The ducklings are four weeks old now and have begun to display noticeable feathers on their wings. Some of their tails are a little more pronounced. I’m wondering if those are the males—they are also the darker ducklings, for the most par ...
We’ve got the routine down for now. The ducklings eat three times a day, all they can eat in 15 minutes each meal, which for the ten of them is a little over two cups of their feed. After they eat, they often go over to the pool to drink ...
I have a lot of updating to do! The ducklings are getting bigger and we're having lots of fun watching them grow and eat and swim. We've been taking photos and videos, so I'll be posting some of those and post-dating some blog posts to fi ...
The duck house & small temporary yard are working out nicely. The ducks have been fine outside, and know they can go back in the house when they want to, so we’ve decided to leave them outside pretty much all day now, as long as we are home ...
The ducklings are three weeks old now. They’re getting so big! We’re so glad we didn’t get them until June. I cannot imagine having ten ducklings this size in our basement. We had planned to get a larger box of some kind, or b ...
Whitey is doing much better, and I’m not so concerned. He/she is about as active as the others, gets in the pool and enjoys it, and seems just fine. His/her color is getting lighter, more of a creamy yellow. I kind of hope Whitey tu ...
The little ones are enjoying their new routine, coming out in the morning to meet the day. Here’s a video of them coming out of their house.
I’m a little concerned about Whitey, the White Appleyard. He (she?) seems a little more lethargic than the others, and sits a lot, even while eating and drinking. He’s got an odd reddish spot alongside his neck that particularly shows up ...
Duck House - Not yet finished, but functional.The ducks moved out to their own house today, at two weeks old! This morning one of them managed to escape the brooder box in the basement, so we decided to hurry up and get their own house complete ...
We’re building “Duck Inn”, the duck house. The plan is detailed here in Tim’s videos: