{pretty, happy, funny, real} Ducklings!

{pretty}

Our future slug patrol arrived yesterday!  I might characterize them as cute, rather than pretty, but I think pretty works, too.  They’re Indian Runner Ducklings, two chocolate and two black.  Ghirardelli, Dilletante, Boadicea, and Cleopatra.  Hannah and Naomi spent enough time watching them yesterday that they figured out who’s who and can tell them all apart.

 

{happy and funny}

We left the ducklings pretty much alone during their first day – coming through the mail is stressful, you know.  So the kids were overjoyed to get to hold them (briefly) this morning.

Hannah and Boadicea

Naomi and Dilletante

The ducklings had better ideas – they wanted to get free, so we had some funny moments of climbing arms and attempts to jump off laps.  Ducklings don’t have a lot of foresight;  What will I do when I get up to the shoulder? doesn’t even occur to them.

I didn’t get any pictures of the younger two holding them because they needed the help of my hands, so I couldn’t take pictures.

{real}

These little girls will be inside for a few weeks, and they’re going to outgrow their brooder very quickly.  We’ll have to find a bigger container. 

And they can’t fly, but the can certainly jump (the shoe box in the first picture wasn’t nearly tall enough, and the kids had to keep their hands around it to keep them from jumping out while I changed out the bedding in their brooder), so we’ll have to find something with high sides.

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