...except they are not great flyers. They make it to about their tip toes
but their heart is there.
Lol! It's probably best they are not great fliers, you would be chasing them all over and then clipping their pretty wings. As long as they have the right attitudes and make you happy, that's all that matters. I have 2 crested Peking, 1 crested mallard, 3 Cayugas, all female, and 1 Cayuga drake that isn't mature yet. The 3 cresteds are mature and laying, the 4 Cayugas are younger but running with the cresteds and loving life, none of my ducks are very friendly, but I enjoy watching their antics anyway and I love the tasty eggs. I have a goose that loves climbing in my lap and snuggling, and a gander than likes to lean on me for scratches, so I get all the cuddling I want from them.
My cresteds are named Daisy duck (the largest named by my kids), Ivory (again named by kids), and Ebony (named by me, her original name was Brownie but I did not like that). I am trying to think of names for the Cayugas, they have gorgeous green abd purple highlights on their heads and wings. I'm kinda leaning towards Jaden for the male. My kids want me to name the females, Sapphire, Emerald, and either Amethyst or Jade. I don't know why they want jewel like names, maybe their colors, lol. But I think Jade and Jaden is way to close sounding. The geese have a hodpodge of names, we have Snow, Jasmine, Peaches, Cream, Maybel, Jezzabelle, Gertrude, and Noel. Noel is not going to be staying with us much longer. Snow and Noel are both ganders, the rest are supposedly females. If I can't find Noel a home, and I'm willing to send 1 companion with him, then he is going to end up on the Christmas dinner table. Noel is too friendly to end up as dinner though, so I am trying to find him a home where he can live a long, happy life. We also have 26 chickens, but only 3 of them have names, we have Screwball the head rooster, Smoke the younger but larger rooster, and Queeny the head hen who was named by my dad, lol. Add in our 6 dogs and 5 cats and we have a zoo here, lol. I get hours of enjoyment just being with my animals.
