my duckies

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I'm Minxy I have 1 duck called Daffy :roll: she was given to us off a friend as she needed someone to look after her while she was away, in the end she couldn't take her back as she seemed so happy here :)

anyway a few years later and she is a bit of a rudie , we get wild mallards come to our pond every spring and she started playing with them in the rude way :roll: but they didnt look like they played with her proper, she is a very broody duck so we felt mean her sat on her eggs for so long with no result sooooooooooo when she sat on her eggs for ages I realised I could buy fertile eggs :shock: so I thought what a great way for her 2 have babies so I bought 4 :) when they arrived in post we went to Daffy to let her out 2 wet belly (and swap eggs :-)10 ) and we opened the hatch to find these little duckies
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so I'm stood like a muppet with 4 eggs in hand wondering what 2 do :-)19 so I started looking for incubator with no luck but my friend said her hen is broody so I give them her (didn't think these eggs would work due 2 them coming from so far away in post but hey ho)

5th I get phone call 'hurry up 2 farm we have ducklings' :shock: all 4 hatched :shock:

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someone then supplied a incubator and I thought ohhhh ermmm I have no eggs now they all hatched, he said ahhh have these so u can still try it :shock: give me 12 eggs :-)17 they have been in for 2 days so far :)

so thats me and the ducks :) I also have 2 goats called Barry and Eric :) and a hedgehog called Trevor :D
 
ducklings are so cute i have 8 at mo. i put in 25 eggs but only 8 hatched iv 1 brown mix breed 3 cay--- and 4 white alsbury. my duck went broody for 2 days then changed her mind so put the eggs in inc
 
well Daffy had 5 but 1 had died later that day I think Daffy stood on the lil fella but the other 4 were a success and they are nearly fully grown, then I have my 4 alyesbury ducklings (if they are what they were sold as) who are 3 days old and I also have 10 in incubator which are all mixed ducks :) hope they turn out well as my 4 ducklings were under a broody hen
 
I have a male mallard and a female khaki campbell and I really keep thinking about letting her sit on her eggs, but have nowhere to keep ducklings...not that it matters atm, she hasn't started laying yet, think she is 9/10 weeks old atm, how old when they start laying?
 
Beautiful ducklings! One of my muscovy ducks hatched 4 earlier this year, now they are all flying! :D
 
That is so lovely, and your duck and ducklings are all absolutely GORGEOUS!!! :)
 
Those lovely pics make me want some duckies even more! We have space for them .a stream and a pondy /boggy area (the wild mallard like it). BUT -----the foxes also live there sadly! I have to keep the chooks right by the house , I just can't keep ducks even though in all other ways I have a lovely spot for them.
:( :( Ros
 
It's always a great sight to see when a born duckling is sat with its mother when you go open the duck house first thing in the morning. :-)17
 
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