We have eggs!

[Haole Girl]

A duck laid 7 eggs in our front yard! Each day there is a new one. I wonder how many we will end up with? And, I wonder why I can never catch the momma duck sitting on them? Strange, isn't it?

:shrug:

[Mikimouse]

1. Oooohhhh! Duck eggs...Yummers!

:evilgrin:

[Haole Girl]

2. HA! Very funny!

They are NOT for eating!

[Mikimouse]

5. The devil made me do it...get some pictures when they hatch...

I'm sure that they will be very cute.

[Haole Girl]

11. Thanks, I will.

I will try, anyway. I wish I was about 10 years younger..I would have grown up using computers and would know how to post my own pics!

I'll figure it out.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I hope you can get pics of them when they hatch!

Good for you, to have such a place that they feel safe enough to be there!

:bounce: :bounce:

[Haole Girl]

6. Thank you, I will certainly do that

One of these days, I'll have to learn how to use photo bucket, or one of the other sites, so I can post personal photos.

[Ladyhawk]

4. She's waiting until the clutch is complete before she sits.

That way the babies will develop at the same rate. My African parrots sat on their eggs from the first one, so the babies hatched a few days apart and came in different sizes. Ducklings are precocial (ready to move at hatching), so they need to hatch at about the same time.

[Haole Girl]

7. Oh, thank you so much for the explanation

That makes sense! :)

[Ladyhawk]

8. You're welcome. You should have a great time with the little fluffballs.

My "fluffballs" were "altricial" rather than "precocial." Mom and dad had to care for them in the nest until I could take over...and what a job it was!

[AlienGirl]

12. Hi Ladyhawk! I haven't seen you much lately!

How are things going? :hi:

Tucker

[retrospective66]

9. I'm concerned about these unborn children

The mother is probably one of those welfare types- Has a bunch of kids for more money and waddles off! Tsk-Tsk-Tsk

[Haole Girl]

10. No worries. There is a whole village to take care of 'em!

:)