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Saturday, 3 December 2011
Eight New Babies
Our 8 new babies are growing so fast!
They eat like tiny horses, and poo worse than cows!
But for all that they are totally adorable.
They had their morning swim today and I noticed tiny white tail feathers. Awwww!
They eat like tiny horses, and poo worse than cows!
But for all that they are totally adorable.
They had their morning swim today and I noticed tiny white tail feathers. Awwww!
Perfection or what?
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Ace and Others
So the first of the eggs started to hatch - great excitement!
We had grown a duck!!
But one was all we did manage to grow - the other 4 were DIS (dead in shell). They were given a burial at sea in the pond near our house.
But we had Ace.
We tried to vent-sex, and as nothing 'popped out' we determined it to be a girl.
After a day or two we began to wonder how all this lovely bronze fluff became white feather. Then we realised it didn't. What we had was not an Aylesbury but a Khaki Campbell. OH NO!!! How are we supposed to have a business called Puddleducks 4 Pets when we don't have a puddleduck?!
The person I bought them from sent me 6 more eggs, but we needed Puddleducks NOW.....Steve managed to track down a lady in Essex who breeds Aylesburys and we bought some 5 day old ones from her. There should have been 6, but we couldn't leave behind the 2 who had been down-pecked by a gosling. So we brought 8 home!
We had grown a duck!!
But one was all we did manage to grow - the other 4 were DIS (dead in shell). They were given a burial at sea in the pond near our house.
But we had Ace.
We tried to vent-sex, and as nothing 'popped out' we determined it to be a girl.
After a day or two we began to wonder how all this lovely bronze fluff became white feather. Then we realised it didn't. What we had was not an Aylesbury but a Khaki Campbell. OH NO!!! How are we supposed to have a business called Puddleducks 4 Pets when we don't have a puddleduck?!
The person I bought them from sent me 6 more eggs, but we needed Puddleducks NOW.....Steve managed to track down a lady in Essex who breeds Aylesburys and we bought some 5 day old ones from her. There should have been 6, but we couldn't leave behind the 2 who had been down-pecked by a gosling. So we brought 8 home!
DUCK PILE!!!
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Monday, 31 October 2011
In The Beginning.....
.....there were 5 little eggs.
There should have been 6 but one got killed in the post :-(
After 7 days in the incubator the remaining 5 were growing.
They are turned every morning (wide awake faces) and evening (nan-night faces). Each time I greet them with Good Morning/Night Me Ducks (slipping into a little Leicester-ese there.
They can hear me you know.
They were candled at Day 7 and will be again at Day 14 - this Thursday. I must try to remember to take a photo...............
There should have been 6 but one got killed in the post :-(
After 7 days in the incubator the remaining 5 were growing.
They can hear me you know.
They were candled at Day 7 and will be again at Day 14 - this Thursday. I must try to remember to take a photo...............
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