My Love Affair With Ducks...

[Mimi13]

Here’s the back story to this video: Petey had been swimming back and forth eyeing MK’s hat bill and must have gotten too close for his comfort and he moved. Petey then kept swimming back and forth ‘Eyeing’ That Other Bill. Once MK stopped watching Petey, she swam in for the kill! She is one determined duck.

 

[Mimi13]

The duckies are Already Learning The Tap Of A Toe! Our dogs have it down pat and some of the chickens do, but it’s not taking too long for the duck babies either. MK taps his toe (just a habit in a house full of dogs) and the ducks find a green pea.

 

[duluthralphie]

Here’s the back story to this video: Petey had been swimming back and forth eyeing MK’s hat bill and must have gotten too close for his comfort and he moved. Petey then kept swimming back and forth ‘Eyeing’ That Other Bill. Once MK stopped watching Petey, she swam in for the kill! She is one determined duck.

Was that a New York south side drawl I heard?

 

[Mimi13]

Was that a New York south side drawl I heard?

I actually don’t know WTH it was! I need to record myself more and find out how really stupid I do sound!

 

[Knighstar679]

Got anyone honking yet @Mimi13 my welsh Harlequin girls started this week.

 

[duluthralphie]

I actually don’t know WTH it was! I need to record myself more and find out how really stupid I do sound!

You chose to believe me when I tease you about your regional dialect but refuse to believe me on the impending doom dux have planned for humans???

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I actually don’t know WTH it was! I need to record myself more and find out how really stupid I do sound!

It is always a shock for people when they hear their recorded voice for the first time: »This is how i sound for yall? OMG! (blush!)«

 

[CeceliaD]

...and Their Love Affair With Water!

This is my second day owning ducks and I have fallen head over heels in love with them!

Those precious little peeps, the interesting looking bills, the ever so delicate looking webbed feet, and those expressive eyes with their heads cocked sideways peering up at me. Oh, and did I mention their little love ‘bites’ on my neck and lips (OUCH!) That I must not let continue so I suppose I have to stop kissing them. I know, I know, I’m not supposed to kiss them, but the way I look at it my chances are better catching Covid 19 from a stranger than catching salmonella from my baby ducklings.

My little Saxony duckling, Twinkle, is seeing the world straight today for the very first time. Since arriving home a little over 24 hours ago, she has been in a sort of vertigo state, staggering, stumbling, turning in circles, and not being able to hold her head straight.

With the help of several BYC members giving me suggestions and instructions to help her mend, she appears to be on the road to recovery...the road to being a normal, healthy, funny little duck.

I will continue my journey of being a First Time Duck Owner/Spring 2020 duck thread here. My initial thread can be found here for all the background story of My Love Affair With Ducks!

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I love this! I’ve had grown ducks before but I just got my first ducklings too and I’m so glad we feel the same way about them. They are just the most adorable things on the planet and I can’t help but kiss them too!

 

[Mimi13]

Got anyone honking yet @Mimi13 my welsh Harlequin girls started this week.

OMG, yes! I can hear it now that they are outside. The honking is loud when I’m walking up to them, but it is even LOUDER when I walk away. It breaks my heart. I will get a video of their honking. I noticed Hershey was really honking this morning, but it seems my little WH is still peeping.

 

[Mimi13]

Got anyone honking yet @Mimi13 my welsh Harlequin girls started this week.

Post some pics of your babies.