Fang the duck is a good momma goose.
Apr. 19th, 2016 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crazychicknladyLast week, Fang, the fawn and white runner duck, decided to start sitting the goose egg nest.
Fang is the sole survivor of the great duck slaughter of 2015. After the owls took out her flock, she attached herself to the two geese in her yard, Wobbles and Wet Neck. She is bonded to them. Even after we put the new ducks into the yard, Fang still hangs with the geese (we sometimes call her the third goose in that yard).
This morning I swapped out the two rotting eggs she was so carefully mothering, with two freshly layed eggs from the other geese. This way she might have a shot at actually hatching something.
ETA: Well, a flip switched in her head, and Fang is no longer trying to hatch the eggs. (April 24th)
ETA 2: About two days after the last edit, Fang started laying eggs again, something she had taken a break from while being broody.
Fang is the sole survivor of the great duck slaughter of 2015. After the owls took out her flock, she attached herself to the two geese in her yard, Wobbles and Wet Neck. She is bonded to them. Even after we put the new ducks into the yard, Fang still hangs with the geese (we sometimes call her the third goose in that yard).
This morning I swapped out the two rotting eggs she was so carefully mothering, with two freshly layed eggs from the other geese. This way she might have a shot at actually hatching something.
ETA: Well, a flip switched in her head, and Fang is no longer trying to hatch the eggs. (April 24th)
ETA 2: About two days after the last edit, Fang started laying eggs again, something she had taken a break from while being broody.
