At my last post, we had 4. Well, it's up to 9 now. I think we had 6 Friday morning when we left for MOPS around 9:00. We had 8 total duckies when we got home in the afternoon.
This morning we saw a new little one in the box with the mamma duck. Freshly hatched and wet.
Our ducks have had some special visitors the past couple of days. Some of our friends and neighbors have stopped in to see them. Not sure if the big ducks appreciate all of the attention or not. ;-)
I do believe that there pen is a bit more smelly now than before, though :-(
I changed the water earlier today cause it was nastier than ever! Yikes!! Of course, as soon as you give the ducks a full container of fresh, clean, clear water, they splash around in it and you are left with HALF a container of not-so-fresh, not-so-clean, certainly-not-clear water.
The babies are able to drink from the shallow rubbermaid lid. They have also been swimming in it a little bit. Have I mentioned that they are SO cute?
We've got another sqeaking egg, so I anticipate that we will have another duckling in the basement tomorrow. With our luck, it will probably hatch while we are at church. We'd like to be able to watch a full hatching sometime. Anyway to make a duck hatch faster??
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
A new baby
We've got a couple of new babies today!
We watched that squeaking egg for a long time last night. Then we watched the beginning of a hatch for a long time this morning. Once everyone left the house for a little while this afternoon, the duck decides to come out of the shell! How frustrating. I came back to the house around 2:00 and there he/she was. Still wet from the hatch. Very cute and pitiful. I'm leaving it in the incubator till the rest of the family gets home. I'm hoping he/she will have time to dry off and fluff a little bit. If anyone knows anything about ducks, please give us some tips. We are making it up as we go. Hey! That's how I do most everything!!
We watched that squeaking egg for a long time last night. Then we watched the beginning of a hatch for a long time this morning. Once everyone left the house for a little while this afternoon, the duck decides to come out of the shell! How frustrating. I came back to the house around 2:00 and there he/she was. Still wet from the hatch. Very cute and pitiful. I'm leaving it in the incubator till the rest of the family gets home. I'm hoping he/she will have time to dry off and fluff a little bit. If anyone knows anything about ducks, please give us some tips. We are making it up as we go. Hey! That's how I do most everything!!
We counted ducklings outside earlier today and there are now 4. They are extra cute. One of them was swimming in the rubbermaid lid of water we set out. The little guy is very independent it seems. The drake, Daffy, is really a pest these days. He was trying to chase the cute little duckie around. That's where the momma duck steps in and throws a fit. I think we may have to get Daffy out of there. He is really bothering the ladies.
I hear lots of little squeaks even now from my computer chair. I could spend all day watching them. :-) Of course you realize that this is also turning into homeschool science. ;-) We've been "doing school" on the back porch lately and are often distracted by the duckies. So we have a brief interlude of science here and there.
I hear lots of little squeaks even now from my computer chair. I could spend all day watching them. :-) Of course you realize that this is also turning into homeschool science. ;-) We've been "doing school" on the back porch lately and are often distracted by the duckies. So we have a brief interlude of science here and there.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
The squeaking egg
This has to be one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. One of the eggs in our incubator is moving and chirping. There are no cracks in it, so it's not quite hatching, but there is something alive in that one. I've got video clips, but I don't yet know how to upload them to my computer, nor how to use them here. Stay tuned...
Baby Duckies
We have some new arrivals to announce! Day before yesterday, we found two broken eggshells at the edges of the duck cage. We didn't see any baby ducks, so it was quite mysterious and we wondered if perhaps the mama ducks had "disposed" of these eggs since they were no good. We were sure what to make of it.
Yesterday, we discovered two cute little ducklings!! We have Neleh to thank for the duckling spotting. Bekah (her newly adopted spelling) and I were doing school on the porch when Neleh told us. I wasn't quite ready to belive her, but she was right!! They are so cute. I took pictures. Once I learn more about this blogging stuff, perhaps I'll post the pictures.
Well, on May 6, Bill had decided that he had waited long enough for baby ducks and was taking matters into his own hands. He collected 8 duck eggs and brought them inside to the incubator. In response to a suggestion from our neighbor, Has Hall, we marked the shells of the other eggs with the date, 5/6. This would help us to know if any new eggs were laid.
