Midwinter's Bath - Way too many pictures, don't click here if you don't want to see ducks.

[DwayneNLiz]

@Tevyes Dad
, did you mean to name Casey what you did? I mean, she's a Khaki Campbell, often called KCs for short. And Casey is Pronounced KC, and Casey is a KC...
Casey the KC!

Lol yes, he said that in a previous post lol

 

[BunnynChicks]

Well it got a little warmer today but since we have had a bob cat who came down in the area a couple weeks back, there was an immature bald eagle in the big tree out back and the snow in the back yard is still too deep for the ducks to ford with any competency, they got one small pool to splash around in. (We aren't going through this bath thing every weekend, that's for sure...)

We explained to them that they could take turns and we would leave the pool out long enough for all of them to get a turn before going into the sun to dry off. All the ducks but Casey (in the house still) and Latte (stayed back in the pen for a little bit then went swimming with Rhiannon after all the other ducks decided to eat) are in this picture so that is 12 ducks. I guess they decided that they didn't have to take turns in their big pool, so why would they have to in this one...

From the low part of the ramp to the high part are: Gretta, Pocahontas, Roxette, Ettie (I think) and Mystique.

In the pool, Tevye of course is the poof-head, and starting with his bill and going CCW around the pool is Tella (I think) with Entie looped over her. Rhiannon is wedging in, then Dove is facing Kaine who is facing the other way. Behind Kaine is Noir. Allie is hiding in plain sight. She is actually in front of Tevye (most of the body you see is hers) with her head under his butt and Dove's chest. There is some water in there somewhere and it was actually full before the ducks saw it. So when anyone asks you how many ducks can fit in a small kiddie pool, the answer is 8 before stacking. I think there were actually moments when there were 10, but that wasn't a stable configuration. Fortunately, after the initial frenzy, they did take shifts and everyone had a chance to get a little bath.

Believe it or not in spite of the tight quarters, they seemed to have quite a bit of fun. There wasn't much fighting and once they decided to rotate in and out they all had a chance to do all those great ducky washing maneuvers.

Squeeeeee! Wet webbers.....wet biwws...... wet poofy tops.........SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE

And no such thing as too many duck pictures.....

 

[Julie Birb]

Tony!! That brought me to tears. So sweet.

 

[Julie Birb]

Squeeeeee! Wet webbers.....wet biwws...... wet poofy tops.........SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE e
And no such thing as too many duck pictures.....

I CONCUR. I DO. LOVE THE BURDS AND THE NARRATIVE. TOOTSIE ROLLS OF FOOOT BALLS.

 

[QuackSpeak]

Lol yes, he said that in a previous post lol

And here I was, so proud of myself, lol

 

[Julie Birb]

​And here I was, so proud of myself, lol

hahaha, ur so cute.

 

[QuackSpeak]

hahaha, ur so cute.

I've heard you say that ducks are cute... Never for a human haha

 

[Tevyes Dad]

@Tevyes Dad , did you mean to name Casey what you did? I mean, she's a Khaki Campbell, often called KCs for short. And Casey is Pronounced KC, and Casey is a KC...
Casey the KC!

Well, it looks like this was already answered soooo, instead I will go through the rest of the flock since it has been a while and all their names have "reasons"

Our first two ducks were our Rouen girls. At the time, they were our only two ducks and we were very new to this so we named them for what ducks do:

Sh!ttella
and
Poopette.

These became Tella, and Ettie as we cleaned up the language.

From first brood, we have the following ducks:
Kaine - He is our Rouen Drake and he has the green Mallard head so his head is what has been traditionally used for the ball of a walking cane and he was named after that. It was a complete coincidence that he is always raising Cain.
Tevye - He is our White Crested boy. I thought his poof looked like a Russian Ushanka and for a Russian name, Boris seemed too "stereotypical" so I took a leap and took his name from the character in "Fiddler on the Roof" which takes place in Russia. Somehow, he very much fits into that name. If you don't know what I mean, you should watch the movie with Topol as Tevye.
Rhiannan - She is a Welsh Harlequin and Rhiannan is Welsh for Great Queen.
Pocahontas - She is a Cayuga. They are named for the NY County which is in turn named for the Native American People of the Iroquois Nation. Pocahontas was a Native American (no not Iroquois, I know).
Greta - She is our Black Swedish - Greta Garbo was a Swedish actress from Black and White films.
Roxette - She is our Blue Swedish - Roxette is a Swedish Band: Dangerous, Joy Ride, Listen to your Heart.
Dove - She is our Chocolate Runner - MMMMmmm Chocolate.
Entie - She is our Fawn & White Runner - First thought was Bambi, but Bambi was a boy, his girlfriend was named Faline and NOBODY would make that association but nothing else came to mind. Finally, my brain cracked and I went the simple way. A friend of ours once named their dog Diogee for D.O.G. Well after having spent 10 years in Germany, I thought: The German word for duck is Ente, it would sound more like a girl's name if we put the eeeeee sound on the end instead of the "uh" sound it normally has so I slipped an "i" into the word and Entie was born. Don't worry we get tongue tangled over Entie vs Ettie ourselves but it's not like we got to pick their names...... Oh, I guess we did.

Also from our first brood were three that didn't make it but I refuse to ever let them out of my mind or heart so they will be included here too.
Ebony was our Black Runner named after the hardwood.
Belle was our Blue Runner named after the Blue Bell Flower. They were both killed in a raccoon attack that taught us about the level of defenses we needed.
Snow was our Pekin named for Snow White. We lost her due to an automatic door malfunction where she wasn't let out of her house on a very hot day. We were only lucky that we didn't lose our whole flock. That taught us to never fully trust gizmos. It is OUR job to take care of the ducks.

Since then we added a few more ducks.
Mystique - She is our Blue Runner - named after the blue girl in the X-men franchise by one of our nieces.
Noir - She is our Black Runner - Noir is French for black.
Allie - She is our Pekin - Allie is short for Alabaster which is a soft, white mineral.
Latte - She is our Buff duck - And she is about the color of a latte.

So Casey is not alone having an unusual duck name.

 

[Tevyes Dad]

Tony!! That brought me to tears. So sweet.

Sorry, don't cry Julie, I said you could use mute, I do

 

[Miss Lydia]

You and Mama Dux really took alot of time in picking names and I love them all. Thanks for sharing what they all mean too.

Oh and I loved the song too and just think it went all around this big wide world.