What in Ducky Heck is this!?

[DuckyDoodles]

200 wow that may give a belly ache from the bellies dragging on the ground after.

Is that your small pond?? Oh my goodness ducks, geese and me beautiful

Awww, thank you! it's our 'front pond' that sits off to the side of our driveway a ways. The back biggun' pond is a ways off from the houses (we've got a main house and a guest house that I stash my mom in... LOL... she has Multiple Sclerosis so she's pretty wheelchair bound. So we outfitted that place to be handicapped accessible... anyways, I just didn't want to sound snobby with a guest house... im not and very far from it )

But! I will take a pic and attach it here of the pond that OG (the duck at center of this post) lived and survived on for who knows how long... it's pretty cool.

 

[casportpony]

@New2DuckyDoodles , if you're having trouble with CVS, have your vet call in a script to Road Runner. They are a veterinary pharmacy in Arizona and overnight new scripts for free. https://www.roadrunnerpharmacy.com/

 

[DuckyDoodles]

@New2DuckyDoodles , if you're having trouble with CVS, have your vet call in a script to Road Runner. They are a veterinary pharmacy in Arizona and overnight new scripts for free. https://www.roadrunnerpharmacy.com/

SUPER helpful! I might have to use them in the future. They just got the script filled yesterday apparently. So that was a 3 day wait But! I just confirmed they have them ready and should only cost about $30. I’m okay with that price. My Rottweiler has a something or another spondylitis and when it flairs up we have a doggy script for pain meds. Only thing is, is that they’re also meds humans get prescribed (tramadol) so when I went to fill 150 of them under the name of Bronx, I got a funny side eye. (He’s 130 pounds so he got adult doses seemingly).So I keep the vet appt summary paper in the ziploc with his med bottles so people don’t think I’m some sort of junkie. Not knowing what the vet wrote for the duck, I might do the same .

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good thing she wasn't in extreme pain. Of course hard to know they hide it so well

 

[DuckyDoodles]

Here’s some cutesie little pics of the two doodles playing in mud. They’ve been in the pond, on the bank, playing in puddles, playing in mud... it’s been heartwarming to watch them get to do their ducky thing. Don’t know how I’m going to get them out though... hadn’t had super amounts of training yet. They would follow to/from screened porch to their run but it isn’t nearly the distance. And there was no pond to entice them LOL

Oh and @Miss Lydia, here’s the back pond. I did panoramic photos so they’re a little wonky but whatever... technology.

 

[Miss Lydia]

What a beautiful place you live just perfect for water fowl and of course people. lol
Start your training by getting some dried meal worms or whole corn put it into a empty coffee can or something that will make noise when you shake it. Then start your training. Go out with can start shaking and whistling when they get to you give them a treat. Start close to them and work you way of a few days to where you lock them up at night. They really learn quick and thrive on repetition. when I let mine outside of the fence to mess around and I need to get them back inside this is what I use.

 

[onaharley]

What a beautiful place you live just perfect for water fowl and of course people. lol
Start your training by getting some dried meal worms or whole corn put it into a empty coffee can or something that will make noise when you shake it. Then start your training. Go out with can start shaking and whistling when they get to you give them a treat. Start close to them and work you way of a few days to where you lock them up at night. They really learn quick and thrive on repetition. when I let mine outside of the fence to mess around and I need to get them back inside this is what I use.

Yep! Doesn't matter what they are doing.....I shake my bag of mealworms.......they come a running! Works every night to put them to bed, mostly because they know they are going to get some!

 

[onaharley]

Oh, btw....your place looks amazing!!! You need more ducks!!!

 

[DuckyDoodles]

@Miss Lydia and @onaharley

That’s how I had been training them to go to/from the porch and run. I’d get a big ol’ scooper and fill it with some kibble to make some noise. They’d follow, begrudgingly and at a distance, but they’d still come and that’s all I was focused on LOL

duck wrangling is hard when it’s just hubs and I because he has to use a cane (Afghanistan injury, not old or decrepit yet lol) so he’s just trying to shoo them with a cane. They shoo’d alright. Complete opposite direction lol. So I got it down where it’s just me that does the wrangling (they tolerate me far better than him or kid) and it’s just lots of positive encouragement and inward biting of tongue due to me wanting to say “oh come on already!”

But! I will share and interesting tidbit of the day... they started walking up the yard towards the driveway around 4-ish and now I’m not certain where they aimed to go but I just jumped on the opportunity since they were away from the pond. Had to get kiddo involved because they were still kinda dingy broads about the whole thing (in fairness it was their first trip that way). But we managed to get both of them back in the porch and locked up *WHEW*

And, in the process of tidying up their dormitory on the porch, I found that OG finally dropped her soggy diaper egg. LoL

Oh! And I have a question for poop counselor @casportpony ... wanted to let you know I made it several pages in to your poop thread back in January when my dearly departed Pekin was beginning some issues. I will say it was totally enthralling which is weird since it’s poop but I like to know things LOL

Anyways. So while wrangling the ducks to the porch, my horny raper Pekin, Patty, blew out a poo. Mostly water, some mud and something that looked like a worm. I will include pic of said questionable worm. I’m just curious if this is a worm she could’ve eaten or if it’s (god forbid at this point) an intestinal worm?

The water and mud didn’t bother me one bit. The worm had me alarmed. I don’t yet know all of the acceptable worm appearances....

 

[shawluvsbirds]

@Miss Lydia and @onaharley

That’s how I had been training them to go to/from the porch and run. I’d get a big ol’ scooper and fill it with some kibble to make some noise. They’d follow, begrudgingly and at a distance, but they’d still come and that’s all I was focused on LOL

duck wrangling is hard when it’s just hubs and I because he has to use a cane (Afghanistan injury, not old or decrepit yet lol) so he’s just trying to shoo them with a cane. They shoo’d alright. Complete opposite direction lol. So I got it down where it’s just me that does the wrangling (they tolerate me far better than him or kid) and it’s just lots of positive encouragement and inward biting of tongue due to me wanting to say “oh come on already!”

But! I will share and interesting tidbit of the day... they started walking up the yard towards the driveway around 4-ish and now I’m not certain where they aimed to go but I just jumped on the opportunity since they were away from the pond. Had to get kiddo involved because they were still kinda dingy broads about the whole thing (in fairness it was their first trip that way). But we managed to get both of them back in the porch and locked up *WHEW*

And, in the process of tidying up their dormitory on the porch, I found that OG finally dropped her soggy diaper egg. LoL

Oh! And I have a question for poop counselor @casportpony ... wanted to let you know I made it several pages in to your poop thread back in January when my dearly departed Pekin was beginning some issues. I will say it was totally enthralling which is weird since it’s poop but I like to know things LOL

Anyways. So while wrangling the ducks to the porch, my horny raper Pekin, Patty, blew out a poo. Mostly water, some mud and something that looked like a worm. I will include pic of said questionable worm. I’m just curious if this is a worm she could’ve eaten or if it’s (god forbid at this point) an intestinal worm?

The water and mud didn’t bother me one bit. The worm had me alarmed. I don’t yet know all of the acceptable worm appearances....

I don't see a worm