Snow - Pics and videos

[StevenW.]

awwww they r soooooo cute!!!!! i cant wait till we get snow here so my ducks will see it

 

[FunnyBunnies12]

This will be Ming-Ming and Oreo's 1st winter, so this should be fun to see. But I'm probably just keeping Oreo inside or on the deck because she can't afford to slip and slide and possibly fall and hurt her 1 leg. She is already getting wobbling enough on it.

 

[duckking]

Your ducks are so beautiful, Katharina!

We have 6" on the ground and it just started up again. Ducks were not sure what to do about the snow. Patted at it with their feet. Stuck their bills into it. Decided it wasn't all that interesting and spent most of their day in and out of the pool, the surface of which was frozen this AM. Ducks are nuts. I kept going out to check and make sure they didn't freeze into ducksicles! It's going down to 17F tonight so really padded their duck house with shavings and straw. I was going to bring them in, but everyone says they'll be fine.....you KNOW I'm going to be worrying about them all night....

 

[Robin'sBrood]

Wow, snow already? That is probably more than we get as a total most years! Enjoy it!! (It was in the low 70s here today.)

ETA, love the pics... GORGEOUS!

 

[katharinad]

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Thanks they are Saxony ducks. They are pretty quiet too, and very laid back. Mine were in the pool today for their last swim. It's to far from the house and the water hose is frozen now. We emptied the pool and flipped it over. Tomorrow it will be only 26 in daytime with stormy weather and temps dropping down to -3 in the night. We have been working on the small enclosure putting up hay bales to break the wind so they can be outdoors in the day, but I will leave the duck house door open so they can get out of the cold. Not sure what to do on Wednesday with only 18 as a daytime high. We will see, it also depends on the wind chill factor. Here is an image of what we did today. You see the bales, which I tied to the fence so they cannot fall onto a duck. The back gate has a sheet of plywood to cut the wind too. You see the duck house to the right with the small door that leads inside. I build a little wind tunnel inside of the duck house, so the wind cannot blow directly into the inside. A heater is on inside. To the left you see a shelter we build to get them out of the snow. The ground will be covered with hay. We did not put it out today because we are supposed to get up to 7 inches tonight. This means removing the snow and putting down hay first thing in the morning.

 

[gofasterstripe]

Thats just too cute, Lovely ducks you have Katherine

 

[Where The Wild Things Are]

Here is my little coop. The house shielded a lot of snow, but the coop and run still had nice think blanket of fresh snow.

 

[Where The Wild Things Are]

Meet Elliot and Oliver. They decided to sleep in their kiddie pool under our covered patio Saturday night (instead of in their pond). Sunday morning we awoke to 14" of fresh fluff. This is the first measurable snow they have seen, and they did not know what to think. They did not dare get off the patio...at first.

 

[Where The Wild Things Are]

Once I came out they decided to make a break for it...I can only imagine what they were thinking.

 

[Where The Wild Things Are]

Elliot decided it was just easier to let Oliver lead the way!