Goodness. It is always something, isn't is? so sorry about the duck.

kay

I don't know why. Did you check your advanced settings to see what it says? I'd love to see pics of your ducks.

Debra

I would love to see your ducks Too! I hope something did not get her. I would love to have a few chickens, but realistically, DH and I don't eat a lot of eggs. And if I ordered chicks, I would probably get several roosters. Since there is no way I will be eating chickens I have looked in the eye, I can see only problems. Plus, we now seem to have a racoon living under our deck who feels the food I put out for the stray cat is for him too.

Recently I received notifications of a couple of comments that were made quite a while back. I'd already received notice of newer ones before I saw those! Sorry about the duckling. :(

Alex

Nancy - you still have the feral Ghost hanging out at your place?

Unfortunately, no, Alex. I had tamed him a lot,even enticed him inside the house, just inside the door. He would even sit in my lap. He always needed to be coaxed, but was doing better than I ever thought. His leg healed, and he got around quite well for a 3 legged cat. Would have been so much better for him if it had been A back leg that A front. A couple of days before Christmas I noticed him staring off, he disappeared and never came back. I had hoped he would come back, but I guess not.

I will post a picture of my duckies tomorrow . Too late tonight they are in bed.

Alex - They look like identical triplets! LOL

Little Mama at the rear and two of her kids - probably Osiris and Sirius, (all spayed and neutered now) - though this is from 2013 so I'm unsure. They all of them, pretty much, still follow me around the property. Can be pests in the garden, I can tell you!

Sorry to hear about your duck, hope it just flew away. Beware of raccoons, they can harm your animals, eat any food out and even worse. Six years ago when I was at my mom's house, the raccoons would come out at night and eat all the cat food she had out. She had a wooden storage shed that she started storing the food in, and they even were chewing and ripping the siding, trying to get in.

Unlike apparently a lot of people, I an partial to black cats. My 1st cat was black.

I think I am going to have to start feeding the stray cat inside, hopefully that will discourage the raccoon. Stray will be happy, definitely not a feral but I don't think he has a home. Does not stay here all the time, but often shows up with some nasty injuries. Not been neutered, so I may get that done in hopes he will stay here all the time. I don't want to steal some ones pet, but he has come back twice with what looks like b.b shots to the head, and other woulda that do not look like from cat fights. He gets those too, he is a very little guy so comes out on the losing end of a fight. He stood up to the racoon just this morning, not too smart.

Here as promised are some pics of my ducks and chickens.

Papa Duck aka " Big Boy"

This is Mama Duck aka "Meep" ( that's the sound she makes)

Here are the two babies that are left about 8 weeks old . Clipped everyone's wings yesterday

Here are the Grand old Boy .....he is the father of most of my chicks and a couple of ladies he is escorting around the property.

These are some of my chicks .....about 11 weeks old ( all hatched in an incubator ) but I was not particulary successful . I put in about 40 eggs each time and got 2 chicks each time , a total of 3 batches of 40 eggs for 6 chicks .....

and here are 5 of the 10 chicks hatched by hens . Not sure why I am getting so many white ones with a blue father and mostly blue hens but that is what I got this season .

Nancy you would be hard pressed to eat one of these chickens . They are bantams and have so little meat on them it isn't funny. I have them more for entertainment purposes really . We do eat the eggs but I love their feathered legs and feet and the papa Rooster is hilarious when he runs . Looks like Charlie Chaplain running away from you . All he is missing is the walking stick. LOL ! .

Looking at these on my phone, do they really have fussy feet? I don't know why I want chickens so much, I did not like them much when I was a kid. Well, I loved the baby chicks. I remember my mom hatching eggs under an old towel an a light bulb, with good results. Chickens so look a lot like Chaplin don't they, and I bet it is really emphasized on yours! So fun, thank you for sharing your ducks and chickens. My mother raised "banties" but looked nothing like yours. I remember the little eggs. Mostly she had Dominic hens.

Nancy, yes my bantam Cochins have feathers all down their legs and onto their feet . Some have really gorgeous long feathers on the back of the legs and on the sides of their feet I will catch one and take a closeup to show you . Oh and if you are looking for docile chickens these and Silkies ( the silkies have black skin ) are good choices ......very gentle birds and the girls are good broody hens . If your Mom had Dominics ,then yes you could eat those kind they are a duel purpose chicken.

The fun looking chickens would be what I would have. My niece has a silky that I have admired and I remember she said it was friendlier than the others.

Those are hilarious with their feathered legs!! I, too, had my share of chickens when I was small. I hated gathering eggs from the henhouse with those hens ready to peck!! I don’t think I have ever wanted chickens since!! Where I live, a Fort Knox type of henhouse would be required to keep the other varmints from getting them. A traumatic memory of my childhood is witnessing a hawk swoop down and get a baby chick and fly away with it. But I did enjoy your pics!!

Kate

No idea on the Houzz issue your having. I am experiencing a bit of oddity with Houzz as I have now 2 banners at the top and 2 icons for my login.

Love the ducks and chicken pics.

Julia - yeah, it's been doing that for me for a while now.

Those chickens and ducks are very nice, and I would love to have chickens, but got turned down on that one. I too like black cats, even thought Katie Did IT is a double handfull. She loves to sneak and hide where she isn't supposed to be and is very hard on toilet paper (she likes to unroll it.

Kay - LOL about Katie Did It! Our Fearless occasionally does that with the paper towels, but usually only if she doesn't get her leash-walk. :)

Alex