Buttercup my female duck and her duckling are doing really well. Latterly he’s been losing his baby feathers and is looking more grown up than ever. This duckling is the first successful duck hatchling here on Pine Haven as Daisy the previous duck who was taken by a fox didn’t get to brood completely over her eggs before she met her untimely demise. We still don’t know whether the duckling is male or female as I’m unable to tell until he grows the one curly feather on his back indicating he is a male. If that feather never happens then “it” becomes a female. This takes a while so the duckling will remain nameless until such time. Each morning I open up their enclosure and Buttercup followed by her duckling eagerly make their way down to the dam for the day. Donald however is a strange cup of tea. I mean really have you ever heard about a duck that would rather spend the day with a group of chickens than enjoying a big dam with lots of water. Ducks love water right? Well I must have the exception to that rule. Donald will not put his webbed foot out of the chicken run. He will gladly watch Buttercup and her duckling waddle down to the bottom dam and he seems happy enough to stay with the chickens. I really don’t know the reason for this as I’ve always just thought that Ducks and water are a marriage made in heaven. My animals show me new things all the time.
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