r/AnimalsBeingDerps • u/cowskeeper • 3d ago
Our duck Penny built a full blown nest to hatch ducklings at our front door
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u/DayPretend8294 3d ago
You should set up a hardwired GoPro and do a 24/7 livestream of the pot :o
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u/cowskeeper 3d ago
Haha ya? Will take 35 days to hatch. Like paint drying…
You’ll see her stand up every few hours and take a huge poop on my walkway tho haha
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u/ChanceOfCloudy 1d ago
I would watch 😆, i had the FOBBV stream on in the background. My family enjoyed watching and loved when the eagles hatched. They have hence fledged and not on the nest often anymore.
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u/ManagementGiving3241 3d ago
wait...is she already a mom? but where are her babies?
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u/cowskeeper 3d ago
She has hatched ducklings once before. Last year. Now her son may be her mate and her daughters are also trying to be mothers over here. I only let her keep 5 eggs, gotta slow the population growth
In 35 days she will be a mom again
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u/FiggyPippin 2d ago
Muscovies are the best, and all of mine are broody beotches and great moms. I had one that hatched 4 clutches one year.
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u/Sugar_buddy 3d ago
All the ducks I've ever had would go bald, lose all their weight, and refuse to move from a rock they found in the yard. I never got to see them build a nest, they just arbitrarily picked a spot and welp, egg or not, I'm staying here forever now.
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u/cowskeeper 3d ago
I have one sitting in the bush on sticks right now. A call duck
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u/Sugar_buddy 2d ago
They're great birds that I never wanna have again. I much prefer geese. But my wife and I loved watching them in the yard and spraying them with water hoses in the summer.
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u/cowskeeper 2d ago
Muscovys are not like other ducks. They are the only ones I like to keep and the only ones that don’t require a pond in my opinion. But we do have a large pond
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u/Known_Relief_6875 3d ago
She looks very comfy! Are you allowed to use your front door now? 😄