I'm sooooooo proud of my ducks!!

[PlumTuckered]

I'm so proud of my 7 week old Pekins!

Every evening around 7:15 I walk to the edge of the pasture and holler "Duck duck...come home for supper" and see five white heads poke up from beyond the pond levee..then here they come waddling home quacking and peeping all the way. They eat supper, jump into their kiddie pool to play a while then I herd them to the "bedroom" crate. Well last night when I walked outside to go call them they were already half way home..ohhhh good duckies. I sat and watched them play in the pool after they ate and remembered I had to take the trash down to the road so I put the trash on the fourwheeler and carried it down. When I got back up here there were my ducks all stretched out in their crate ready for a night's sleep!! I think I have the smartest ducks in the world

Michelle

 

[Wifezilla]

Awwww!!!!

My little buttheads still have to be herded. They KNOW it is bed time, they just don't care!

 

[PlumTuckered]

That's how I thought mine would be since they seemed to hate going to bed. They always wanted to sleep in their kiddie pool. I've been herding them for 3 weeks, pretty dang fast learners I think

Michelle

 

[below_gravity]

nice!! glad to hear the ducks are cooperating

 

[Luvducks]

That is wonderful! Good story. I do not think ducks are dumb at all.

 

[supermommy]

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same problem here too! They could care less

 

[sparkles2307]

Aw congrats!

Our Saxony drake doesnt care to come home, EVER, and in fact swims out farther so we cant get to him... the routine is now, let him sleep out on the pond 2 nights, then he comes home for some corn so we pen him up for a night, then 2 nights on the pond.... yeah and he sits outside the pen now all day trying to get Meade to come play, but sehs supposed to be setting and if he keeps it up I will have roast duck! I cant wait till the new babies are big enough that he can have play mates other than Meade.

 

[sonew123]

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how sweet--how do you "heard" them? I mean what are your intentions with hearding to get them to obey certain commands and activities?-I have 1 baby duck-would this be something I should do to them?

 

[PlumTuckered]

Oh Sparkles, he sounds like a stubborn lil booger indeed!

Sonew123, I herd them when I want them in a different spot, or would herd them to get them home in the evening. I don't want them sleeping out in the open because a predator can get them. Sometimes they like to take a nap on the concrete porch but if my Husband is sitting out there with me he doesn't want them on the porch (he hates that they poop up there, I just hose it down everytime they do LOL) so I'll heard them to the shade of the cedar tree or to their kiddie pool. They are super easy to herd, walk slowly behind them and raise the left arm when you want them to go to the right, raise the right arm when you want them to go to the left

Sometimes I can walk across the yard or pasture and holler duck duck and they follow me wherever I go, they're so much dang fun!

Michelle