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WannaBe In the Country
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My husband and I moved from the suburbs to a small farmette in South Carolina, where we're trying to go back to nature. We have a horse, some goats, and some ducks, and we're trying to plant and sustain native plants.
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Ducks...Cats...Beautiful Day
My husband got some pictures of our new Muscovy duck that show off how beautiful he is.Check out how the reflection in the picture below shows off Corky's red beak. I love the green tint to some of his feathers. He's really added a new element to the...
Invaded by Communists
Well, they're not really Communists but that's a more exciting title than 'Bought Some Muscovy Ducks' today, isn't it?Here's how they came home. We went to the flea market looking for some more mallards, and saw these beautiful huge black-and-white d...
Teeming With Ducks
My last post was about the three new young ducks we bought today. When last we saw them, they were hiding in the brush. A little while later, my husband went out and threw them a handful of grain...and all of a sudden, they're out in the open. They'v...
Duck Crazy
We bought three more ducks today. My husband found out that a flea market about an hour away often has ducks for sale, so we went and bought these little guys from Miss Joan the Chicken Lady, as she calls herself.It's surprising hard to find ducks th...
Video of the Vulture Attack
I managed to get a short video of the vulture attacking the ducks......
A Vulture Attacks the Ducks
My husband called me out onto the deck this morning to see a vulture that had landed on the roof of the boat dock. As we watched, he repeatedly swooped our three ducks.They squawked in terror, and Gilligan, the domestic white duck who's larger than t...
Miss Penny Got Snatched Bald!
We were out by the pond tonight, and realized to our horror that Miss Penny, the female duck, now has a long narrow bald spot on the back of her head. We haven't noticed it earlier, but we don't normally get that close to her. Poor Penny. I hope the ...
Scratch Stupor
'Scratch stupor' is the technical term for what these ducks and Canada geese are suffering from. Well, actually, I just made the term up, but it's what happens to waterfowl when they eat too much scratch, which is a commercial waterfowl food you buy ...
Duck Dynamics...
The goslings may have left us, but the ducks remain. I had mentioned earlier that the duck interactions have been strange. We started with two male mallard mixes (Walter, with the bigger white ring around his neck, and Gus) and a female mallard mix (...
Lots of Characters in Our Little Play...
We were sitting on the deck tonight watching the little tableau spread before us. The three goats were play-fighting, head-butting each other and running around. The two geese-parents were closely watching the three miscellaneous geese who have shown...
