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Hello
my name is debbie!
I would like to share my wonderful story about ducks
It all started two years ago where I managed to convince my boyfriend (mark) to get a little duck.
After a long Saturday researching and hunting for where to buy ducklings from we found two call ducklings 11 days old and completely yellow. Exactly what I wanted
We brought theses little fluff balls home
Me and mark have named them daffy and puddles..
We sat with them every night because we wanted to make sure they liked us I guess, and they do
I hope! Lol
Completely 100% certain that we had a boy and girl because they were completely different to one another we soon realised that they wasn't when both their tail feathers curled up.
When spring came round my ankles became their number one enemy
I was getting attacked.. Me being me I didn't even realise that they was "horny" I thought they didn't like me anymore..
Mark researched and read on here "back yard chickens" that they wanted to mate as it was matting season.
Now we need to get some girl ducks, it had to be two as it wasn't fair to make them share a lady lol
We brought home daisy and pickle
11 months on and both girls have been laying eggs
We let them hatch the eggs and out of 24 eggs one little baby duck hatched on a Sunday afternoon..
But sadly they little fella never made it through the first night
mark found it the next morning.
Not expecting anymore eggs this year from the girls, to our surprise they layed another 20 between them
I was so excited to have a little duckling again, mark and everybody kept telling me to not get excited not yet because the first duckling never made it..
We brought an incubator so we could try and hatch them ourselves, we had 17 eggs in the incubator and left 3 outside with the girls.
One egg from outside wasn't fertile and the other two have hatched and are 5 weeks old
All 17 eggs hatched in the incubator!! This was not expected we are all still shocked lol
One of the eggs was struggling and seemed to be taking a lot longer than the first few before it..
Me and mark.. Mainly mark helped the duckling out of the shell. Very risky as I know it's supposed to get out alone. But we thought we would rather help it out and try to give it a life than watch it die in the shell.
He or she was a week old when it died
we don't know why it died but i don't regret helping it out as I think it wouldn't of got out on its own.
The only small problem we have had with the ducklings is we noticed one has a swollen eye and couldn't open it, a quick trip to the vets with a weeks worth of drops 3 times a day along with bathing the eye (very difficult) the lovely Popeye is better now
Bringing my story to an end..
We have 4 adult call ducks and 18 ducklings!!
They are all beautiful with wonderful colours
I hope I never put any to sleep with my story, I would love to hear your duck story or even some advice on anything
Thank you for reading
x
I would like to share my wonderful story about ducks
It all started two years ago where I managed to convince my boyfriend (mark) to get a little duck.
After a long Saturday researching and hunting for where to buy ducklings from we found two call ducklings 11 days old and completely yellow. Exactly what I wanted
We brought theses little fluff balls home
Me and mark have named them daffy and puddles..
We sat with them every night because we wanted to make sure they liked us I guess, and they do
Completely 100% certain that we had a boy and girl because they were completely different to one another we soon realised that they wasn't when both their tail feathers curled up.
When spring came round my ankles became their number one enemy
Mark researched and read on here "back yard chickens" that they wanted to mate as it was matting season.
Now we need to get some girl ducks, it had to be two as it wasn't fair to make them share a lady lol
We brought home daisy and pickle
11 months on and both girls have been laying eggs
We let them hatch the eggs and out of 24 eggs one little baby duck hatched on a Sunday afternoon..
But sadly they little fella never made it through the first night
Not expecting anymore eggs this year from the girls, to our surprise they layed another 20 between them
I was so excited to have a little duckling again, mark and everybody kept telling me to not get excited not yet because the first duckling never made it..
We brought an incubator so we could try and hatch them ourselves, we had 17 eggs in the incubator and left 3 outside with the girls.
One egg from outside wasn't fertile and the other two have hatched and are 5 weeks old
All 17 eggs hatched in the incubator!! This was not expected we are all still shocked lol
One of the eggs was struggling and seemed to be taking a lot longer than the first few before it..
Me and mark.. Mainly mark helped the duckling out of the shell. Very risky as I know it's supposed to get out alone. But we thought we would rather help it out and try to give it a life than watch it die in the shell.
He or she was a week old when it died
The only small problem we have had with the ducklings is we noticed one has a swollen eye and couldn't open it, a quick trip to the vets with a weeks worth of drops 3 times a day along with bathing the eye (very difficult) the lovely Popeye is better now
Bringing my story to an end..
We have 4 adult call ducks and 18 ducklings!!
They are all beautiful with wonderful colours
I hope I never put any to sleep with my story, I would love to hear your duck story or even some advice on anything
Thank you for reading
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and Welcome To BYC! What adorable ducklings!
