Quackers

I planned on another Quilt Quack post but decided each subject needed its own post.

It's my blog and I can do that!

:)

Apparently there was enough shade from this tree to have nap time.

Sometimes you just need a little duck therapy.

These guys can be quite entertaining.

Especially when peas are involved.

Nothing like being photobombed by a chicken.

Two of our guys are going to a new home today.

The big white one in the back and the one below him with the white spot on his head.

Too many drakes to hens causes problems.

This is my favorite duck.

Runners are skittish by nature but this one seems to have a friendly side.

Her name is Bender.

 She's always the first one to come for peas and she always eats them from my hands.

She's the most gentle one of them all.

Some of the others can be aggressive when eating peas from my hand.

(Think feeding frenzy.)

A couple of them even pinch.

We named her Bender before we knew she was a hen.

(Bender is a character voiced by Robin Williams from the movie Robots.)

When she was a duckling something happened to cause her tail to bend to one side.

That's why we call her Bender.

For the longest time we wondered if she would be able to lay eggs.

She turned out to be one of our best layers.

So now you know all about Bender.

She's a sweet duck but don't let her fool you.

She can be quite noisy too!

Pepper catching a pea...or at least trying to.

We have this one chicken...

She does this every afternoon.

We find it funny that the other chickens haven't figured out how to get out to the field yet.

This field was planted the other day.

I hope she doesn't scratch the seedlings when they come up!

******UPDATE******

We got a new hen!

Long story short: We gave a lady a couple of duck eggs to hatch.

She ended up with one male and one female.

This is the same lady who was willing to take our spare drakes.

She said she didn't need the hen and gave her to us!

It was a win-win for both of us.

This new hen replaces the hen we lost a few weeks ago.

This hen is what I would call a mutt duck.

She's half Runner and half Khaki Campbell.

She's beautiful and friendly too!

She seems to have the long legs of a Runner but the body of a KC.

We've seen her occasionally stand like a Runner too.

It will be interesting to see how she finishes feathering out.

We plan on keeping her inside for maybe a week.

She's about 2 1/2 weeks younger than our ducks that we hatched.

She needs to do a little growing before we let her run with the big ducks.

I hope to get better pictures soon.

You know animals, they don't cooperate very well for pictures.