My Ducks!

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I have 14 ducks, 8 of which hatched just last week.

The first one is Sweetpea, my 8 month old Crested Duck.




Then we Have Waddles My 8 month old Cayuga Drake. Waddles is big man on campus, such a gorgeous boy!




Here are all my Grown ups all together!!


and now for the Babies!!




This little one is a Baby Silver Appleyard Duck, I have two of these.

This is a Baby Pekin duck, we have 4 of these little ones.

and this is a Baby Mallard. we have 2 of these babys!


Ducks are such great pets! they are so amusing to watch, I can sit and watch them for hours! they have such awsome personalities! I love my Ducks!
 
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Originally Posted by chromodactyl

sorry one more post,im fascinated.what do your cats make of them?
The cats are very interested in the ducks! The babies are in the house in a brooder box for 4 weeks, so the cats sleep on top of the brooder box. They just watch these little guys all day long! When i let the ducks out of their box, so they can run around some, the cats run off! they are completely freaked when the ducks are lose.
 

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All your ducks are so gorgeous!! Waddles' green is so bright! and of course the little ducklings are so precious
 

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I just love foul of all kinds.
The only duck I've owned though was a complete mystery to me.
Near as I can tell, one of my neighbor's Pekin hens left an egg in one of my Banty hen's nests.
My little Banty raised the little duckling as her own and I ended up with a big white Pekin hen that was convinced she was a tiny Banty chicken
 

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You have beautiful ducks! I love the color of your crested!

I have 2 young Pekins right now...I picked them up at the local farm supply store. I have 1 adult Pekin and 4 mallard mixes as well. Ducks are fun! I have geese as well and if you happen to get a gander he will sure keep you on your toes!!! I have 9 geese and one gander and springtime is sure exciting around here...you have to keep an eye on him unless you don't mind bruised legs! Those guys really do "goose" you!
 

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Gorgeous! I love ducks, I would love to keep ducks soooo much! I regress into a complete child when I see ducks bibbling on a lake, especially if they have ducklings in tow - I can't help getting so excited to see them
 
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Originally Posted by Persi & Alley

Wow! How fascinating. I am wondering where you keep them.
we have a very nice coop that my hubby built for them. he is quite handy to have around!



other than that, they have free range of our 13 acres.
 

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Awww how adorable! I love the "hairstyle" on the first one - its like a little old man!


I love ducks as well - reminds me to go to the river and feed them!
 

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yr ducks as i said b4 are just "simply the best,better than all the rest,better than..."dont rememb the rest of the words. but I m yr biggest fan of yr ducks.You should find a duck forum too-make the rest of the ducks jealous
 
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