[storm35]

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=643062690  you will see pics of the babies.

[northfifeduckling]

Don't do facebook, can you pull them up a different way for us stone agers, please??

[storm35]

Don't do facebook, can you pull them up a different way for us stone agers, please??

Ermm ok will try something else.

[storm35]

[sheardale]

ahhh  they are lovely.  congratulations
Helen

[Sandy]

Arh cute....I wouldn't mind hatching some eggs one day!!

[northfifeduckling]

Thanks for that and congratulations!
 I now want some more... As I said earlier, nothing beats baby ducklings 

[storm35]

They are cute, duck has doubled in size, since we go thim Fri night, he had a wee bath today for a paddle but never really bothered with it, so i brought him out and dried him, he chases flies, soo funny lol but he tends to knock the little chick over a lot, need to watch that, he is soo clumsy, but  funny, they are gorgeous all of them, My 5 yr old called the duck Daffy duck lol, chicks little one is Kizzy and other one is Lola 10yr old named them.

[Sandy]

I bet you will soon find them a bit messy, I had a pair of ducks from someone on here that hatched them themselves and they are a very nice pair!!

[doganjo]

I've got six eggs in an incubator now - looks like five have life in them so crossing fingers.  Wouldn't hatch chickens in case i got cockerels.  Drakes are easier to find homes for than noisy aggressive cockerels!

[storm35]

We have no idea what sex duck is or chicks, i clean the cage out every 2 days as it dos get a bit smelly, so no idea how it will be outside in coup in winter and summer lol.

[northfifeduckling]

that was not the case for me, Annie! It took me a great deal of effort to rehome one of our drakes - I had to find girls for him and drive him 2 hours north! The other one ended up in the pot, sadly...The cockerel found a home after 4 weeks locally. Nicky (dizzy1pig) said that apparently long pointed eggs are more likely to be boys than rounder ones. Even if it's an old wives tale it's worth trying - what other option is there??

[storm35]

Looks like if mines is a drake i will end up keeping him, if i cant rehome him, could not put him in pot, i will have to get female if i want duck eggs, and then it means baby ducks, no idea what to do, dont want loads of ducks

[northfifeduckling]

you can always eat and sell all the eggs . Having him put down was the hardest thing I ever watched...I don't think I'll ever be able to grow birds for meat,  although he was tasty and fed the family for 2 days:'(

[jameslindsay]

Looks like if mines is a drake i will end up keeping him, if i cant rehome him, could not put him in pot, i will have to get female if i want duck eggs, and then it means baby ducks, no idea what to do, dont want loads of ducks

You would only get babies if you let her sit on the eggs. Also, very often ducks are not great at sitting on their eggs full term anyway.