RELEASE THE QUACKEN!
When the pandemic began I had ZERO ducks
A neighbor gave me an egg to incubate and I hatched out one duckling for her
Super cute, tiny beak, tiny webbed feet. Adorable
The neighbor gave me that duckling as a gift
Tally 1 duckling
I said, What can I do with one duck, when I have a yard full of chickens?
Ducks (penises) and chickens (no penises) donât mix well
Ducks can kill chicken hens by mating them to death, or drowning them
So, my neighborâs solution - she gave me a second duckling
Tally 2 ducklings
Also Adorable. Super cute, tiny beak, tiny webbed feet.
Then she gave me the parent ducks since the male bit her
The males is a gorgeous limping Pekin male, the female is a TINY mallard
Tally - 1 female, 1 male, 2 ???
The two ducklings turned out to both be males/drakes
Tally - 1 female, 3 males
I jokingly said to a friend, man if I wanted ducks I would have gotten Cayugas
Cayuagas are black and iridescent green - very pretty
So for my birthday, that friend gave me a Cayuga ducklings her sister had
Tally - 1 female, 3 males, 1 ???
So, after wine I ordered crested ducklings from texas which were on sale
They arrived looking ratty, punch drunk
I ended up selling all of them that didnât die
Tally, unchanged
I ordered more for myself and it took a month
In the interim I ordered a dozen sexed female ducks from a hatchery in Ohio
To balance out all the drakes
They arrived last Wednesday all perky, hale and hearty
Tally - 13 females, 4 males
The Texas place screwed up the order and a bunch died I ended up with two
Tally - 13 females, 4 males, 2 ???
Wednesday I will receive the replacement ducks and my order...
Long way to say, soon my yard will look like this video...
Duck math.