Two days after Easter we went to a local park with a big lake. There are always lots of ducks there, as well as Canadian geese and fish. This day was really cool and windy. The ducks were all bobbing in the water. My two year old ran over to some big tree roots, reached down and picked up a baby duck and said, "Look, here my baby duck!"
We looked all over the lake for more baby ducks. We couldn't find any! We tried to put the duck back but it followed us peeping. Clearly we had to take it home because it would freeze to death alone. We have a pair of pekin ducks that we raised from ducklings, so we already know how to care for them. The duckling looked like it had just hatched, not a single adult feather sprout except for a tiny bit of white at the tail, and really tiny.
Here it is where we found it:
Here are some more pictures of it from the past few weeks:
This was just the other day, about two weeks later. It still hasn't feathered out much, but it is growing larger.
As you can see (s)he's the most spoiled duck ever. Hand fed, snuggled, and taken for long walks by two excited little girls.
I'm curious what she will look like as she grows up. Is she a pekin muscovy cross? Just a muscovy? She looks just like my pekins as ducklings except with black spots and adorable black striped toes.
Our adult male pekin attacks the duckling any time he sees her.
I'm not sure why. When the duckling grows bigger will they eventually be able to get along? If not I don't know what I'll do! My husband thinks we should just turn the duckling loose once it's fully feathered, or re-home it, but we are all attached to it now. (See the pictures, haha.) I'm sure it's way too tame to be let go in the wild now anyway, it's not afraid of our cats or anything.
It does the cutest whistle noise to call for me when I leave it alone to go to bed at night! It says, "peep peep peep WHISTLE!" I've never heard a duck whistle before. We're calling it Duck Face until it we can figure out if it's male or female.
We looked all over the lake for more baby ducks. We couldn't find any! We tried to put the duck back but it followed us peeping. Clearly we had to take it home because it would freeze to death alone. We have a pair of pekin ducks that we raised from ducklings, so we already know how to care for them. The duckling looked like it had just hatched, not a single adult feather sprout except for a tiny bit of white at the tail, and really tiny.
Here it is where we found it:
Here are some more pictures of it from the past few weeks:
This was just the other day, about two weeks later. It still hasn't feathered out much, but it is growing larger.
As you can see (s)he's the most spoiled duck ever. Hand fed, snuggled, and taken for long walks by two excited little girls.
I'm curious what she will look like as she grows up. Is she a pekin muscovy cross? Just a muscovy? She looks just like my pekins as ducklings except with black spots and adorable black striped toes.
Our adult male pekin attacks the duckling any time he sees her.
I'm not sure why. When the duckling grows bigger will they eventually be able to get along? If not I don't know what I'll do! My husband thinks we should just turn the duckling loose once it's fully feathered, or re-home it, but we are all attached to it now. (See the pictures, haha.) I'm sure it's way too tame to be let go in the wild now anyway, it's not afraid of our cats or anything. It does the cutest whistle noise to call for me when I leave it alone to go to bed at night! It says, "peep peep peep WHISTLE!" I've never heard a duck whistle before. We're calling it Duck Face until it we can figure out if it's male or female.
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