Duck with chicken momma

[bantymum]

Just beautiful, thanks for giving us such nice pics to look at before i go to sleep!

 

[Kiki]

I had a Buff Silkie raise a duckling earlier this year and it was the cutest thing!! Darci (the duckling) would quack and holler if I took her even a few steps from her "mama" and Buttercup (the Silkie) would follow me until I put her "baby" down. They were so funny together! Darci really thought she was a chicken and even learned how to climb the ladder to roost. Darci soon outgrew Buttercup so she would just be able to fit her head underneath her mama, but she didn't seem to mind. I got a little kiddie pool to let Darci swim, but she DID NOT want to get in it without Buttercup, so for a while, I sat beside the pool holding Buttercup so Darci could see her...but I kinda got tired of just sitting there LOL, so I eventually put Buttercup in the water too (it wasn't deep at all; she could touch the bottom) I half expected Buttercup to go crazy and try to fly out, but she just calmly sat there and watched Darci have a good ole time splashing around. She even took a quick nap LOL!
I didn't have any other ducks (I just bought Darci from a feed store and slipped her under Buttercup) so I don't know what she would have done when she was grown and put in with her own kind. But I think she would have adjusted. I would leave your duckling with the mama until she pulls away, then put the duckling with the other ducks.

@PirateGirl @casportpony

 

[PirateGirl]

Awe.

 

[casportpony]

@PirateGirl @casportpony

That's adorable, but this is the one I was thinking of:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...st-broodies-and-babies.1308292/#post-21323279

 

[PirateGirl]

That's adorable, but this is the one I was thinking of:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...st-broodies-and-babies.1308292/#post-21323279

Yes, I think that mama has her own thread somewhere. I saw that photo before.

 

[MROO]

I would let him be. When he grows up he will relize he is a duck. The funny thing is watching the reaction of the Momma Chicken when he starts to swim.

Been there ... done that ... and it's almost hysterically funny! When my Banty's webfooted chicklings went for a swim, she went NUTS!

 

[llombardo]

This has got to be the cutest thing ever. The only thing to worry about is if the duck is a boy ad tries to mate with the hens, but if it's quacking I would guess it's a girl.