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!!!
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