Da' Cute and Cuddly Call Duck thread!

[Amiga]

It was about four weeks between the time the Runners started playing hop on top and the first egg. Another six weeks before everyone was laying.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Wobs n' Bean have been mating like crazy! I'm getting so impatient, I just want this lil; birb to lay...

What are you going to do with it?

 

[Julie Birb]

Wobs n' Bean have been mating like crazy! I'm getting so impatient, I just want this lil; birb to lay... 

as far as you can tell has he hit the mark?

 

[Tevyes Dad]

It was about four weeks between the time the Runners started playing hop on top and the first egg. Another six weeks before everyone was laying.

Yup, I would agree! With 11 'lings hatched the same day, I had between 1 and two months from first egg to full production. Plus my older girls who were hatched end of July/ beginning of Aug, they didn't start laying until Mid-may of the following year (the exact day I got the ducklings). So @Amykins with a sample of 1, you don't know if you are at the beginning or end of that line. Bean will put out an egg soon and it will be beautiful.

Quote from "The Princess Bride":
Miracle Max: You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.

 

[buff goose guy]

So I had a chocolate bibbed call duck fly into my pond with some of the wild mallards

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this was as close as I could get

 

[Julie Birb]

So I had a chocolate bibbed call duck fly into my pond with some of the wild mallards

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this was as close as I could get

Dang phone won't open those pic links. I would hemorrhage if I saw a call duck in the wild. In your opinion do you think the mallards adopted him? Do ducks do that?

 

[buff goose guy]

i have no idea. I guess they could have adopted him , he seems to be with a mallard female almost twice his size, so it is likely that he got loose from a farm and flew off with some mallards.

 

[Fizzgig]

So sweet of you to help out this poor creature who needed help. I don't think sitting between 2 cats would have helped speed it to recovery. Please keep us updated on how it's doing. Is it a Mallard?

No she was a pacific black duck and she has made a full recovery. The rescue/release folks came and picked her up once she was well enough to move from inside duck to outside quarintine
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[Julie Birb]

i have no idea. I guess they could have adopted him , he seems to be with a mallard female almost twice his size, so it is likely that he got loose from a farm and flew off with some mallards. 

Wow. I am still amazed. I am glad he's with a flock. Prolly a better chance of survival in a group. I hope so. How cute he's with a female twice his size. I wonder if he will be able to mount her and since I know nothing about a call and a wild mallard mix I reckon the babies/adults will be so cute.

 

[Julie Birb]

No she was a pacific black duck and she has made a full recovery.  The rescue/release folks came and picked her up once she was well enough to move from inside duck to outside quarintine
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Congratulations on a great job you did rehabbing her. I am so impressed.