We spent Saturday morning running errands around town.
Somehow, we managed to come home with 5 ducklings and 6 chicks!!
The kids could not be more excited about this new adventure...
Notice the residual white duck feathers all over the ground from when we were duck sitting...
Miles and Ella are pretty good with the chicks.
Emmett, on the other hand, is perhaps the biggest threat to their life on this little farm.
I wanted to photograph him with a chick as well, but he just can't hold one without potentially squishing it's guts out or slamming it back down to the ground. He's like a real life version of Bam-Bam.
This is him grabbing Miles' face to try and convince him to "yet gooooo...put it right 'dere".
We have
5 ducklings: Boomer, Sooner, Toothless, KD & Betty
and
6 chicks: Olaf & Elsa (light yellow), Brownie & Spike (brown), Jake & Elwood (black)
I'm so scientific in how I identify them. I know not whether they are male or female. And I sure don't know what breed they are.
When we were duck sitting, the grown ducks really enjoyed eating tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden. Emmett and Ella wanted the ducklings to eat some so bad. They filled the cart with a variety of veggies and came to the porch...
They weren't too disappointed when I told them the babies don't eat that stuff yet.
They just did it themselves.
I've ordered 10 different books through the inter-library loan system that should be here this week. Any tips on raising ducklings and chicks for this rookie?
