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Our baby ducks are here

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bargainaddict
bargainaddict Posts: 534 Forumite
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Hi, I am so excited, so sorry if I've posted in the wrong place, but FINALLY our babies have started to arrive. So far we have 2 yellow ones and 1 brown. They have been sitting on 13 eggs so not sure how many we will get. They are so tiny and cute and worn out from the hard work of hatching. Both the females have been sitting on the nest so the babies looked squashed!

Can't wait till tomorrow when todays hatchings will be moving around the pen.

Anyway, just wanted to share my excitement. Bye::D
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  • Queenie
    Queenie Posts: 8,793 Forumite
    :T :T :T That's wonderful news and very exciting! My friend has just hatched 30 quail eggs in an incubator so I understand your excitement :T :T :T
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  • Penny-Pincher!!
    Penny-Pincher!! Posts: 8,325 Forumite
    Fabulous news! I was bought up on a duckfarm that my folks used to own for the first 13 years of my life.

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  • dorsetmiss_2
    dorsetmiss_2 Posts: 697 Forumite
    Awwwww...some pics would be nice.....:T
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  • mistresslenore
    mistresslenore Posts: 350 Forumite
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    Hope the following thread helps
    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=206970

    Sorry I couldn't help it, post some pictures I bet they're gorgeous!!
    With Love From The Mistress xx :p

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  • troll35
    troll35 Posts: 712 Forumite
    reminds me, last week I went out running and when we stopped for a quick breather and stretch at a canal bridge we were suddenly surrounded by some proud parents and a bunch of 9 ducklings (that had perfected the art of begging!!). Of the 9, eight were standard brown and one was a really pale yellow. There were several comments on the lines of 'that's the milkman's:)'
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  • SnowyOwl_2
    SnowyOwl_2 Posts: 5,257 Forumite
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    mistresslenore wrote:
    Hope the following thread helps
    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=206970

    Sorry I couldn't help it, post some pictures I bet they're gorgeous!!

    :eek::eek::eek: Noooo!!!!

    Don't worry mistresslenore I know you're just having a laugh. The ducklings will one day end up on a plate as that's reality. But like any living creature they deserve to have a life first, poor wee things....awww. The thought of eating a baby animal or bird makes me want to throw up.

    A couple of years ago I had to do a fairly sudden stop in a main road - there was a mummy duck leading her six little baby ducklings from one side of the road to the other. Sooo cute...but so dangerous for them. At least the traffic did stop and they made it across.

    I do hope some pictures get posted.
  • bargainaddict
    bargainaddict Posts: 534 Forumite
    Hi Guys, I'm not very technical, so hubby will do the photos for me, hopefully might get some tomorrow. My girls are so excited, I thought I was bad!!!

    We have put a small bowl of water ready for them so mum can teach them to drink and get their feet wet. They cant go on the main pond for a few days as the mum has to oil their feathers so they dont go soggy.

    I cant wait for the morning to see how many more we got. We heard another shell cracking earlier so def one more.:j
  • bargainaddict
    bargainaddict Posts: 534 Forumite
    Forgot to say, if you have any good tips Penny-Pincher they would be gratefully received.

    No offence taken at the chicken recipe, he he!!

    We have 3 adults, a white male called Berty, a white female called Gerty and a brown one called Betty. We will keep 1 of the babies (don't know how we will choose, but garden is not enormous). Berty and Gerty are named after my Mum and OH Dad and heaven knows where Betty came from!!
  • melancholly
    melancholly Posts: 7,457 Forumite
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    i'd also love to see photos of the little baby ducklings! we used to see them every summer at university, wandering around - now I'm in a big city there's not much chance of accidently seeing any!

    congratulations!!
    :happyhear
  • bargainaddict
    bargainaddict Posts: 534 Forumite
    We have 5 this morning. Hubby taken pictures and he will put photos on this afternoon. They are soooooooo cute. Trying to flap their tiny wings, they are climbing all over the 2 mums who don't seem to mind. There is another egg that is cracking so should be number 6 soon.

    I just want to sit out there and watch them. Kids didn't want to go to work/college/school this morning.
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