Posting will be light for at least a week, as duck farming is proving more time-consuming than I anticipated. Please bear with me, as I’ll be back. In the meantime, I’ve asked Greg and Matthew to pick up some of the slack if they have time.
The good news is that all of Dorothy’s ten babies are healthy, vigorous, and eating very well. But Honey is still sitting on her nest, and who knows what awaits?
Two days old!
Babies underneath getting warm, dry, and oiled:
Everybody loves watching ducklings. Sometimes the crowds can be a bit overwhelming!
I’ll be damned if I let this be the first post ever on this website to garner no comments. LOOK AT MY DUCKS!!!!!
Looking!
Duckfather!
adorable
Just like Jerry…
Lovely photos – and much better weather than here in the UK, where it has been a national holiday (perhaps why there have been fewer comments than usual?) and so naturally it has been cold, wet, and miserable all day.
Like me!
I know those cypresses are valued by the University at several thousand dollars each. What are the ducks worth?
Depends on the denomination of their bills! (My apologies in advance…)
“All healthy.”
But what about the guy with the game leg? Is he still at rehab?
I don’t know; they don’t keep track of individual ducks at Willowbrook.
☹️😔 poor Leggy!
“Free as a bird
It’s the next best thing to be
Free as a bird.
Home, home and dry
Like a homing bird I’ll fly
As a bird on wings” The Beatles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODIvONHPqpk
Just checking in late, Boss! Love the duck updates. They add great joy to my day, so many thanks for your devotion to these adorable critters. Can’t wait to see Honey and her brood do the Great Leap Forward!
Looks like Dorothy might have a chance to keep her brood this year, if she gets enough of a head start on Super-Mom Honey.
I hope so, but Honey’s brood is due any day, and that’s only a three-day gap in the broods. Last year, with the ducknappings, it was a two-day gap. I’m quite nervous.
That “two days old” picture – omg it doesn’t get much cuter than that.
And people wearing shorts! No here, that’s for sure. I had the wood stove on last night.