The Duck Thread

[Chrysolinsbirds]

The buff bunch taking the path to the big pond, stopped to Bob their heads at me lol

My chocolate runner duckling is feathering in very nicely hatched at Easter and boy can she QUACK lol

Jemimah and puddle duck on their morning stroll through the garden =)

 

[Kathy farms]

The buff bunch taking the path to the big pond, stopped to Bob their heads at me lol

My chocolate runner duckling is feathering in very nicely hatched at Easter and boy can she QUACK lol


Jemimah and puddle duck on their morning stroll through the garden =)

Nice babies you've got there.

 

[City farm]

The buff bunch taking the path to the big pond, stopped to Bob their heads at me lol

My chocolate runner duckling is feathering in very nicely hatched at Easter and boy can she QUACK lol

Jemimah and puddle duck on their morning stroll through the garden =)

How awesome!! Do they lay in the same spot all the time? Or do you have to go looking for their egg's?

 

[City farm]

WVduckchick, who is your whitish girl with the eyeliner? She's cute! Well, they all are, but yeah..... My three babies hanging out at the pond. My (mallard?) Jill, Freddy the Pekin, and I am hoping that Cayuga in the back is Posie instead of Edgar Alan Poe. However, he has started making a whistling noise instead of peeping, so I think I have two boys

Wow, yours are beautiful. My one with the eyeliner is Opie, my crested baby. They are all Swedish, I suppose I got more of the splash genes in 2 of mine, and ended up with more white than the others. Chibs is almost completely white, with just some black on the base of his back and tail. Opie is about half & half! First a couple baby pics, just for fun: This is Chibs, he was the last hatchling. And these are Opie: I think they were a couple weeks old here: And more recently:

THess photo's are tough to look at!! To cute.. If we only had more room.

 

[WVduckchick]

The buff bunch taking the path to the big pond, stopped to Bob their heads at me lol

My chocolate runner duckling is feathering in very nicely hatched at Easter and boy can she QUACK lol


Jemimah and puddle duck on their morning stroll through the garden =)

Don't the head-bobs just melt your heart?? And I love the blacks and different colors, but that chocolate is gor-ge-ous! Very sweet babies!

 

[sugarstark]

I love how ducklings really LOOK at you, melts my heart.

 

[Y-Knot]

I feel for you @WVduckchick ! I obsessed over Tater being a male or female. I was sure I could wish him into a girl, alas, not to be. Since they're WH, I even had bill colors I could sex them by! But oops, that's only the first 2-5 days and only 90% of them have the sex linked bill coloring.

So now I sit and watch my neighbors drake WEARING OUT the rest of their flock and try to figure out how I'm going to either separate mine or talk the DH into more females. Not sure which will be harder to do. Lol. Of course, I vote for more females!

Tater and Tot are 10 weeks on Saturday!!!! Holy cow, I can't believe that. They're not quite fully feathered, not sure that's normal, but they're growing on along so not really worried. For once! Lol. They're DYING to figuring the flying thing out. Tot was flapping her wings, running down the hill right at me, when suddenly, that famous Kansas wind gave her a bit of a push. We both got wide eyed. I know that because I was sitting on an 18in wooden box and her wide eyes were looking right into my wide eyes! Lol. We both bailed in diff directions (thank you Lord) and looked at each other like, let's not try that again.....

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Hi @Miss Lydia ! Thought I'd tell you what the dd told me the other day.... Her 4th grade class is doing a Cinderella story based on something in their life. She's doing "A Rouen Cinderella Story." Thought that was pretty cute, then thought, we don't have rouens....! Why not a WH Cinderella?! Tot's pretty. Why not her?

Ha ha. I'll take whatever duck she shows interest in! My neighbor's rouens are sweethearts, so fine by me!
Here's pics from yesterday:




COMIN AT YA!!! Lol

I didn't get THAT mad at her for flying at me.... She's just preening. Heh heh



I THINK I CAN, I THINK I CAN.... (So far, he can't. Lol) sure hope I'm not on HIS big ole flight path when HE catches air! Yikes! He's not the sharpest tack in the box.

Mine do the flapping thing when I turn them out in the morning. Feels really nice with all those fans cooling me off at once. I have quite a motley crew but I think the most beautiful of them all is going to be the WHs.

I had a couple KC who would flap right along over the ground. A couple of them did turn out to be able to fly over some fences and one flew right over my office building. Every time they would fly out of the yard they would act like they needed to be very careful the next couple days in case they got in trouble. ... As though I'd ever punish them!

 

[Chrysolinsbirds]

How awesome!! Do they lay in the same spot all the time? Or do you have to go looking for their egg's?

Usually they do, I'll get a random one on the path in the direction of where they lay but I walk them into the coops at night and they usually lay before I let them out in the morning =)

 

[Chrysolinsbirds]

Don't the head-bobs just melt your heart??  And I love the blacks and different colors, but that chocolate is gor-ge-ous!  Very sweet babies!

The head bobbing is priceless especially when they get excited and can't seem to stop quacking lol
I got lucky with the runners, I have a pair of slightly off chocolates and I've been hatching amazing blue and chocolates =)

 

[RedIII]

Oh my goodness WVduckchick, Opie is a doll! I love the pictures.

Chrysolinsbirds, I'm loving the pictures of your flock, too!

And can't remember who else put theirs up.....shoot......