Documenting Day-to-Day Duckie Development

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WannaBeHillBilly said:
Well, there will be a time when you wish they wouldn't come running at you whenever you leave the house, for example when you are desperately trying to dig up your potato patch and some ducks literally jump on that piece of loan on your spade to pick out the worms first. Like in the video below.
Are you planning to let them roam free in your yard? - They could, they are mature enough to sleep in a house outside, destroy the flower beds and poop on your patio during the day…
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They will join the chickens in the chicken yard. I am almost done with the duck house. I just need to put the roof on now. They'll probably move out there this weekend.

We introduced them to the chickens, separated by a fence. The chickens were curious for a few mi items, bit went back to their scratching and their pecking. The duckies, however, were terrified - not of the chickens, but of the big trees around the chicken yard. I think the openness of it was too much for them.

I think they'll be ok in the run. The run is covered. We will fence off part of it for them so they will be separated from the chickens for a while. The run isn't as big as I'd like - about 200 sq ft - but we're going to start leaving the run open all the time now that the weather is clearing up.
 
Aunt Angus said:
They will join the chickens in the chicken yard. I am almost done with the duck house. I just need to put the roof on now. They'll probably move out there this weekend.

We introduced them to the chickens, separated by a fence. The chickens were curious for a few mi items, bit went back to their scratching and their pecking. The duckies, however, were terrified - not of the chickens, but of the big trees around the chicken yard. I think the openness of it was too much for them.

I think they'll be ok in the run. The run is covered. We will fence off part of it for them so they will be separated from the chickens for a while. The run isn't as big as I'd like - about 200 sq ft - but we're going to start leaving the run open all the time now that the weather is clearing up.
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I will never forget the afternoon when i brought our first six duckies home: They had never seen the blue sky before, they had been in the farm-store bin for the first week of their life. They were all peeping frightened while they were in the bin in the shopping cart, but the moment we left the store and they could see the blue sky and the bright sunlight they went quiet… Just watching around them in disbelief. And while sitting in the passenger seat of the car they were just watching back and forth and forth and back and up and down and back up until they all fell on their backs: A plane had just flown over the car - National Guard is stationed at Yeager airport…
Till today the three remaining "original" ducks love to sit down and watch the sky. They just don't fall on there backs anymore when the NG performs a fly-over. 😊
 

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