RELEASE THE QUACKEN! When the pandemic began I had ZERO ducks A neighbor gave me an egg to incubate and I hatched out one duckling for her Super cute, tiny beak, tiny webbed feet. Adorable The neighbor gave me that duckling as a gift Tally 1 duckling I said, What can I do with one duck, when I have a yard full of chickens? Ducks (penises) and chickens (no penises) don’t mix well Ducks can kill chicken hens by mating them to death, or drowning them So, my neighbor’s solution - she gave me a second duckling Tally 2 ducklings Also Adorable. Super cute, tiny beak, tiny webbed feet. Then she gave me the parent ducks since the male bit her The males is a gorgeous limping Pekin male, the female is a TINY mallard Tally - 1 female, 1 male, 2 ??? The two ducklings turned out to both be males/drakes Tally - 1 female, 3 males I jokingly said to a friend, man if I wanted ducks I would have gotten Cayugas Cayuagas are black and iridescent green - very pretty So for my birthday, that friend gave me a Cayuga ducklings her sister had Tally - 1 female, 3 males, 1 ??? So, after wine I ordered crested ducklings from texas which were on sale They arrived looking ratty, punch drunk I ended up selling all of them that didn’t die Tally, unchanged I ordered more for myself and it took a month In the interim I ordered a dozen sexed female ducks from a hatchery in Ohio To balance out all the drakes They arrived last Wednesday all perky, hale and hearty Tally - 13 females, 4 males The Texas place screwed up the order and a bunch died I ended up with two Tally - 13 females, 4 males, 2 ??? Wednesday I will receive the replacement ducks and my order… Long way to say, soon my yard will look like this video… Duck math.
“rolling ball” pen drawings of ducks by the Seekonk River I did back in July. The top ones are of a momma duck resting with ducklings nestled under her feathers, before they all woke up and started exploring. The others are of an adult duck with a strangely twisted foot who was hanging out nearby, grooming and looking for snacks.
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