Da' Cute and Cuddly Call Duck thread!

[casportpony]

Tried to get some pictures of the feed store's Call Ducks, but I forgot to take a decent camera and the one in my phone is junk!

-Kathy

 

[AmandaVirginia]

3 of my hens. Not sure what breed the cinnamon coloured hen is called. If someone could please tell me that would be much appreciated.

Your girls are beautiful!!

 

[JLynnsDuckies]

Sorry for the vague post, I was just MAJORLY overwhelmed yesterday! I was having a flare-up and DH was out all night Friday, so it was just me, a lotta pain and two hyper ducks who do NOT get along. I was about to tear my hair out!


It's always nice for a duck to have constant access, yes. Mine are house ducks, but I try to give them bath time each and every day. And yes, ALL ducks are messy, even the tiny ones!

Hopefully you and your hyper ducks are having a much better day today.

 

[buff goose guy]

Finally started on the aviary today yay!!! we have one wall covered in the chicken wire so far and i hope we can get the whole thing done in 2 weeks because by that time they should fully have molted into their juvenil feathers

 

[htyrrell]

I have my eggs on lockdown!!!!

 

[casportpony]

I have my eggs on lockdown!!!!

-Kathy

 

[Amykins]

Hopefully you and your hyper ducks are having a much better day today.

Hils was home all day so it went better, yes. Mostly I was just feeling down since that was the day I learned Pancake passed away and it roughed me up a bit. So this means that none of the calls I hatched survived. I thought for sure he'd be okay...I'm positively gutted and I feel like a total failure. I didn't learn until way too late that the breeder of those chocolates is a terrible man who keeps his birds confined in tiny cages and were never bred with fresh stock for the 20+ years he's been doing this. So for all I know, my ducklings all had some sort of fatal defect as the result of who knows how many generations of inbreeding.

Admittedly I don't know if that's what killed lil' Cakey or even his sister Milkshake, but I can't shake the terrible thought. And if that IS what happened then I feel nine kinds of rotten for giving him away to such a lovely person if he was a ticking time bomb, you know? I could have spared myself, my husband and my dear acquaintance a lot of heartbreak if I'd never hatched those eggs. It's hard to understate just how much I loved those babies. I've only hatched a handful of calls, and since I can't have kids I kinda bonded with them way more than is probably healthy. Mostly I just feel awful for Alicia. I can't even imagine what she's going through. And I feel like it could be my fault.

 

[Mccluckers]

I do sorry a amykins,it wasn't your fault,how where you supposed to know thud would happen.

What was the name of the breeder do everybody knows not to buy from them?

 

[Amykins]

I do sorry a amykins,it wasn't your fault,how where you supposed to know thud would happen.

What was the name of the breeder do everybody knows not to buy from them?

I know, but I can't shake the guilt all the same. Hindsight can be a double-edged knife that way sometimes. :/ If it were just my own tragedy that'd be one thing, but I know Alicia simply adored Pancake because he was such a cute and friendly lil' bugger. So I have to take at least some of the blame.

As for the breeder, I wish I knew his name...18Angovem does; he got the birds that my eggs came from. Poor guy didn't know either, he's never hatched eggs from his chocolates before. He's the one who found out about his cruel ways, he had called him after Milkshake died trying to get some clues as to what may have happened to her because he knew how utterly destroyed I was at her passing. Ang's a good friend like that.

 

[Mccluckers]

But still don't worry I'm sure Alicia understands! And nobody is to blame how could anyone have known apart from this stupid breeder.

As for the breeder, people make me sick!