My Wish Book

You know you might be a little bit of a country girl when the new McMurray Hatchery catalog arrives in the mail and you exclaim that your "wish book" is finally here!
It seems like every other day there is a new seed catalog in the mailbox and I love sitting down with a cup of hot chocolate and dreaming about playing in the dirt again. Yet nothing quite says Spring to me like a magazine full of chicks and ducklings. I sold all of my ducks and even my one goose last year and I miss them more than I thought I would. I haven't decided what breed I am going to get this time. I have had Indian Runners, Mallards, Rouens, Black Cayugas, Blue Swedes, White Pekin and Khaki Campbells. I really loved them all. Oh! Decisions, decisions! :)

Ducklings

Our 2009 crop of ducklings have started to hatch. One Indian Runner has hatched out three ducklings and another Indian Runner is still sitting with about 3 weeks left to go. Mrs. Mallard gets our "Mother of the Year" award for hatching out 14 ducklings! They are so much fun to watch.

Blue Swedish Ducks

We have decided to part with our Blue Swedish trio. They are nice ducks but larger than the other breeds we have and the drake is too large for those other females. We are asking $30 for the three of them.

Easter Ducks!

Here's a pic of our new Easter ducklings we picked up yesterday at a couple of local farm supply stores.  We picked out 4 Mallards cause we thought they were adorable with their pretty colors, 2 white pekin cause Matthew just had to have a white duck and then we were lucky enough to find some Khaki Campbells and we took 4 of those for egg production.  I'm not sure if there is anything cuter than a baby duck!

New Ducklings

Here's a picture of our fawn and white Indian Runner family. Mama hatched out 5 babies. We still have 2 more mammas sitting on a total of 15 eggs.

Ducklings are here!

My tomato duck hatched out 4 ducklings this morning and she's still sitting on 4 more eggs. She's very protective of her nest and her babies!