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Sorry – I forgot to say on the 27th September…
We put Tyranasarous Rex and Cat Duck out for their first whole day outside with the other six adult ducks (which were older by about a week) and we got home to find them deaded.
We figured that the three oldest ducklings had integrated with the six [...]

The ducks have laid their first egg today!

Tyrannosaurus Rex and Cat Duck were the last two to hatch, I have no doubts they will be the favourites from this batch of ducks because everyone likes the smallest baby pets the most. They have been kept company by a Pilchard (Bob the Builder) soft toy who lives in their cage with them, hopefully [...]

Paula, somehow left wanting by already having raised six ducks, has, curtasy of ebay, invested in seven eggs and an incubator…
We left them incubating at paula’s parents house and Paula’s mother carefully turned them several times a day while we were away in Hungary. The day we got back Paula wished to candle the eggs and [...]

Duck Update

They’ve finally gone to the top of the garden and away from the house, we can finally have the windows open on hot days without the smell of ducks filling the kitchen. The other good thing about this is that the ducks are now on slabs and not wallowing in mud. The white ducks are [...]

Good news – We think at least one of them is a female duck! We’ve found a black feather on the wing of one of the karkhi campbells, this usually means they are female.
On the other hand we think the two white ducks are male ducks because we think we can see curly tail feathers [...]

I wish we could figure out what sex the ducks are going to be – we dare not ‘vent’ the ducks for fear of damaging their reproductive organs so we are waiting for the curly feather on the ducks tail. If it’s a curl they will be boy ducks and if they don’t have the [...]