes it easy to count them every night (well at least the nights they free range). Well with any luck she will be fit as a fiddle, stay and get along with the rest of my flock. And if she decides to move on o well.

 

[exoticduckluvr]

cool new bloodline

 

[shelleyd2008]

Maybe she's a 'domestic' wild that someone donated to you? Don't wild ducks fly south for the winter?

 

[BirdBrain]

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I thought they migrated south in the winter too, but I was at the library in the middle of Anchorage, Alaska last week and saw hundreds of mallards sitting around on the ice and playing in an open body of water. I was very surprised!!

 

[mrsengeseth]

we've got geese and mallards at a nearby park that never got the fly south memo either.

enjoy the new duck!! How awesome is that??

 

[Tbird84]

That's pretty cool. I had a similar though not as cool thing happen with my chickens. The flock got dispersed by a dog one day. They were so scared that several didn't come back. I was out until well after dark for two days looking for everyone. I finally had to accept that I was left with 17 chickens. Fast forward almost 2wks later, I am counting everyone when I am putting them to bed and I keep getting 18! One of my Barred Rock hens came back from Lord knows where. I haven't seen any wild ducks around my property, just Coopers hawks

And they are most certainly not welcome.

 

[ourlittleflock]

do you still have your new flock member?

 

[KansasKid]

She's still here. Past two days i've let em all out to free range and she's put herself up with the rest of them. She is a little flighty when go to shut the door and hasn't got the memo about there being a net in between here and the open sky but other than that she's been calm and forages with the rest of them.

 

[desertdarlene]

She knows she's got it good. Plus, you let her out during the day, so she can leave any time she wants. She might leave, one day, but I think she likes your ducks, so she's staying.

 

[boykin2010]

How about a picture of this duck