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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: northfifeduckling on June 08, 2012, 02:15:04 pm

Title: it took 5 years to achieve!
Post by: northfifeduckling on June 08, 2012, 02:15:04 pm
now all say "Ahhhhh"  ;D ;D ;D
sadly she abandoned the other eggs  :&>
Title: Re: it took 5 years to achieve!
Post by: goosepimple on June 08, 2012, 02:18:46 pm
Ahhh :D , oh and awww for the abandoned eggs.  Well done north.
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Post by: Mammyshaz on June 08, 2012, 02:36:01 pm
Ahhhh  :love: that is cute. Is it the only one? Gonna be spoilt rotten if that's the case.

5 years  :o that's a long time to sit!  ;D
Title: Re: it took 5 years to achieve!
Post by: northfifeduckling on June 08, 2012, 02:49:24 pm
 ;D ;D - no other mum would sit in captivity (a nesting box  ;D ), only this mum was confined due to injury - and went broody  ::) . I mainly meant a natural arrival of a duckling  ;D took 5 years, only happened once when we were absolute beginners  - we've had a few kindly incubated by other TAS members but having one from birth is something else  :D
Yes, shame it's the only one, I was hoping that she gave the other eggs a chance, one was definitely making the right noises yesterday but today they are cold...and silent :&>
Title: Re: it took 5 years to achieve!
Post by: little blue on June 08, 2012, 02:52:57 pm
very cute :love:
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Post by: Brucklay on June 08, 2012, 04:45:03 pm
Oh how sweet, we have a broody duck 'Ludo' that doesn't lay eggs so she finds a clutch and then sits on them - she attacks if you get close!! Aren't ducks mad  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: Bionic on June 08, 2012, 04:46:12 pm
5 years, phew.... but it looks like it was worth waiting for  :thumbsup:
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Post by: jaykay on June 08, 2012, 08:10:44 pm
Very sweet  :love: What is he/she?
Title: Re: it took 5 years to achieve!
Post by: northfifeduckling on June 08, 2012, 08:59:45 pm
A real mongrel  ;D , Dad's quarter Call, quarter  Indian Bantam , half KC, mum is probably half IR , half KC  ;D ;D
and I'll keep calling it a she just to use some magic  ;D :&> :&> all fingers crossed!
Title: Re: it took 5 years to achieve!
Post by: jaykay on June 08, 2012, 09:08:36 pm
Pick her up and get her to talk into your ear. If she sounds like she's got a slightly sore throat, she's a boy. If she's got a clear 'pipe' she's a girl <from my Dad, the duck whisperer  :D>
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Post by: northfifeduckling on June 08, 2012, 09:20:01 pm
her mum will go bananas! but I'll bear it in mind, worth a try when possible  ;D :&>
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Post by: little blue on June 08, 2012, 09:34:43 pm
oooh, then we must have at least one girl!
hurrah!  thanks Jaykay & dad.... :)
Title: Re: it took 5 years to achieve!
Post by: northfifeduckling on June 09, 2012, 11:09:11 am
wee one got out this morning - an enourmous screech I could hear in the kitchen (and I always listen to stories and am half deaf  ;D ) - I thought a hen had been taken! Went out and baby duckling had squeezed through a gap in the bars of the run (fixed now!) so it must have been mum!  My chance to pick it up and listen  - crystal clear peeps only, so there is hope that it's a girl  :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :&>