Baby Ducks and Baby Chicks!!

BABY CHICKS!!

I don't know what it is about baby chicks. They have a cute spell then an ugly spell.

Right now they are losing the baby feathers and getting their tween feathers in.

This spell they are in they aren't that cute. They sure are busy chirping and running around.

It always amazes me how they can teach themselves to give themselves a dust bathe.

Not the best picture but was trying to capture them doing this without startling them.

BABY DUCKS!!!

A week after getting the baby chicks our duck eggs started hatching.

I started with 48 eggs in the incubator. A little over a dozen didn't look they should. So I took them out 3 days before the hatching began.

First batch going out to the hen house.

I have a stall ready to put them in.

I would leave one or two in the incubator for the next ones starting to hatch.

Another group ready to meet the family.

Some of these little ducklings were so loud I needed to get them out of the house.

One ice cream tub at a time taking them out.

Not gonna lie I lost count after 10.

There is just something about ducklings that I just love.

Besides the adult ones swimming in our pond.

The lighting doesn't do justice to how pretty they are.

Check out the one with the black stripe around his eye.

These little ducklings are so busy. It is so neat adding new ones in the group and they just blend in with total acceptance.

Stripe eye duckling is so unique out of the bunch.

Tim counted and thinks about 24-25 of these little cuties.

I had a few eggs left that didn't hatch. A whole day later, I woke up to just one little duck.

So this lone ranger was the last one to go to the hen house stall.

I really wanted to just keep this one with us and make it a pet.

I don't think Tim would approve. Besides ducks smell.

So many and so busy. It's funny to watch them run around. They are growing fast and are already bigger than the little chicks.