Deb's Flock - new ducklings March 2016 (pic heavy)

[Julie Birb]

Just for you!

(I feel myself getting mushier then a month old banana- look at the webbers and billz and fluffs and spots and and and andand and DUCKNESS!)

BANTI, I just came across this. All I can say is WOW. I held my breath over all of these baby pics. You totally get why I love ducklings so much. I love them. They are tiny, ROUND AND SWEET FACED AND WEBS. THEIR WEBS ARE SOOOOOPER CUTE. Thank you for the treat. I am gonna go back and stare and save.

 

[Julie Birb]

Just for you!

(I feel myself getting mushier then a month old banana- look at the webbers and billz and fluffs and spots and and and andand and DUCKNESS!)

Went thru again and saved and now I am teary eyed. Such wonderful innocence.

 

[Amiga]

Here - recent

 

[Tevyes Dad]

Here - recent

That was great! I am guessing @room onthebroom saw the one where you let your flock into the garden. As an owner of a flock of 12 (soon to be 15

) with 4 runners myself, when you first let them out, I thought to myself, "what a racket..." Of course my flock is just as loud when they see Yvonne or I show up and think we might have treats. To someone with a smaller flock, I could see that being fairly overwhelming so I didn't want "room" to rule out the joy we both know Runners are based on thinking that noise level was the constant "normal".

 

[room onthebroom]

Here - recent

Wow that was very mellow! My kids & I have watched as many of your videos as we can find, because they really are funny! We actually watched the one in the garden 3x because it was hysterical. Ultimately my favorite was the one where they bustle out into the snow & cram onto the hay pile looking totally confused then rush back into the house. We could hear them all saying, "No!No!Nope!Nope!No!No!Nope!No!"

Good to know that's not an all day thing & that they're not as tall in person as we thought they'd be. I love the one in the video with the spots on her head. Its that considered a Splash?

-Charlene

 

[BantyChooks]

BANTI, I just came across this. All I can say is WOW. I held my breath over all of these baby pics. You totally get why I love ducklings so much. I love them. They are tiny, ROUND AND SWEET FACED AND WEBS. THEIR WEBS ARE SOOOOOPER CUTE. Thank you for the treat. I am gonna go back and stare and save.

We can sit an oooh and ahhhhh over babie birby webbered fwuffy innocent duckilings together!!!!

I have saved these and am now rotating through these as my desktop wallpaper. Such cuteness cannot be shoved into a corner if the net and left there.
Do you have any ducks right now?
-Banti

 

[Amiga]

Wow that was very mellow! My kids & I have watched as many of your videos as we can find, because they really are funny! We actually watched the one in the garden 3x because it was hysterical. Ultimately my favorite was the one where they bustle out into the snow & cram onto the hay pile looking totally confused then rush back into the house. We could hear them all saying, "No!No!Nope!Nope!No!No!Nope!No!"

Good to know that's not an all day thing & that they're not as tall in person as we thought they'd be. I love the one in the video with the spots on her head. Its that considered a Splash?

-Charlene

Ever since their second year, the Runners have been getting "snow" feathers. They started out chocolate and black. Zehn was our last holdout, she did not start getting snow feathers till she was perhaps three years old. But Zwei, she's chocolate, and probably has 20 or 30 brown feathers now - otherwise she is white.

Indeed, they do say "No!No!Nope!Nope!No!No!Nope!No!" especially to the first snowfall. One day last year, I think it was still 12F at nearly noon, so I opened the door to the night pen and offered to let them go outside. They all stopped at the door sill and said "No!No!Nope!Nope!No!No!Nope!No!" turned on their ducky heels and stayed in the rest of the day, content.

There are occasional conferences. We live just upstairs from them, so we can all hear each other. And two or three times a night, I'll hear a conversation something like this:

"you awake? you awake?"
"Well, I wasn't."
"I'm awake."
"So I see."
"Who's awake?"
"Me"
"Now I am, too"
"What are you doing?"
"Nothing. What are you doing"
"Is it morning already?"
"What?"
"I'm gonna find a snack"
"We ate the snacks at bedtime"
"you sure?"

and so forth, for a few minutes. They're doing it right now.

Oh, and kinda new recently - I must check in first thing in the morning even if it is not time to go outside, and I must check in a little while after we come in for the night, and if I go out, I have to report to the flock when I get back home, and then again at bedtime, and every now and then when Ion the cat gets me up at 5 a.m. for breakfast, I must go check on the duckies.

Alba, our adopted white Mallard, has now appointed herself She Who Watches Out for the Flock. She yells whenever Bean comes into view, and whenever there is anything she feels amiss. She chases Bean away from Romy, and stalks him if she suspects he is up to no good. Perhaps she knows I have been wondering if we'll ever find a livestock guard animal to replace me in that role, and so she is showing me how adept she is at that job.

 

[room onthebroom]

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Indeed, they do say "No!No!Nope!Nope!No!No!Nope!No!" especially to the first snowfall. One day last year, I think it was still 12F at nearly noon, so I opened the door to the night pen and offered to let them go outside. They all stopped at the door sill and said "No!No!Nope!Nope!No!No!Nope!No!" turned on their ducky heels and stayed in the rest of the day, content.

There are occasional conferences. We live just upstairs from them, so we can all hear each other. And two or three times a night, I'll hear a conversation something like this:

"you awake? you awake?"
"Well, I wasn't."
"I'm awake."
"So I see."
"Who's awake?"
"Me"
"Now I am, too"
"What are you doing?"
"Nothing. What are you doing"
"Is it morning already?"
"What?"
"I'm gonna find a snack"
"We ate the snacks at bedtime"
"you sure?"

and so forth, for a few minutes. They're doing it right now.

Its taken me almost 11 months to learn to speak Duck. It is a much harder dialect for me to understand than Chicken or Quail has been. Now when I go out there I know she's mostly saying "Snack!Snack!Snack!Snack!" ... I should have known.

 

[Julie Birb]

We can sit an oooh and ahhhhh over babie birby webbered fwuffy innocent duckilings together!!!!

I have saved these and am now rotating through these as my desktop wallpaper. Such cuteness cannot be shoved into a corner if the net and left there.

Do you have any ducks right now?
-Banti

I love that idea, Banti. WE BOTH can do that over the babie birbbie webbered fluvvers. You totally speak my language with your wording. We see the same things in the fuzzie littles.

I agree. They should NOT be left in the dark corner of the web. We need to see their webs.

I do not have any ducks now. I am a renter but am looking for more rural property to build a little house and get a covered run for my own webs. But in the meantime I do own two very tiny Zebra finches that I LOVE VERY MUCH. They are bitty little terrors and I let them free-range in my place.

Your avatar is soooooo CUTE!!

 

[Julie Birb]

Here - recent

They are so cute. Waddling in the yard with their webs. The colors are absolutely stunning. I AM IN LOVE.