New Additions this Year?!

[LavenderandSage]

Greetings! So with spring not too far away, who is enlarging their family (of feather friends) this year?
I am really wanting to add another runner to the family, but our trio is so happy now I am hesitant.
This is the Late Lilly and our rescue duck 'Mouse".

 

[Sfraker]

I just ordered 12 Welsh Harlequin from Metzers. They will be here the week of 3/16. Counting down the days until I get my fuzzy little ducklings. That will bring me up to 22 ducks! EEEK!

 

[Kaessa]

I have an assortment of four girls coming from Metzer's the week of 3/16 as well. One of each: Welsh Harlequin, Khaki Campbell, Blue Swedish, and Cayuga.

I can't wait!!

 

[PotatoWaffles]

I have five 3wk old ducklings now, two Cayugas, two Welsh harlequins and a runner, that I'm adding to our adult peking and adult mallard. I had three more ducklings, a buff, a runner and a Swedish, from Metzer that were supposed to be here yesterday morning, but they got lost in transit and haven't arrived yet. Metzer said that a lot of people never got their ducklings yesterday, and that they shipped them and a bunch of other ducklings Monday morning, but they haven't been marked as received anywhere by the USPS. So basically I should be expecting a box of dead baby ducks here sometime. I still plan on getting three more, but I feel so bad for all those missig babies. There's no way they'll have survived so long in transit =[

But yes, by the end of spring, I'll have (hopefully) increased my flock from two to ten. What will I do with all those eggs when they start laying?? Lol

 

[Kaessa]

Those poor babies, lost in the mail. That's just so sad.

 

[PotatoWaffles]

Those poor babies, lost in the mail. That's just so sad.   

I know, I keep imagining a truckload of dead ducklings, and it makes me sad =[

 

[andrea1215]

We have two Pekins, two Rouens, two Cayugas, two Blue Swedish and two Welsh Harlequin coming early next month from Metzer.

 

[Kaessa]

I know, I keep imagining a truckload of dead ducklings, and it makes me sad =[

I'm so stressed about mine coming. I am SO worried they're not going to be ok.

 

[LavenderandSage]

Oh those babies! Two to ten is a big increase. How fun! What got you started in raising ducks?

 

[Amiga]

I am pretty sure I'll be adding two or three Runner girls to the flock this year. I am holding out for now for adopting rescues. I just would like them to be 3 years old or younger, as my entire flock of Runners and Buffs are all five years old. I would like to stagger the ages. We don't have room for another 13 (!) so I just want to add 2 or 3 every 4 or 5 years. We are going to be running a geriatric assisted living facility for Ducks in about five years, looks like! That's the goal - healthy senior ducks. Another learning curve!