Ducklings Week 8: Duck Personalities
Time since hatch day: 7 weeks and 2 days The ducks are growing bigger and hungrier every day. Our supply of vegetables is depleted very quickly these days. Just between […]
Time since hatch day: 7 weeks and 2 days The ducks are growing bigger and hungrier every day. Our supply of vegetables is depleted very quickly these days. Just between […]
The ducklings are exactly 7 weeks old today. To me they seem equivalent to humans in their mid-teens; they are eating all the time, their voices are changing, they want […]
When do Mallards learn to fly? I tried to find this out on the internet but most information is either conflicting or anecdotal. I would say it depends on circumstances […]
I got up late today, at almost 10 am. The ducks always seem to know when we wake – they can see us through the windows or perhaps hear us. […]
The ducks are almost 7 weeks old and their flight feathers seem quite fully formed, but are not quite ready to fly yet. They however seem to feel the need […]
It is quite a scandal – our ducks are almost 7 weeks old, and we haven’t even given them official names yet. The nicknames “Baby” and “Quakie” have already got […]
Baby seems to be doing much better today. She is now able to put a little weight on the injured foot, and has graduated from a one-leg hop to a […]
Warning: This post mentions duck poop – if you are offended by such references, just skip to the next post 🙂 Ducklings eat like monsters, and no wonder, because they […]
The ducks have been very adventurous of late; they go on excursions several times a day, sneaking under the chain link fence to go explore the wheat field, or our […]
Our ducklings are already 6 weeks old and getting bigger and stronger every day. They have matured not just physically but in other ways – they now know how to […]