Da' Cute and Cuddly Call Duck thread!

[Hybridchucks]

thank you! love these pics you are a great photographer! xxx what type of cam do you have?

 

[Hybridchucks]

heres my call ling Pippa!

 

[Johnn]

thank you! love these pics


you are a great photographer! xxx what type of cam do you have?

Thank you! I use my iPhone 6s xx

heres my call ling Pippa!

Aw she's cute!

 

[Johnn]

Well today was interesting. Both phoebe and Maggie started sitting a while ago but the Drake died a few weeks before they started sitting. So I bought them some fertile eggs which were due to hatch on the 5th of June. I left some of phoebes eggs in the nest so it didn't feel like such a dramatic drop of eggs when I put only a couple fertile ones in. Anyways I've been really busy at work recently so don't always go find Phoebe as she's sitting in someone else's field. I always go find her though if I don't see her after two days. I realised today it had been a couple days so I went to see her only to find her missing and what I thought was an eaten egg in the nest and a couple cold ones. I assumed the worst and thought something had killed her and ate some eggs. I searched everywhere for her when I found her right the way across the field she was sitting in with 3 little babies! She must have laid the eggs soon after the Drake went!! Wasn't expecting that at all! Just hope she hasn't been off the others too long. The broody chickens were happy to take them!

Happy ducks

The dinosaurs and Phoebe

 

[Hybridchucks]

GORGEOUS!!!!!

 

[GaChicklette]

I'm so glad that she is safe and the ducklings too! Papa Drake is watching proudly across the rainbow bridge.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Oh, Johnn, your call ducks are just so stinkin' cute! I was just popping over to ask about experiences with broody call ducks--I forgot about your girls. So it is possible! My Trudi went broody and I thought I'd let her hatch with the hopes that she would hatch another hen or two because Malcolm is just getting too much for her alone and Crash won't be convinced to go live with them. Sadly, I think Trudi's quickly proving that she has no idea what she's doing and I'm pretty sure she's managed to kill any chance of her last egg (out of the 7 she started with...) developing. I don't think she's been turning it at all, and she does things like letting it stick out from under her so it isn't actually keeping warm at all. There's only one egg, so no reason why she can't keep it under herself! Last night, she was sitting a few feet away from her nest with the egg sticking out from under her again. She somehow managed to push it out of the nest and just followed it to where it stopped rolling, I guess! Oh, well. Looks like if I want more calls, I'm just going to have to get out the incubator and do all the work myself!

Anyway, here's a few pictures of Crashie being a stinker. Crash says, "Hellooo?"

I love that little smile.

She takes such nice portraits, too.

 

[Hybridchucks]

LOVELY PICS AND BEAUTIFUL BURD!!!! @Julie Birb you need to come here!!!

 

[Hybridchucks]

can i post another pic of my call "ling"???

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

can i post another pic of my call "ling"???

Oh, please do!