Ducks

Join me in enjoying the existence of ducks.

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Day 104 of ducks!

The council is deciding your fate.

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Day 101, 102, and 103 of ducks!!

Tried to get Kazoo’s opinion. Pippin and the others are doing well, don’t worry. Tomorrow will be a post on how opinionated they are.

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Day 98, 99…and…100! Of ducks!!!!

Pippin

Pepperoni

Tomato Sauce

Mary

Cheese

Bowling Pin

And Kazoo

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Day 97 of ducks!!

Such elegant creatures. What grace and poise.

Oh and also what attitude and mess.

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Day 93-96 of ducks!

W a t e r

Also MnM the little duck! He’s got crooked bill but his leg is doing so much better!

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Day 91 and 92 of ducks!!

They had very strong opinions about the fact that I exist.

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Day 89 and 90 of ducks!

My sibling has a birthday tomorrow! Wanna know the cake this cretin made?

A duck cake. Isn’t it cute???

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Woah!

It’s day 79-88 of ducks!!

SO sorry I haven’t been posting lately, I’ve been eternally stuck with doing other stuff 😭😭😭

But the ducks are almost three months old!

Pippin is doing SO much better, and can eat, drink, and even swim on her own!

We’re not sure if her other eye will be functional but at least she can live a mostly normal little duckie life!

This is all of our ducks together!

They’re all drinking the mud. Never mind the cool, fresh, clear water RIGHT NEXT TO THEM.

They desire M U D

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Because why drink water when you can have mud.

(Go drink water, you aren’t a duck)

And-Here’s the tiny addition that I found in the chicken coop!

Buried in my elbow for no reason.

His beak is deformed as he has Crooked Beak, but the cast for his leg I gave him has worked, and he can walk normally now! (Mostly)

Hopefully I’ll be able to post more often, but if I stopped posting it’s not because the ducks don’t exist anymore.

Thank you for your patience and support of the ducks!

-Behold The Ducks🦆

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Day 78 of ducks!

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Day 77 of ducks!

Nom nom nom nom nom

Sorry my hair got in the way 😭the one annoying strand wouldn’t stay put.

Ducks eat quickly because in the wild they gotta act fast to not become food.

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Day 76 of ducks!!

I’ve been meaning to record them in the water for a while.

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Day 75 of ducks!

Duck in the laundry room. I set Mary on the floor and went back outside to get Pippin and Mary was. Just. There. On the steps. She had climbed the stairs. And was quacking loudly in protest of not knowing where Pippin was.

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Day 73 and74 of ducks.

As I said, I’m recovering and am able to do less but ducks!

Also I’m really happy, I got Pippin to finally eat some food.

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Day 71 and 72 of ducks. I had oral surgery yesterday so I was unable to post. But here is Pippin, drinking water.

And the Khaki, Mary. With the teen ducks.

Also gave a splint to the baby duck we found , since its leg isn’t working right.

I’ve named it Mystery Miracle (MnM). Because it’s a Mystery where it came from and a Miracle it’s survived so far.

I hope Pippin and MnM survive. ❤️

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Day 70 of ducks.

Pippin is still holding up, though I don’t know for certain what will happen.

She’s still recovering.

There’s a reason I put my finger in the photo, and that’s so you don’t have to see the condition her eye is in. However, her injuries are still mildly visible so YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Her head remains tilted like so, as that is where the injury is. The only thing that super worries me is her ability to breathe.

I hope she makes it.

Oh, and…

As an added bonus surprise, I found THIS in the chicken coop.

I guess the remaining “non viable egg” was viable after all???

We put four eggs under the chicken. The two hatched and we’ve been looking after them. The third almost made it but passed in the hatch process. :(

Everyone apparently thought the last egg was not going to hatch since it had been well over a week beyond the estimated hatching time.

I THOUGHT they had taken the egg OUT from under the broody chicken (because why would you leave it there if it’s no longer viable?) But I guess they didn’t? I quite literally said “what the DUCK!?”

Now, is that exactly what happened?

No idea.

Literally NOBODY in my house has any idea where this thing came from. I just found it in the coop while I was feeding the chickens.

Chicken pecked at the other side of its head though, so it’s injured too. Hoping it and Pippin survive. ❤️🦆❤️

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Day 68 and 69 of ducks.

I forgot to post but for good reason…

They were attacked last night by a raccoon that managed to get under the box we put on the crate (crate did not have a door) and I woke up to Pippin’s frantic quacks and yelled at the raccoon.

I held her neck up for two or more hours making sure she could breathe. She finally seems stable now, I’ll be checking on her again soon.

The Khaki, Mary, is ok. Pippin was likely grabbed due to her size.

That raccoon was huge and I suspect it is the one that had been coming at our chickens in the past.

Mary is very protective of her and kept nibbling us every time we reached for Pippin. I took Pippin out of the box to treat her with hydrogen peroxide and Mary flapped out of the box to come be with her.

However, we have this divide between them because as long as Pippin’s head wound is still red, the Khaki’s instinct will lead her to peck at Pippin’s head, which we don’t want.

She’s stable now, resting and breathing is fine.

I did the best I could.

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Day 61-67 (yes, it’s actually that number) of ducks!!

I had more videos but tumblr says I can only upload one. Would yall be interested in seeing the others videos?