Our sweet girl duck, Peep, started laying baby duck eggs, one a day for the last four days! Yay baby ducks!! Here is egg number 1!
I guess she’s actually not expecting like we think of it but she’ll have babies sometime in February! I contacted the wonderful couple that gave us Bo and Peep to learn more about this baby duck process.
Peep is the smaller of the two in the photo below. Bo is the daddy with the grey head.
We don’t know how many eggs she will lay but I just found out that Mama Peep’s mom laid over 20! Mama Peep will start sitting on the nest of eggs full time when the last egg is laid except for taking eating breaks.
We will start counting the number of days from when the last egg is laid so we will know when 28 days from the last egg being laid is. 28 days is approximately when they will start hatching.
28 days after the last egg is laid we need to separate Bo, the daddy, from Peep and the babies. He may get aggressive and hurt or kill them. That’s kinda weird but I guess ducks aren’t like human daddies who love and protect their young.
I’ll let ya’ll know as things progress with this new adventure!
BECAUSE HE LIVES 