This afternoon, Bill went to the incubator to "turn the eggs." One of the eggs had hatched!! There was a freshly hatched cutie in our basement! He was still wet and everything. We carefully put him on a paper plate and carried him out to the duck pen. Sadly, the mother ducks are not really accepting him. :-( He's so cute though. They are snubbing him quite a bit. You'd think that they'd have taken him in so easily, but no. The other two ducklings are nestled in the back of the box, and our little guy is stuck on the outside. He was trying to nudge his way in between the mamas earlier without much luck.
A ha! I may have discovered my purpose for blogging. A diary of duckies.
Yesterday, we discovered two cute little ducklings!! We have Neleh to thank for the duckling spotting. Bekah (her newly adopted spelling) and I were doing school on the porch when Neleh told us. I wasn't quite ready to belive her, but she was right!! They are so cute. I took pictures. Once I learn more about this blogging stuff, perhaps I'll post the pictures.
Well, on May 6, Bill had decided that he had waited long enough for baby ducks and was taking matters into his own hands. He collected 8 duck eggs and brought them inside to the incubator. In response to a suggestion from our neighbor, Has Hall, we marked the shells of the other eggs with the date, 5/6. This would help us to know if any new eggs were laid.
This afternoon, Bill went to the incubator to "turn the eggs." One of the eggs had hatched!! There was a freshly hatched cutie in our basement! He was still wet and everything. We carefully put him on a paper plate and carried him out to the duck pen. Sadly, the mother ducks are not really accepting him. :-( He's so cute though. They are snubbing him quite a bit. You'd think that they'd have taken him in so easily, but no. The other two ducklings are nestled in the back of the box, and our little guy is stuck on the outside. He was trying to nudge his way in between the mamas earlier without much luck.
A ha! I may have discovered my purpose for blogging. A diary of duckies.
Friday, May 4, 2007
The point of blogging
Well, some people have very interesting blogs with lots of interesting stuff on them. You can actually learn a lot from people's ramblings!! It is very annoying, however, to google a topic for "research" only to get a list of blogs. :-( I have a friend who is running for President, using blogs as a means of campaigning.
My dearest husband has started a blog...at least signed up for one...to post his regular "articles" of interest to folks.
Some people use blogs as a journal.
Some folks use it as a way of communication.
So, what about me? Why the heck am I blogging? I'm not running for office. I'm not sure I want the whole world to see what I am thinking about. I'm not sure I have anything to offer to the world any way.
Perhaps I'm just here cause if I'm not on "myspace" and don't have a "blog" then I am really "out of it." Well, now I have both. So what?
During February, "myspace" was somewhat useful in posting songs for FAWM. Well, February is long gone. I've got more "friends" now, but don't know what to do with them. I actually have two "myspace" locations somehow. I can't get them to merge, I don't know how, so I am friends with myself. *sigh*
Perhaps I'm blogging cause I can. Perhaps I just have a blog and since I only have 3 entries now, it shouldn't really be considered "blogging." I have a blogspot. Not much more than that.
I am sure this message will be an inspiration to many. Inspires one to really ask the question, "why the heck am I blogging?"
Oh, pizza's done.
My dearest husband has started a blog...at least signed up for one...to post his regular "articles" of interest to folks.
Some people use blogs as a journal.
Some folks use it as a way of communication.
So, what about me? Why the heck am I blogging? I'm not running for office. I'm not sure I want the whole world to see what I am thinking about. I'm not sure I have anything to offer to the world any way.
Perhaps I'm just here cause if I'm not on "myspace" and don't have a "blog" then I am really "out of it." Well, now I have both. So what?
During February, "myspace" was somewhat useful in posting songs for FAWM. Well, February is long gone. I've got more "friends" now, but don't know what to do with them. I actually have two "myspace" locations somehow. I can't get them to merge, I don't know how, so I am friends with myself. *sigh*
Perhaps I'm blogging cause I can. Perhaps I just have a blog and since I only have 3 entries now, it shouldn't really be considered "blogging." I have a blogspot. Not much more than that.
I am sure this message will be an inspiration to many. Inspires one to really ask the question, "why the heck am I blogging?"
Oh, pizza's done.
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