Last year George let a broody hen sit on some of his duck eggs and they all hatched. The resultant offspring are Appleyard/Rowan crosses. This year he gave some eggs to Rob & Nina who put them under one of their hens and 8 hatched. Unfortunately a fox took most of their hens and 6 [...]
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More Ducklings!
Posted in DogsnDucks on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Ducks
Posted in DogsnDucks on April 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I eventually got around to advertising Bean (The black Indian Runner drake) in the paper. I put him in at £15 so that he wouldn’t go to someone who wanted a cheap dinner. To cut a long story short the lady who bought him persuaded me to part with a duck as well. So for [...]
Eggs
Posted in DogsnDucks on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Beans (collective term for the Black Indian Runners) have trashed their run over winter so they are in a temporary enclosure whilst the mud hopefully becomes grass again. They started laying again in February and Dipti of the Kumars (the original 3 ducks) started on the 29th of February.
String has now stopped laying again. [...]
One-eyed muddy dog
Posted in DogsnDucks on September 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Beans
Posted in DogsnDucks on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Beans (collective term for what used to be the ducklings) are here to stay. Holme Lacy College didn’t need any more drakes so we now have 2 separate duck colonies of 1 drake + 2 ducks each.
The Kumars: Sanjeev, Dipti & Mrs Campbell
The Beans: Bean, String & Sargeant
Mrs Campbell isn’t laying much at all [...]
Curly Tail Feather
Posted in DogsnDucks on June 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Last Monday 4th of June one of the ducklings sprouted the dreaded curly tail feather. This means that Bean (with the white chest marking) is a drake and so can never share a pen with Sanjeev. We’ve asked Hayley our work experience student to see if Holme Lacy College would like him as their Indian [...]
Spikelops
Posted in DogsnDucks on May 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Spike is perfectly happy and his operation has healed perfectly.
Ducklings are now ducks
Posted in DogsnDucks on May 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The babies are as big as the grown-ups now.
Sanjeev keeps eyeing up the opposition.
Feathers
Posted in DogsnDucks on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The ducklings are starting to get lovely glossy feathers now.
Mike has dug in their new pond (sandpit from Argos). After 3 days they have ignored it totally. He has taken it personally and is threatening to withdraw their privileges.
Spike update
Posted in DogsnDucks on April 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I picked Spike up yesterday. He looks as though he has gone 3 rounds with Mike Tyson but is a lot happier than when the eye was still there and injured.
His main problem this morning is that Boogie wants the bed Spike is in, which is identical to his! He will be on cattery duty [...]
