Duck Addicts Anonymous (DAA)

[Painted Calls]

These silly ducks flew up on to my stack of firewood on the front porch. It’s stacked about 4’ high.
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Peeping Tom's. Jeez.

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

Well, it finally got above freezing for the first time in maybe a month. I was finally able to get the “barn sour” girls out to bathe and play. Now there are 4 worn out and perfectly clean (for the moment) ducks.

 

[MangoDuck]

Today I lost 2 beautiful ducks. While I was at school and the ducks were free ranging a fox came along and took 2. Of course the ducks were taken and not the drakes I'm having to cull . One of them was a young girl who would've been starting to lay soon. The second was the saddest. She was the mama duck who laid almost as much as chooks do. She has laid 2 clutches with 20 odd eggs in each, hatched out one of the clutches (11 ducklings hatched from her clutch and she looked after them all so well), laid all the other eggs I grabbed and was still laying. I don't know how she done it. She was my sister's favorite.

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Sorry, I'm a bit upset tonight. Thought you guys would understand. That's just the part of having animals I do not like.

I’m sorry to hear that! A long time ago I had chickens and it always seemed that my favourite one would be the one to get taken by a fox or a hawk.

 

[Isadora]

Everyone is really enjoying all the rain we're getting.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Well, it finally got above freezing for the first time in maybe a month. I was finally able to get the “barn sour” girls out to bathe and play. Now there are 4 worn out and perfectly clean (for the moment) ducks. View attachment 2981245View attachment 2981246View attachment 2981247View attachment 2981248View attachment 2981249View attachment 2981250

So adorable! I bet they played hard and enjoyed every second of it

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Have any of y'all noticed your ducks (I've only noticed the girls doing this) get really close to each other, chest to chest, standing as tall as possible, and quacking really fast? I'm curious if this is normal. If not, I need to get a video. My Aztec's do this, especially if I've been holding one of them for something. As soon as I put the one I'm holding back on the ground, the other hen will run over and they'll do that. They don't seem aggressive at all. I'm just curious

 

[HeatherKellyB]

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Everyone is really enjoying all the rain we're getting.

Do they all stick together all the time? Those Geese They look like they're having the best time in their little stream

 

[Painted Calls]

Have any of y'all noticed your ducks (I've only noticed the girls doing this) get really close to each other, chest to chest, standing as tall as possible, and quacking really fast? I'm curious if this is normal. If not, I need to get a video. My Aztec's do this, especially if I've been holding one of them for something. As soon as I put the one I'm holding back on the ground, the other hen will run over and they'll do that. They don't seem aggressive at all. I'm just curious

I've seen mine do it a few times. Always makes me think of men (sometimes women) bucking up to each other before a fight. Like "What?! What?! Say somethin! Say somethin'!"

 

[Isadora]

Do they all stick together all the time? Those Geese They look like they're having the best time in their little stream

Yeah, for the most part they pretty much do! Occasionally a couple of the geese will pair off and wander by themselves but the ducks are always in a big group.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

I've seen mine do it a few times. Always makes me think of men (sometimes women) bucking up to each other before a fight. Like "What?! What?! Say somethin! Say somethin'!"

That's hilarious! I always think they're making fun of me when they do that. Standing tall like a person and then trying to talk like me. Just a duck impersonating a human as well as they can. I think it's so hilarious.