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I hope it’s OK to use animals for Show & Tell. Click on the graphic to the left to visit other particpants at Kelli’s.
We have some new additions here. Ten, to be exact!
This mother duck has hatched babies three springs in a row. Usually her nest is just somewhere under a bush and the babies are caught and contained a couple days after they are born. This year Momma Duck was nice enough to lay her eggs right in the little duck house and the babies could be contained from birth - or so we thought.
We keep them in a cage because of the foxes, hawks, and snapping turtles around the pond where the ducks live. Being a baby duckling is very dangerous!
When my husband went to check on them the morning after the day they hatched the ducklings were NOT in the cage. They were under the shed, behind the duck pool, in a concrete block, out in the yard, everywhere but in the duck house with Momma Duck.
Since he was there Momma Duck went into her house and stopped calling the stuck ducklings. Those baby ducks have the brain of a, well, a baby duck! Dumb!
He would get them in and they’d fall down, get stuck, or pop out again. Those little quackers were small
enough to go through the holes in the chicken wire! I’m sure it didn’t help his case that our 3 kids were “helping.” In their pajamas, no less.
It was pretty funny when a dark brown duckling was stuck in their duck pool. He kept bobbing up and down like a bath toy that a baby pushes under water.
It only took about 45 minutes to get things right. He even let our kiddos pet one before he sent them [the kids, not the ducks] inside.
Later that day, I rescued 3 again. Now, 2 days later they are too big to make it through the fence and they are a little smarter. They sure couldn’t have been any dumber!
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on May 16th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Cute! We had a (wild) quail family in our yard one year, and the babies kept falling into our concrete blocks (that we used to terrace our veggie garden). Momma quail is calling from the potentilla shrub, but the babies can’t get out (they are the size of a golf ball) . Eventually my daughter and I lifted them out and put them by the shrub, wearing gloves, so I hope they were all ok.
on May 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
What a funny story! I’m glad they got smarter too! We had quail in our backyard once. Momma made her nest under an overturned plastic pot that was up against a fence. Scared hubby half to death when he hit the pot with the weed whacker and out she came after him. We made sure not to disturb the pot after that, and enjoyed all the babies running through our rasberry canes. Now we had a dog, so they no longer visit the back, but occasionally visit the front yard. They are so cute!
on May 16th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
What a hilarious story! Those ducklings are so cute!
Blessings
linda
on May 16th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I would love to have a duck family living nearby - I know your kids love that!
on May 16th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Hahaha…dumb ducks! They are awful cute though.
on May 16th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
What a great story and such cute ducks! It’s going to be fun watching them all grow up!
~Kelli
on May 17th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Loved your duck family pictures! My husband and I recently saw a mother duck with her brood following behind step off the curb and most of the babies fell deep down into a storm drain. It was so upsetting because the mother wouldn’t leave them and she and the babies were very upset. Fire department to the rescue - they came promptly when called and fished the babies out of the drain with a net! The little family continued on it’s way as if nothing had gone astray during their afternoon exercise! …Kathy
on May 17th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Those ducks are sooooo…. cute!
on May 18th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Precious! Absolutely precious!
on May 21st, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Adorable baby duckies! : ]
I love the pictures!