They actually tell you when one gets out! Yesterday afternoon I was in the yard doing some spring clean up when I noticed the ducks were making a racket. “What are they freaking out about?” I thought and went over…
Tick Patrol
Tick Patrol reporting for duty! One of the draws for me to Magpie Ducks is their known foraging tendencies. They’ll eat just about any bug they can get their beaks on. Last year I watched one of them crunch an…
The Long Game
With the dogs I try really hard to take the long range view. The ‘what is the goal I’m really working today?’ the ‘what behavior do I really want to live with for the next 15 years?’ the ‘how will…
Duck Duty
It’s been an active couple of weeks around here, hence my blogging absence. This weekend we had the joy of sitting a couple of ducklings for a good friend of mine! They are chocolate runner duck babies. Super sweet, social…
Expanding the duck pen
or keeping up with the jones. Lol. What do I mean by that? well a couple of weeks ago I noticed my neighbor had started laying mulch on her portion of the far back of our bordering properties. She’d removed…
A Year Of Ducks
Today marks the ducks first complete year of life on this planet! Tomorrow a year ago, they were packaged up at the hatchery and shipped via USPS where 2 days later my husband and I picked up our little quack…
Duck Egg Doughnuts – Gluten Free
It has been six years since my last doughnut. That is until this past Tuesday evening. When I found a way to make doughnuts I might possibly be able to eat. And I could. And they are glorious. I forgot…
Ducks Being Difficult
The ducks were rather reluctant to return to the safety of their overnight pen this afternoon. Zora and I had our work cut out for us. We haven’t worked the ducks in over a month, and Zora was being pushy…
Bits of Training Fun
Well we all told had way more than just ‘bits of fun’ but here are video bits of some of our fun this afternoon out in the yard. I’m finally feeling back in the land of the living (a norovirus…
Snow, Real Snow!
This weekend we were graced with the first real snow of the season! And by real snow, I mean over a foot of it. Yea sure we’ve so far had a couple of dustings, even a couple of inches, but…