S3 – Episode Five – The Special Little Duck is Still Alive
Well our extra efforts to get the little girl from episode 4 to eat paid off and it was like throwing a light switch. As soon as she ate and then followed up with a drink all was well. Now a day later it is tough to even see which one she is.
We also answer some questions and introduce the babies to arugula greens today. They approve!
They have ferocious appetites considering their size and age. How long before there are duck eggs for breakfast from them?
They start laying at 22-24 weeks. So about the first week of August which is planned because it about when the adults will molt.
I would have thought that if they were socialized as chicks then they would still eat from your hand as adults like most animals would. I am surprised that they turn more feral as adults.
Flock mentality. All the videos you see of pet ducks on youtube are very unhappy ducks, they have no flock so bond to a person. They have anxiety whenever their people (flock) are gone. The cute videos of the duck waiting on the kid to come home from school, what that is amounts to a freaked out ducks with separation anxiety disorder. I need to talk about the concept of pet ducks in an episode soon.