I went through raising some of the easier-to-identify colors of runners last year. But this year's brood has gotten my poor duck-mom brain all confuzzled!
I got pencilled, emory pencilled, white and grey this year. All of the ducklings are only six weeks old, but all are getting...
I just got a new brood of runners yesterday, hatched on 4/17. One of the pencilled runners seems really run down. It's not being bullied, but hasn't been eating or drinking as much as the others, and has been sleeping a lot. And while the others have grown noticeably in just a day, that one...
I need to know, are my ducks just weird?
One of my runners went into lay for the first time this last weekend. She's doled out 5 eggs in the last 6 days, which I'm thrilled with, but...
Okay, so, location is midwest Michigan area, and a lot of you are probably aware of the utterly nutso...
Well, it's been many, many weeks since introducing all five of my Runner babies here. They've all done rather well at growing into young adulthood, with our two oldest at nineteen weeks, and the three youngest at sweet sixteen.
But, as my luck goes. Both of the oldest turned out to be...
Hi everyone! My name is Shawnee. I've been perusing the threads here for all of your wonderful insights for about a couple of months now, and I figured it's probably about time I popped on and make friendly with you good people. And to introduce you to the ducklings you've been helping me to...