Ducks
April 2, 2011
Penny's eggs hatched today. 14 Ducklings. Here's a picture of the new kids!. They sure are cute!
March 25, 2011
Penny decided she wanted to be a mommy the right way, so she's been sitting on a clutch of 15 eggs now for 3 weeks. We expect ducklings in about 10 more days!
December 9, 2010
PJ and Penny have a baby! Penny wasn't interested in sitting, so we shoved two duck eggs under a broody hen. Our new duck was born today.
September 15, 2010
PJ and Penny hang out in the yard with their pet dog Sniffers. Penny likes to chase Sniffers around the yard..
August 14, 2010
PJ and Penny venture into our fish pond. We have about 400 very large goldfish in our front yard pond. They enjoyed eating the many snails in the pond.
July 24, 2010
Now almost fully grown, PJ and Penny spash around in their pool. There's video of their play in the left menu if you're interested.
PJ spreads his wings and flaps about while swimming in his pool. He's almost full grown, and getting his final feather colors
June 30, 2010
Here's a picture of the completed duck pen. I'm sitting with them, watching them play in their swimming pool. They like it much!
PJ and Penny are a month old now. They have most of their feathers, and their markings sure make them look like buff orpingtons. They sure are cute!
June 17, 2010
Boy are these ducks growing fast. At this rate they'll be 6 foot tall and 400 pounds by the end of the summer. They are starting to get their feathers and seem to have the coloring of buff orpington ducks? We'll see. Son Hilary has named them PJ and Penny. He has commanded Sparrow to cut out a sign with their names on the plasma cutter!
Hilary and Sparrow started a duck enclosure. It's 16 feet in diameter with a nice 2 duck house and room for their new blue swimming pool.
June 10, 2010
It's time to let the quackers outside for a few hours a day. Sparrow whipped up this pentagon shaped enclosure out of some old 1/2 inch plywood. (That's a 40 meter vertical ham antenna in the background left)
Oh boy, a bigger swimming pool, we're going to enjoy this! Just deep enough for us to float around and practice our diving and breath holding!
Are you looking at me? I said, are you looking at me? Well OK then. Yet to be named quacker gets some pool time in.
June 8, 2010
I hold the ducks for a bit. We want them to be tame, so I spend a lot of time holding them and hand feeding them
Molly, meet the ducks. Ducks, meet Molly the goat. They'll all be friends I'm sure (At least I don't think goats like duck l'orange for a light snack)
June 6, 2010
The Quackers are growing fast! They will be fully grown at 6 weeks old, so we don't have much time to get them set up with a duck house. We already have a big pond they can use.
May 29, 2010
Sparrow came home from the farm store today with two baby ducks. I'd always wanted a pair of ducks for our pond. I'll put up duck photos as they grow up. For now, they're in the bathtub where we have our chicken brooder!
