Two Stoney Acres: Duckling Update

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Duckling Update

Our Momma Duck was doing a great job with her babies and ended up with 14 of the 18 trailing behind her the last 10 days or so. I suspect a cat or other predator may have gotten the others - but God bless him because I'm sure he took a beating from Momma trying to save her babies!

But, it is time to open our pool. And there isn't room in this here backyard for me and all the ducks. The ducks have been swimming on top of our winter pool cover where the rain and melted snow accumulates. I have not been happy about this at all. Ducks are dirty and I didn't want to have a mess when we uncovered the pool. And I didn't want to fight to keep them out of the pool once it was opened. We didn't have too much trouble with Rodney and Momma last summer because Jacob kept a blue plastic kiddie pool filled for them. But it sure wasn't big enough for 16 ducks!

So, we set out looking for homes for the ducklings. Thankfully, one of Jordana's teachers has sisters who live in the country and were looking for ducks. One of them even has a duck pond and duck house already set up. Jordana's teacher came today after school and took the babies to their new homes. We are so glad they are going somewhere to be pets.

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