On Sunday, we had ducklings hatch.
On Monday, the mother duck left the nest long enough for me to photograph and count the babies.
However, after 3 minutes moving ducklings and counting heads, I was no closer to an exact number.
We have twelve. Or thirteen. I can’t quite tell, because of all the sitting on each other, hiding under their siblings and wiggling to the bottom of the pile they were doing. I can tell you they are very cute and very soft.
I did only find 2 rotten eggs though and we started with 15 (16, but she broke one during week 3), so thirteen is a possibility.
12 (or 13) ducklings out of 15 eggs is a brilliant success rate. I am thrilled.
Update: We have thirteen. My god it’s a lot of ducklings.
More gratuitous photos, because surely there is no such thing as too many duckling photos?
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39 responses to “Ducklings!”
Aww cuties.
No such thing as too many duckling photos!! 🙂
OMG they are so adorable. I have to stop everything and go get Heidi right now. She loves ducks.
Heidi says
“Oh der cute, oh so cute. Can I have one? I wish I had a pet like ducklings or giraffes. Oh der so quenee*”
*quenee – cross between cute (que) and tiny (nee) – Heidi’s go to word when she see’s little things that are very cute.
These pics make me 100 percent happy that I post various photos of our guinea fowl babies….hey wanna do a poultry swap???
That is too cute!
OMG the cuteness! My boys are gushing. I’m squealing. I realise that I’m a grown woman, but did I mention the cuteness?
I don’t suppose you live in Brisbane?
aww
there the cutest..
Marita – Heidi just made my morning 🙂
Farmers Wifey – If you were in Tassie, definitely, but I think the logistics of swapping animals across the Strait might make it hard hehe.
Melissa – nope, sorry, I’m in Tassie. Cold old Tassie.
Awww, so sweet and fluffy!
I won’t share with Hubby cos he wants ducks BADLY and I fear these photos will only feed his addiction lol.
Jayne they’d definitely feed my addiction if I didn’t have ducks. Best to keep him away. Hehehe.
A merchandising opportunity in second to last photo – cutastic !
I know, I’m seriously thinking of taking a bunch more photos and getting 1 printed for Amy’s wall. Everyone needs ducklings on their wall, right?
Oh my goodness, they are seriously cute! I am so jealous that you got to touch them and count them. Probably I good thing it wasn’t me though, I wouldn’t have been able to put them back down. Adorable!
oh my goodness, those ducklings are just toooooo gorgeous!
Now this is not a word I use often but, my goodness, they really are so CUTE! And the printing idea is brilliant, I’m sure you could sell some too.
Too cute for words!
I’ve just seen that Tassie is having the coldest day for decades. Hope the fluffy yellow ones are snuggled up warmly under mum.
Just think how good they’ll taste!
I have the biggest smile on my face from looking at these pictures. They’re just too cute for words. I agree with the others, those photos are very sellable. Umm, that would be saleable.
oh my!!!! Look at all that yellow fluffy gorgeousness!!!!!!!!
Tamsyn – it was really hard not to handle them too much in the first few days, I really didn’t want them imprinting to me!
Sarah – I should have put a warning up, yes?
Sharon – I don’t use cute much either, but I nearly squealed it out loud when I got my first proper look at them. They are SO cute.
Jane – I just had to go and bring inside wood, it is so cold my hands were numb in a minute or so. SO cold. It’s snowing outside at the moment. The ducklings are hiding inside the chook shed underneath their mother, so I think they’re okay.
River – now there is an idea…. if it warms up enough to take more photos…
Kate – I know! SO FLUFFY!
They are so cute! My daughter now wants one.
Sam – would you believe, my daughter won’t go see them? Our rooster attacked her and she won’t leave the small yard anymore. Sigh.
OMG, they are so adorable! Lovely Carer is squee’ing over duckling photos now too! BG Xx
oh! so! cuuute!! 😀
Oh how gorgeous are they.. very tempting to get a lil duckling for our pnd in the backyard!!!
Have fun with the ducklings.. so fluffy looking!!
I love the photos especially! 😀
They look so addictive to the eye, how could one not resist? Your children must be in Awe. Just needed something like this to make my day! Thanks for sharing
A) No, there is no such thing as too many duckling pics.
B) I SO want one. 🙂
Brrrrrrr keep warm little duckies : )
My goodness they are adorable!!
Awwww, i want one now.They look so cute and adorable!
They’re cuties! That’s a lot of little ones for mama duck to take care of!! 🙂
Awww, ducklings! Today is a duckling kind of day! Oh the cuteness!
OMG! They are soooo cute! I cannot imagine how much fun you are going to have. They look so soft and what a pretty shade of yellow!! Happy Spring to you.
More gratuitous duckling shots, please! There is never enough of adorable baby animals. And these photographs are gorgeous.
Want!
They’re beautiful.
Please forgive this city girls ignorance but why are they so different from their mom? They are so cute and yellow and she is, um, not so cute or even yellow.
Jean- That’s okay! All white poultry are born yellow and fluffy. They’ll get their feathers in a few months (or weeks, I forget how fast muscovy ducks develop) and then when they’re about 10 months old, they’ll start to get the red leather on their face.
These are gorgeous 🙂
Nice!!