Metzer farm ducks. Post pics

[Miss Lydia]

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Here's a more recent pic,10 weeks old today. The black swedes mixed in came from cackle hatchery.

Very pretty flock have they all tried to get into the pool together? I bet that's a hoot.

 

[gilmeryote]

Thanks Miss Lydia. Sometimes they'll pile in 4 or 5 at a time, the rest will hang out at the edge jabbering away waiting for their turn. I need a bigger/deeper pool cause they like to dive.

 

[DeckDuck]

Don't mind if I do! I am glad I chose Metzers for my two girls. The quality of their stock seems to be very nice. The Blue Swedish, Maddy, lays tons of giant white eggs and Sophie, the Buff Orpington, lays blue eggs and is an incredibly cute duck.

This stuff has been shared around here before; I hope I'm not bugging anyone

 

[theduckgirl4110]

Don't mind if I do! I am glad I chose Metzers for my two girls. The quality of their stock seems to be very nice. The Blue Swedish, Maddy, lays tons of giant white eggs and Sophie, the Buff Orpington, lays blue eggs and is an incredibly cute duck.

This stuff has been shared around here before; I hope I'm not bugging anyone

Go right ahead and bother!

I have actually seen your two babies on here before. Curious, Where do you live? Metzer says they ship out your ducklings on monday, so when did your little ones arrive? Thank you. I'm expecting two little ducklings also and I want to know so I can be ready.

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

Adorable.

 

[DeckDuck]

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Somehow I had missed that you're getting just two. It's nerve wracking to have just two ducklings in the mail, isn't it? I believe my girls were shipped on a Monday morning too; they traveled from Metzer's in California all the way to me in Ohio and arrived on schedule on Wednesday morning. They were perfectly fine. Ducklings are hardy. I could barely get out of the post office because everyone wanted to see the baby ducks!

The box had actually been bent a little from what must have been lots of people trying to peek inside. I can't say I blame them, I have yet to see something cuter than a couple of ducklings inside a peeping box.

If you get yours home and after a while they start to throw up clear sticky stuff, don't panic. Mine did this and it freaked me out. They were throwing up almost constantly. I got on the forum and ended up talking with two other people having the same problem with their own part of that week's batch of Metzer's ducklings. I am now pretty sure that what happens it that the babies, being ducks after all, become dehydrated during their voyage. They may have been too cold or stressed to eat much of the grow gel. When they are put in the brooder and introduced to water, they drink so much that their little stomachs can't hold it and they just can't keep it all down. The problem resolved itself in a few days with no ill effects, and the whole while the ducklings were energetic and growing like crazy. Just a heads up. It seems to happen pretty often.

Don't forget to share some pictures with us when you get them!

Are these your first ducks or do you have others?

 

[theduckgirl4110]

Thank you. I am expecting them tommorrow actually! I have one other duck. She is four months old and she needs some friends so that is why I am getting these two. I am going to post the pictures of them tommorrow on a threard I started a while ago. When i do post i will post the link here for everyone to see in one place!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thank you. I am expecting them tommorrow actually! I have one other duck. She is four months old and she needs some friends so that is why I am getting these two. I am going to post the pictures of them tommorrow on a threard I started a while ago. When i do post i will post the link here for everyone to see in one place!!

excited for you!!

 

[DeckDuck]

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excited for you!!


x2!

 

[theduckgirl4110]

Thank you!

I am too. I can hardly control myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Waiting for new little peeping babies is just like this:

And when you finally get them it is like this: