Posted on 05/25/2019 7:46:12 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I usually see only about a dozen ducklings per mother duck but in this case I counted at least 20 ducklings. Is this unusual? Just a few scenes of the Mama duck with her MANY ducklings.
She’s running an illegal daycare...report her.
Does not seem reasonable does it? We have Canada Geese and they seem to only have less than 4 but both parents help out. We once had mallards with up to 8 or so and both parents helped out with them as well.
Probably millennial ducks still living with their parents having ducklings of their own.
Must be Catholic.
She might have taken on another duck’s brood. They sometimes do that. I put duck eggs under one of my setting hens to hatch once and the chicken raised her chicks plus the ducklings. You should have seen her run the bank of the farm pond the first time half of her brood jumped in the water for a swim.
Our male ducks are irresponsible and do NOT help out with the ducklings. This Mama Duck raises those ducklings on her own.
I think these ducklings are all from one brood. Look close and they look alike. Brother and sister ducklings by blood.
Yet another ducking welfare recipient
LOL!
Cute!!
we had a duck in our yard a few years ago with 17 ducklings.
Sometimes Critters adopt the young orphans, which are not their offspring after the parents get killed.
We have one doe in our area that has 4 fawns following her. She had twins and apparently adopted two orphans.
If they are wild ducks they probably will all look alike, especially as hatchlings. Most I have ever seen do. They could all have the same father. I’m not familiar will how many eggs wild ducks lay but domestic ducks don’t usually have that many in a brood. None of mine did anyway. My chickens and ducks did try to steal babies from the other hens though.
Taking on another duck’s brood is the likely explanation, although it isn’t impossible that they’re all hers.
One year we had a doe with twins that frequently moved through our yard. During the weaning season she showed up with five, & then I saw her again with eight youngsters in tow. I’d never seen that before...or since.
LOL!
Saw a mama duck with 15 ducklings in tow last weekend at Eldridge Park lake in Upstate NY.
I grew up on a lake that in some years had large numbers of mother ducks and hatchlings. In a colony of ducks, when most of the mother ducks are out foraging by themselves, hatchlings will sometimes follow a single mother duck who goes out to feed with her brood. She then finds that her own half dozen ducks have been joined by three or four times as many. The poor creature may also look bewildered, as if to say, “How the Hell did that happen?”
Thank God ducks don’t believe in abortion.
This invasive species breeds like rats and destroys the habitat of indigenous species. People feed them white bread so they come around looking for handouts. The problem is the white bread contains bacteria that interferes with their digestive systems. So they get the runs and crap on everything and everywhere spreading salmonella laced poop. They crap in swimming pools, fountains, on side walks everywhere.
Then property managers have to remove them due to nuisance complaints and insurance liabilities. Removing them means you have to destroy them. You cannot relocate them just like you cannot relocate Iguanas another invasive species in Florida. The law requires you to kill them and fines you if you do not.
https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/birds/waterfowl/muscovy-duck/
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