Animals
- Meanwhile, At The Duck Pond...
Part of my every day chores is a stop at the duck pond to feed the ducks and fish. We have kept a stable population for several months now...5 tame ducks and 4 wild mallards that now call our pond home.At one point we were up to 36 ducks,but the local...
- The Surprise
A perfect, blue skied, sunny weekend was made even better by a visit from my favorite buddy. Tyler spent the day with Grammie and Muppy on Sunday.Before his arrival I told him that I had a surprise for him...actually 16 little surprises. Each visit...
- Goodbye Methuselah
Yesterday morning when I stopped by the pond to feed the ducks,I did my usual head count.Twelve ducks were paddling around in their little circular pool of water...kept from freezing by an aerator. For seven or eight years, that head count has included...
- A Little Surprise
We are doing a little waddle dance here at the farm. The ducks are excited and so are we!!! Last night while changing the water in the duck hut,my daughter Jenn found something wonderful! Three grey duck eggs!Our first. Raising this...
- New Ducks On Their Way!!
Our poor flock of Campbell ducks has slowly dwindled down to just one lone duck. We have named her Methusela because she has lived the longest. I worry that she is lonely. We feed her daily and she spends her days happily swimming on the pond...often...
Animals
Lessons Learned
Something is not quite "Wright" with one of our ducklings.
I've thought of naming this guy Orville.
He looks like he's ready to take off any minute.
In actuality, though, this duckling has a condition known as Angel Wing.
It is a condition that arises when ducks eat a diet too high in protein.
We are thinking that this might be due to the ducks consuming fish food
that is thrown into the pond to feed the fish.
The fish food smells like fish, so I imagine it has a high concentration of fish in it...
thus a higher concentration of protein than the ducks are used to.
The cure for angel wing is to decrease the protein in the duck's diet.
I will start supplementing their diet with cracked corn, a carbohydrate,
and stop feeding the fish.
It seems we never stop learning from our life here on the farm.
Hopefully, our little duck's wings will return to normal very soon!
- Meanwhile, At The Duck Pond...
Part of my every day chores is a stop at the duck pond to feed the ducks and fish. We have kept a stable population for several months now...5 tame ducks and 4 wild mallards that now call our pond home.At one point we were up to 36 ducks,but the local...
- The Surprise
A perfect, blue skied, sunny weekend was made even better by a visit from my favorite buddy. Tyler spent the day with Grammie and Muppy on Sunday.Before his arrival I told him that I had a surprise for him...actually 16 little surprises. Each visit...
- Goodbye Methuselah
Yesterday morning when I stopped by the pond to feed the ducks,I did my usual head count.Twelve ducks were paddling around in their little circular pool of water...kept from freezing by an aerator. For seven or eight years, that head count has included...
- A Little Surprise
We are doing a little waddle dance here at the farm. The ducks are excited and so are we!!! Last night while changing the water in the duck hut,my daughter Jenn found something wonderful! Three grey duck eggs!Our first. Raising this...
- New Ducks On Their Way!!
Our poor flock of Campbell ducks has slowly dwindled down to just one lone duck. We have named her Methusela because she has lived the longest. I worry that she is lonely. We feed her daily and she spends her days happily swimming on the pond...often...