Yesterday was a busy day, trying to get things done outside before the storm came rolling in. I was working in the garden around the duck pen and I popped my head in but disappointingly, she was STILL sitting. After a trip to the grocery store later in the afternoon, I came home and noticed out the window while putting groceries away that June was behaving strangely in her nest. I dropped the groceries and ran out with my phone in hopes to see some new feathered friends. Sure as shit, there were two bright fluffy yellow ducklings all snuggled up next to mommy. I couldn't believe it, our first set of babies born on our farm! Words cant describe the feeling of joy and amazement. We had watched her drop each of these eggs, roll them into a nesting spot, build a wonderful nest and sit for weeks. The process was long and miraculous considering it was all instinctive. We just knew she'd be a good little mommy when the time came.
By 10:00 last night we still only had the two ducklings. Here's a few pictures of the first ones to hatch. The photos weren't that great as it was dark out, and raining. I did my best.
None of us slept very well last night, nervous about June hatching babies all night in the dark. I was up before my alarm even went off anxious to see if we had any more hatchlings. Much to my surprise, there were 5 more babies all with different markings so we had a total of 7 by 7am. Several more eggs are still in the nest, so who knows how many we'll actually end up with.
We all have bets going on as to how many we'll finally end up with. I said 8, Kayla said 10, Bella said 11, and Kyle went with 12 (his lucky #). By default we gave Tim 9, means no one chose that and he didn't put his 2 cents in before going to bed. Here's a few photos I snapped early this morning of the new babies all cuddled up next to their mama. Congrats June!
#7 is hiding, but it's in there!
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