An update on our little flock...We now have four ducks, 3 Welsh Harlequins and 1 Pekin; they are three years old. After several months of getting "dud" eggs pretty consistently, we finally determined one of the Pekins was throwing the duds ...
Fall 2013We still have 5 ducks. Three are the original Welsh Harlequins we got the spring of 2011. The other two are the pekins we got the summer of 2012 (they are the same age as our WH's).In July I began freezing some of the eggs, thinking th ...
OK, so I've pretty well neglected writing on this blog. But, if anyone is listening, I've just posted my garden plan for 2013 on growveg.com. The main garden can be seen here: MAIN GARDENThe three sisters plot is here: CORN-BEANS-SQUASHRight no ...
Sadly, Pinky is no longer with us. She hadn't been acting normal in mid-July and we thought we might lose her then, but then she improved. Some days she moved slowly, but mostly she acted the same as the other ducks. Monday she was ...
These ducks are really cranking them out! Almost every day we find four eggs from these four ducks. One day there were only three, and the next day five, so I suspect I missed one the first day, although I have heard it is possible for a ...
We've been getting three eggs almost every day, sometimes just two or one, but haven't been sure whether all four ducks are laying. This morning there were 4 eggs, so now we know they're all laying. So far, our egg eating has pretty much ...
Monday we had two eggs, and have had two each day since then, and today there were three, so certainly we have three layers, with one more to go. So now it will be...Eggs for breakfast,Egg salad sandwiches or hard-boiled eggs on salads for lunc ...
I found another egg this morning, and it was in the next box. I didn't see it at first, but the next boxes had a lot of the wood shavings pushed out of them. When I shoved the shavings back in, something went bump, and sure enough, there ...
First Egg - 12/15/11 - Ducks at 27.5 weeks old.Way to go, girls! They've done it. One egg was found this morning, right in the middle of the duck house. Wahooo! I don't know who laid it, of course, but my guess is "Orange", th ...
These slacker quackers still have not laid any eggs. They are now 6 months old (27 weeks). We have read different ideas as to when they should commence, and had hoped that we would have eggs by now. In Storey's Guide to Raising Duck ...