Post pics of your Swedish Blacks Or Mallards :)

[Ducks-love-me]

I own 6 little duckies. I will post pics soon! I would really like to see other people ducks and DUCKLINGS,

 

[Ducks-love-me]

@Amiga what ducks do you have?

 

[Amiga]

Buffs, like Hazel and

Runners, like Sechs and Elf.

 

[Ducks-love-me]

Aww they are adorable!!! I love runners what about you @Miss Lydia what do you have?

 

[Frank Phinster]

Very pretty birds, Amiga!
Is there any specific reason you name them after German numbers?

 

[Amiga]

Well, Frank Phinster, I contemplated what I had done, ordering ten runner ducklings, and just could not muster a whole lot of creativity for names. So I thought of numbering them. Then I thought, well, that seems kind of cold, somehow, and impersonal. Remember, this is not rational, here. Anyway, I thought numbers in a different language might sound nice. I thought of Spanish, but these girls did not strike me as Latina. No, they somehow seemed to be more German. So, German it was. The smallest one is Elf (11).

 

[Ducks-love-me]

Ohh I didn't even notice they were German numbers how very creative. my brother takes German. that was a great idea!

 

[Frank Phinster]

I like this naming system

Since German is my mother tongue the names of your ducks always stood out to me and I wondered how you came to this choice.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Aww they are adorable!!!

I love runners what about you @Miss Lydia what do you have?

I have 15 Muscovy's .

 

[Amiga]

Some of my extended family members are German, and they liked it, too! Now my nickname is Mutter Ente.

I learned how to say slug (Nacktschnecke - always have to look up the spelling) in German, and drink water. The ducks seem to know what wasser and wasser trinken mean.

And garden is just about the same in English and German, and the ducks know where the garten is.