Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Short lived Duck Laying

So our little Uno's duck laying came to an and a couple of weeks ago. She got eaten by a cat. The cat had been "breaking in" the pen for a week prior to the attack, but it had just been eating cat food. Kyle had been mixing it in with the duck feed to fatten them up through the winter. The day we ran out of cat food was when the cat decided to eat the duck.

The same day Kyle found these three "replacements" over in Brigham City. So we now own 4 ducks.



























They are like silly little kids. They imitate everything Mr. does. At first Mr. (Our male duck) Didn't want much to do with them, he would actually run away. He has now warmed up to them and has become protective of them as well. He still maintains his territory of getting in the pond first after it has been filled up. He makes them wait til he is done!

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Duck Eggs!

For those of you who may not know, we have two ducks. You heard right! For the scoop check out Kyle's blog at ourlittlechildren.blogspot.com.
Two weeks ago our duck, Uno, started laying eggs. She has laid 10 eggs! It has been like an Easter Egg hunt everyday since.











Shown above is the first egg she laid, huge in comparison to chicken eggs.

Or so we thought....

The gigantic egg shown below was a monster found early this week (after she took the cold weekend off) You can see how large it is in comparison to a duck egg and a chicken egg! Wow!