I have baby ducks!!!

• I have baby ducks!!! magilacudy Posted : 5/1/2006 3:55:42 PM After my sons communion yesterday we came home to see 3 ducks started to hatch. Thie morning 3 more started. Here's  a pic. I will post again when they are all fluffy.  LIKE 30 REPLIES 2364 VIEWS LAST POST MAGILACUDY Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• bluelighting Posted : 5/1/2006 4:16:40 PM Awww! They are so cute and I can't wait until you post another picture when they are all fluffy. We still have our fingers and paws crossed that all goes well with these guys. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• marlania Posted : 5/1/2006 6:37:42 PM [sm=clapping%20hands%20smiley.gif]Yay!! More!! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• yanke Posted : 5/1/2006 9:11:22 PM Congrats! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• random Posted : 5/1/2006 9:17:57 PM Awwww.  Ducky breath.  [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• loveukaykay Posted : 5/1/2006 9:35:34 PM Eww, theyre kinda yukkky looking lol.  I know they will turn into adorable little things though!  I loooove baby duckies!   Congradulations!  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• calliecritturs Posted : 5/1/2006 10:44:36 PM At various times my oak tree has had several families of wood ducks in it.  I never knew that wood ducks nest in TREES!!  They have their babies and then when the ducklings are just a few days old, Mom marches them out on a branch (like 25 feet up) and PUSHES them off the branch to the ground!!   After about half of them have 'jumped' she will fly down and the rest will follow.  Then she'll gather them all up and make for the nearest lake (I'm in Florida -- there are zillions of lakes).   But one morning several years ago, I was getting ready to back my car out and <<>> this tiny duckling falls out of my tree!!  My protective instincts kick in and I'm wondering how I'm gonna deal with THIS!! and <<>><<>> two more fall down!!   Suddenly before I can even figure what's going on <<>><<>><<>> it's RAINING DUCKS!!!   12 of them all told when Momma gathered them up and waddled across my lawn.    I've actually 'seen' it happen like three times and without fail I get THE biggest kick out of it.  Nature is just awesome. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• loveukaykay Posted : 5/1/2006 11:48:38 PM Nature is very awsome, I agree!  Wonder why she pushes them out of a tree like that...?  To weed out weaklings...? 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• bluelighting Posted : 5/1/2006 11:57:28 PM I would so freak out too my first time seeing baby duckling falling from the tree. It seems weird for them to push the babies out of the nest even if they are a few days old. I'm surprise that they live. Now that is a hard way to get down. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• loveukaykay Posted : 5/2/2006 2:03:27 AM LOL I feel stupid... they are just getting down?  For some reason I thought she ment the mom took them UP only to push them off... duh amy... lol... 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• pumaward Posted : 5/2/2006 6:19:27 AM She probably pushes them out of the tree because they won't jump otherwise. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• marty_ga Posted : 5/2/2006 6:23:15 AM That is a neat picture!  How do you feed ducklings? 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• calliecritturs Posted : 5/2/2006 7:24:16 AM Oops, I guess I thot the rest of the world was smarter than *I* was the first time -- yeah, she pushes them off the limb to get them TO the ground to take to her 'other' nest that is on the ground near a lake.  While they are so tiny, they don't want Mom to be a "sitting duck" for predators (like gators down here) -- but once they can move on their own they're safer on the ground (in the tree they'd be too easy prey for Owls.   I spent weeks worrying, the first time, on how the heck she was gonna get them all back UP there! LOL then I found out they have two nests and felt better! *grin*   Feed baby ducklings?  Hmmm -- maybe jam and peanut butter?  After all they are already Quackers!   OH CALLIE--- STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and the lady asked 'how' not 'what' -- you were just dying to tell a really BAD BAD joke!) 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sharismom Posted : 5/2/2006 7:27:35 AM Suddenly before I can even figure what's going on <<>><<>><<>> it's RAINING DUCKS!!! Callie, I imagine that would have scared the crap out of anybody!  Oh, the visual image I got reading your post!   Awwww.  Ducky breath.   [sm=lol.gif]   Very cool, Angel.  Must see fluffy ducklings..... 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• tashakota Posted : 5/2/2006 7:29:51 AM Wood ducks are so colorful too!  Angel, good luck with all the babies!! We had a minor traffic jam this morning with a pair of Canada geese and 3 goslings!  lol.. they were just wandering in the entrance way.  Oh and for any of you out there that have these kinds of geese around, at this time of year, they can't fly.  They are molting their flight  feathers and can't fly till they grow back in. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login