The Quack Shack

[Jenbirdee]

So is our older drake apparently, the last 10 days or so it's just ducks running away screaming all day long...

Today duck house #3 was completed to house the Welshies of which we intend to keep 5.

This liberated the apple crates in the garage so the little 3 week old Khakis can move in.

I don't think we'll repeat the exercise of hatching another batch of eggs directly after the first one ... It's just too much work with 2 generations growing up with different needs, ducks in the morning, ducks in the evening, ducks all over the day. Would work if we had nothing else to do but as it is, in the future we'll take a month or so between the batches.

I’m in the same boat

 

[Jenbirdee]

I love them there's a Cayuga in there somewhere

Yes the Dad is half Cayuga and half FWRunner. The two large babies mother is in Ancona. The small gray baby her mother is full Cayuga. She is actually the mother and the grandmother of that one because she’s my Drake’s dad too. Weird huh?

 

[Supercow]

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I’m in the same boat

I can't possibly lay eat him but I could give him away to someone who could.

 

[Supercow]

One of our 2024 Khaki ladies has decided to sit. At first I ignored it because I was familiar with how her older friends would pretend to sit for an hour and then get bored and leave, and on and off like that for a number of days.

However this one has sat straight from the evening into the next day, only coming out to have a drink and a bite, and seems quite determined. Sometimes our serial rapist older drake will come into the house and annoy her and she comes out screaming but again, she returns.

I have no idea how this will turn out since even if she does her full hatching term, we've had so many problems with upside-down ducklings etc... But we've just gone through 2 hatches in the incubator and have kinda had our fill of ducklings for this year so we'll just let her do her thing.

 

[Supercow]

Duck house #3 the grand opening -- the Welshies have a home Not super pretty but it will work.

 

[Supercow]

One of our 2024 Khaki ladies has decided to sit. At first I ignored it because I was familiar with how her older friends would pretend to sit for an hour and then get bored and leave, and on and off like that for a number of days.

However this one has sat straight from the evening into the next day, only coming out to have a drink and a bite, and seems quite determined. Sometimes our serial rapist older drake will come into the house and annoy her and she comes out screaming but again, she returns.

I have no idea how this will turn out since even if she does her full hatching term, we've had so many problems with upside-down ducklings etc... But we've just gone through 2 hatches in the incubator and have kinda had our fill of ducklings for this year so we'll just let her do her thing.

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A friend is helping out overnight

 

[Luv Ducks]

A friend is helping out overnight

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Hopefully you can keep the drake away from her as he will try his best to get her away from the babies or possibly even destroy the nest so he can still mate with her. They seem to have only one thing on their minds, lol.

 

[Supercow]

Hopefully you can keep the drake away from her as he will try his best to get her away from the babies or possibly even destroy the nest so he can still mate with her. They seem to have only one thing on their minds, lol.

The drake in her house is super gentle, he only goes into action if he gets the nod (literally).

The other one is a rapist and has recently found out that it's possible to just walk into a house that's not yours... But I think that if I open the gate to the outside orchard immediately in the morning that will distract him enough.

 

[Luv Ducks]

The drake in her house is super gentle, he only goes into action if he gets the nod (literally).

The other one is a rapist and has recently found out that it's possible to just walk into a house that's not yours... But I think that if I open the gate to the outside orchard immediately in the morning that will distract him enough.

I hope that it does. Some can be left with the hens and others will go as far as to kill the babies when they are hatched out. Hopefully yours will do good with her.