(green is our boy, purple is our girl) Willow and Birch.
They are gorgeous! Have you entered them in a show?@FunnyfarmMidwest
The ducks have finally stopped molting. As you can see, one duck is far more balanced than the other...
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Haha no, they are pretty aggressive. Maybe ISF 2022. I'm hoping to hatch some ducklings from them. Their duckling from 2019 and 2021 won the Iowa State Fair (ISF). Pretty impressive for ducks that are almost 3.They are gorgeous! Have you entered them in a show?
Lol. They looked so sweet in the photo not feisty!
Absolutely!Lol. They looked so sweet in the photo not feisty!
I’d love to see a picture of their duckling if you have one. That’s great!
Just looked at my calendar and they're due to hatch 22/11. Hopefully all goes well. She tried to sit on eggs once before but got off after a week and we lost all but one duck by the time I got to them and there were 20 then. I don't know how she sits on them all, she's only small. She must pile them up a bit I'd say.
My Buff duck grew in some darker than normal feathers on her head and body, along with some smokey looking wing feathers recently. That's so odd that I keep hearing about so many ducks doing that this year.My girls are doing great! I haven't had any illness or injury for a few months now. My avian vet might have forgotten the sounds of my voice. I'm so relieved.
Pigweed grew back almost entirely new colors after her last molt. It's so funny she looks like a different duck. Her winter outfit usually has a few red and black feathers, when she's typically mostly white, but this year she went crazy! She looks like a real welsh harlequin! I'll try to get a photo tomorrow.
I'm struggling a bit. My dog got diagnosed with lymphoma tonight. We've been at the ER all day, and are waiting to get him back now. I think we are going to do chemo for him.
Thank you for asking.
I had the same thing happen to most of mine too. One molted before everyone else in the summer and whitened a lot. I thought out here, it had something to do with the smoke reducing sunlight. My newest Saxony ducks molted into their adult molts that remind me of drakes at first. And I kept thinking, but they quack. Those dark feathers really made me nervous for a good week.
Tom, my Buff duck (her masculine name was already stuck before we realized she was a girl) had a molt early summer that resulted in quite a bit of white feathering. Must be something with the sun or something. I thought it was so odd that she'd get brand new feathers to molt all over again. I guess this is 2021 so that's an explanation in itself, right
