Re: Ducklings Aww....need an ice-breaker Mum. (can I admit to getting bizarrely excited to see a post on the ducklings thread? When are you expecting a new clutch? )
Re: Ducklings I got all excited then seeing this post come up. Lol thought we might have had new babies ??? It's very cold. I have had to bleak the ice on Millys water bowls the last 3-4 days. Even the one under the veranda.
Re: Ducklings Yeesh, I didn't think it actually froze in Australia!! Poor ducks, were they confused about it all?? Lovely to see Temeraire.....
Re: Ducklings They love ice The cold doesn't bother them. Obi had to break the ice on the pond for them though, by stepping on it (not thick enough to hold a Labrador!). She's going really well, Lisa Very friendly girl who is always on the lookout for treats
Re: Ducklings [quote author=drjs@5 link=topic=3806.msg99729#msg99729 date=1407277628] Aww....need an ice-breaker Mum. (can I admit to getting bizarrely excited to see a post on the ducklings thread? When are you expecting a new clutch? ) [/quote] Me too,you know when you click on the tread and the first post comes up... 'Ive got four duck eggs in the incubator......' I got all excited....no pressure ducks and Rachael but you know ,we are ready when you are ready
Re: Ducklings Ice! Wow...did someone say ducks have a kind of anti-freeze in their feet or have I made that up? :
Re: Ducklings Haha, not antifreeze, just blood, but their blood vessels operate as a kind of heat exchange unit. Here's an article about it
Re: Ducklings Oooooo!!!!!!! How could you have kept this from us? I thought you'd been a bit quiet! Come on, more details. Let's have some close ups! How many do you have? Just those 3? What colour will they be? Are they from your own eggs? Who are the parents? No names. Right. Ok. No names.
Re: Ducklings Only 3. They only just came out of the incubator Two are blue and one will end up white (the yellow one). The yellow one and blue one with small bib are siblings to the Indoor Ducklings and the other blue one is a sibling to the Outdoor ducklings. The blue one with the small bib has a bit of an issue called 'stargazing' where they look up a lot and then fall backwards. It's fixed with vitamin B so that one is getting regular vitamins via eye dropper to the bill. Fingers crossed it should come good. I had actually had lots more eggs in the incubator from two other ducks - Trim and Temeraire. None of Trim's were fertile as she is too fat : (in ducks that hugely affects fertility). None of Temeraire's were fertile because she runs away from the drake : (she gets into the pond to get away as he doesn't like swimming and she knows she can avoid him that way....). Too clever!!
Re: Ducklings OMG you sly thing ;D Who are mummy and daddy then? That looks like a nice bib on the blue.......
Re: Ducklings Oh....exciting.....no names you think? Ha ha ha ;D Lovely fluff balls. That is so funny of Temeraire
Re: Ducklings The duckling with no name ... sounds like a bizarre Western (Bet you're now thinking about calling one Client!)
Re: Ducklings No names! Otherwise she might not give us any photos....careful, our next few months of duckling news is at stake here... I was just thinking "no name 1, 2 and 3".... ;D ;D ;D Oh....we're onto names really quite quickly, aren't we? ;D ;D ;D
Re: Ducklings Incorrigible!!!!! The yellow and small bibbed blue ones are the offspring of Duyfken and Solander (Solly). The big bibbed blue is the child of Tasman and Magellan (Jelly). I think that the big bib blue one is probably a boy, going on the bib, but I hope I'm wrong. If one of the chooks goes broody I might give her some eggs but we'll see - that won't happen till later in the year I don't think. At the moment they're mostly resting under their heat lamp. Tomorrow morning they can have their first swim.
Re: Ducklings [quote author=bbrown link=topic=3806.msg117402#msg117402 date=1413529972] OMG you sly thing ;D[/quote] Says she who was secretly harbouring a Clumber puppy And the bib on the big big blue does look promising, Barbara This is their house, in our lounge room: They are already attached to people and start to call out if we're too quiet. If you reply they twitter happily.
