Comments on: A new future mom – the duck http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/04/22/the-duck/ Your online simplicity village Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:07:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: cpthegreat http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/04/22/the-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-440 cpthegreat Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:12:47 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/04/22/the-duck/#comment-440 I love ducks!! How wonderful to have a wild one nesting near you! I love ducks!! How wonderful to have a wild one nesting near you!

]]> By: Dori Fritzinger http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/04/22/the-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-439 Dori Fritzinger Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:39:11 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2008/04/22/the-duck/#comment-439 Mother duck will wet her feathers everyday by a water source even dewy/wet grass. This maintains the humidity needed to mature and hatch her babies. Today our female goose started hatching her egg clutch. Since we only have "Goosey" - we had replaced her sterile eggs with hopefully fertile duck eggs. So far she has 3 "Ducgooslings" Mother duck will wet her feathers everyday by a water source even dewy/wet grass. This maintains the humidity needed to mature and hatch her babies.

Today our female goose started hatching her egg clutch. Since we only have “Goosey” – we had replaced her sterile eggs with hopefully fertile duck eggs. So far she has 3 “Ducgooslings”

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