duck & drake

henry

henry

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Today we picked up a 12 week old Ayelsbury and same Welsh Harlequin. Let them go in the back garden and the harlequin ran into a rose bush got a thorn in its leg and started bleeding everywhere within 5 minutes. My son is in the red cross and a neighbour is a nurse cleaned his leg and dressed it with a small bandage. spent 4 hours making a duck house, out of an old paste table and some tongue and groove wood and pond liner to waterproof it, exhausted now.
Pete
 
iv got an old dog kennel that mine live in
you should try a bit of honey under bandage it relly works when my flower was attacked she was bad i thought i was going to loose her i honey wrapped her for 3 days (all her back was ripped open) a year later shes in tip top condtion
 
Welcome to the never ending world of duck care!
Pond building tomorrow then? Follwed by fox proofing, ant and lawn protection, duck house cleaning, trips to feed store, pond cleaning.... And the list goes on!
But they will be worth every penny you spend and every hour you toil.
They will bring you much joy!
Zo
 
Know the feeling! Just spent ages trying to get our pesky young Muscovies down of our roof, they thought it was a marvellous new game! :D
Hope your duck leg heals...and you get a good nights sleep! :D
 
Thanks everyone, we have a paddling pool and a 3ft deep pool, but we have also got 3 chickens.
After 20 minutes of the ayelsbury quacking we put the welsh harlequin (not that i am telling my wife) Drake back in with her and she went quiet at once, we are going to have a go at having a clutch and see how they get on, as we think the deformed beak might have been caused at birth we will just have to wait and see. I just hope any get the mothers brains as the Harlequin seems to be as daft as they come, when they tried to catch them at the farm, this one ran into the cat carrier instead of away. Then again he was named quackers.
Pete
 
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