PLEASE help my poor call ducks

[lilchicklets2]

I was sitting with them for awhile and they would just stare at me like I was nuts. A couple days ago I turned around and there was a HUGE spider on the wall

I HATE spiders so I havnt hung out with them in a couple days. But now that I know all these treats they like I'm gona suck it up and try again. I do let them roam the yard so maybe I'll sit out there with a bag of frozen peas and make some friends

Also the hen really likes checking out my 2 week old chicks so maybe I can con her into playing

 

[bibkel]

ok, Here is what I have for a Blue Swedish.
Just born....literally.
Her name is lightning cuz she was there so fast and she was silver.

Lighting about a week or so old

This is her (she is actually a mutt but looks like a blue swedish)with her "sister" that is turning out to look like a rouen or khaki campell(even tho we have none) acting ducky

Here she is chillin on my lap, with a ferret harness with material to catch the poops...until our Indoorducks diapers come!

This one is today, she is dabbling in the old pool water after swimming in the clean "bug duck" pool.

and this is her mom, I think.

Her white spot seems to be getting smaller and is wrapping around, and she has a black target spot on the back of her head....and her oil gland is more black too.

 

[lilchicklets2]

OMG!!!!

I love them!!!!
They are all so beautiful!!!
How is her disposition? I love that they have separate pools!! LOL!!! Spoiled much?

How about the other ducks in one of those pictures. Were those mallards?


How many ducks do you have all together? Looks like a lot.

Now I'm even more excited to get my eggs in!!!!

 

[bibkel]

Yes I have too darn many!

We have three Mallard males (one does not have the white ring, he is Zero), and they are the randy ones...then we have 5 Cayuga-2 boy 3 girls but one is the lame duck (punny huh) two female golden hybrid (last picture tan one on the right) and two female blue swedish, and a rouen pair. The girl rouen likes the two ringed mallards. The male seems to like the GH-300 and the cayugas.

we have 14 adults, all skittish cuz they imprinted on each other....then we have the teenagers (blue swedish x, cayuga x, and rouen x) and they are 4 weeks old...then we have 11 babies and more eggs getting ready to hatch. Two of the chicks are actually still under the chickens who hatched them.

Yes, spoiled. I have a total of 4 kiddie pools. two 4' ones, one is new for the babies and we keep that up front. The other one is in back and I dump it daily. Then we got a 5' one and I can't dump it so it is not used right now, plus my attempts to change the water resulted in the plastic cracking. I bought one with a slide that is REALLY deep and they love it, and I can empty it by pushing the side down...that is the "big duck" pool. The babies can't hop out of it yet. The big ducks have enough trouble. I have to present my hands so they can get lifted out. They tend to do another dive and swim away, then they come back to be lifted. Like they are saying "just one more minute mommy" just like I did when I was a kid!

Ooops forgot temperment. THey are sweet, the babies. The grownups are skittish. I have kept the three we are keeping as humans in separate boxes and have bought them to the pet store, kept them from each other for a couple weeks, they would swim alone, etc. they mingled with US only. Now, they come when they are called and will probably never mate with a duck. (good thing too)