Da' Cute and Cuddly Call Duck thread!

[Spyderk117]

she has to have a bandage on coz she's got angel wing she hates it lol
View attachment 1036649she is almost fully feathered

The wrap looks good! Have you heard any quacking yet?

 

[Hybridchucks]

not yet

 

[Hybridchucks]

thank u!

 

[MagpieDucks]

Just a wee little bit...

 

[shawluvsbirds]

ya a a a a h! I found. Another call duck thread ! Great pics

 

[Ravynscroft]

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

Johnn, is Phoebe Aleutian color? She is gorgeous!

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?"

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I love that little smile.

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She takes such nice portraits, too.

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Might let her try a second time, was this her first try? I found with my most typey line (Snowy) the girls kinda played around with being broody the first time, but the 2nd they fully committed and did extremely well...

She is so photogenic! I know @Ravynscroft 's girls are all kinds of broody. She even has some double decker moms to be going on.

Oh, right, I forgot about Ravyn's broody calls, too! Don't mind me, sleep deprivation has me a little loopy at the moment...

lol... no biggie... I think I have more broody Calls right now than I have ever had of broodys, period!

Hiding in the compost...

Double stacked...

Even a Trifecta of broodys, lol...

And Cuteness, who played at broody last year without success, but this year she was very, very successful...

Yeah, I think Trudi's just an oddball. I have a few chicken hens that are like that, not quite sure why they want to sit in the nest, but they definitely want to, and they don't need any eggs under them, thank you. So maybe it's just that I attract odd birds. View attachment 1036671







"You forgot about ME?! HOW DARE YOU!"

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That is my all time fave pic of Crash!!

Here's my Crash being cute, lol...

 

[Hybridchucks]

@Ravynscroft are those your dux? they are BEAUTIFUL!!!

 

[Johnn]

Johnn, is Phoebe Aleutian color? She is gorgeous!

She's a Silver Call . Cute pictures by the way!

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?"

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I love that little smile.

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She takes such nice portraits, too.

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Thank you! Mine have all been good broodies but Miley was a terrible mother but she seems to have picked back up now. Think they just get confused when they're young. How old is your girl sitting? My girl Maggie is still sat on her eggs but they're all dead. She doesn't seem to be able to keep them warm enough. Wonder if its because she hasn't plucked her chest feathers. Nice pics!

 

[Hybridchucks]

Are they your calls and pics @Johnn ???

 

[Johnn]

Are they your calls and pics @Johnn ???

Which ones??