That is his name and he is truly a young Pekin drake and truly a dirty duck...all the other Pekins are blindingly white as tho dipped in Clorox...they bathe and preen...always doing the in out in out of the pool...well, dirty duck gets in the pool when the others do, but he acts like he is afraid of the water...never gets off the brick step provided for them to get out...dabbles frantically and out of the pool he jumps, lays in the dirt and has a forever greyish dirty undercarriage...I moved the ducks and the geese to a new area today and together...originally the geese hated the ducks and would drive them out of their area so I had locked them up side by side for about two weeks...they became accustomed to each other and when I mvoed them to the big yard today, together, they are just fine...well, I filled two big kiddy pools so each would have their own...working out well...back to Dirty Duck...he got in the pool and got knocked off the brick when all the others decided to get out in a hurry and get around or back to, grazing...Dirt Duck could not figure out how to get back on the brick and get out of the pool as all the other ducks had gone to the opposite side of the pool on the outside and meandered off...he was on that side of the pool screaming cause he could not get out...Roseanne was screaming back at him and worried about him...he could not figure it out...I had to go get him out of the pool...he was scared half to death but he must have known I was there to help as in his fear, he stayed where I could reach him...lifted him out and he was water logged...a ton of water ran out of his feathers...I released him and he ran as fast as his little legs could carry him to the other ducks...the geese were watching the entire thing highly amused and yes, Dirty Duck is still dirty...what is wrong with this big ninny of a water fowl that he is afraid of the water and chooses to be yucky looking rather than pristene like his friends?
