A Wonderful Day
Mar. 23rd, 2012 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberfocusToday has been an amazing day. It's sunny, it's warm, I slept last night and had energy today, and I wrote like a maniac. I haven't spent hours writing in ages. And I still want to write more. It has been so long since that has happened! It helps that I now have everything transferred onto the new laptop.
But more importantly we have some new family members. And aren't they just adorable?
You should have heard the flock looking around when they heard all the cheeping. They were so curious. It was like they recognized the sound, but weren't quite sure why. The ducks are cayugas and will be quite beautiful when grown with black and green feathers. The chicks are silver laced wyandottes, auracanas, and gold sex-linked something or others (sex-linked means they are hybridized and wouldn't breed true if we were to breed them, but we aren't). It's going to be a very colorful flock. Hopefully this time some of the ducks will be girls. Only one was last time and she died first. (Damn raccoons!) You can't tell with ducks. Usually female chicks will stoop under your hand while male chicks will rise up to meet your hand, but there's no such behavior in ducks. Luck of the draw, but I would like to try duck eggs, so keep your fingers crossed we have at least one girl, preferrably more.
But more importantly we have some new family members. And aren't they just adorable?
You should have heard the flock looking around when they heard all the cheeping. They were so curious. It was like they recognized the sound, but weren't quite sure why. The ducks are cayugas and will be quite beautiful when grown with black and green feathers. The chicks are silver laced wyandottes, auracanas, and gold sex-linked something or others (sex-linked means they are hybridized and wouldn't breed true if we were to breed them, but we aren't). It's going to be a very colorful flock. Hopefully this time some of the ducks will be girls. Only one was last time and she died first. (Damn raccoons!) You can't tell with ducks. Usually female chicks will stoop under your hand while male chicks will rise up to meet your hand, but there's no such behavior in ducks. Luck of the draw, but I would like to try duck eggs, so keep your fingers crossed we have at least one girl, preferrably more.
