Re: Ducklings Indy, they would feel at home in your weather right now! Peas are a terrific training tool for ducks. They just can't get enough of them
Re: Ducklings [quote author=Oberon link=topic=3806.msg53934#msg53934 date=1392236686] Peas are a terrific training tool for ducks. [/quote] How much can you train ducks?
Re: Ducklings Probably a fair bit. I only train mine to come when called and to eat out of my hand. As long as it was based on a natural behaviour there's no reason why you couldn't train ducks to do various things on cue with a clicker. Chickens can be clicker trained quite easily to peck different colours and shapes, for example (because, as birds, they are good with visual stuff).
Re: Ducklings Go easy, I don't even spend enough time training the poor dog ;D Here's Woodget! Woodget, as mentioned previously, has a nice straight bill that is not too long. It's a bit hard to tell just from this photo but you can trust me on that. Her bill is lighter in colour at the front because she has been digging in the mud and this wears away a bit of the darker blue. She also has very little white under her chin, which is very good. Overall, she has a very nice head (from a breed standards perspective). On the downside, her bib is very small. But it is neat, which is good She still has some of her yellow baby fuzz, which looks green against the blue. Woodget, you have some pea on your bill!! As you can see, Woodget does not have any white feathers on her wings. That is a bit of a shame, as I would not show her without white flight feathers. But that doesn't mean her offspring won't have them. Incidentally, Harrison does have white flights. I have on;y been able to tell recently, as she is so pale all round. Had to wait till her wing feathers grew a bit. This is Woodget, back on the ground, having words with her mother, Duyfken, who is outside the fence. Duyfken wants to know why all the peas are on the inside of the fence. Woodget is telling her to get lost. The other blue duck is Solander, the indoor ducklings' daddy and brother to Ariel and Temeraire. Duyfken is looking very shaggy because she is moulting at the moment. And here's a quick one of Meriwether (with Ariel and his fabulous bib to Meri's right) who is just starting to get a bit of a green sheen to his head. As a black drake, he will have a beautiful, shiny green head when he grows up. The blue and silver drakes do not get this - it's special to the black boys.
Re: Ducklings Well, Woodget, you may not be perfect, but you are very pretty! Sounds like she is a budding teenager telling her mum off ;D
Re: Ducklings What's that dirty yellow thing crawling around in the muck under our house? [cue Temeraire hissing at it like an irate goose] It seems to be stuck [cue yellow thing whining and moaning because it has eaten all the poo and now it wants to get out but it can't work out how] Maybe some dried liver will entice it from its lair. I see a bath in its near future :
Re: Ducklings Oh Obi, you are such an outstandingly good-looking dog... even with the duck poop / mud shmear.... Clare
Re: Ducklings Thanks for the solidarity He'll be wanting to get on our bed in a minute. His fur smells too. Hubby was meant to give him a bath but he only hosed his feet :
