A Muscovy rescue mission

PICTURE OF THE NEWBIE SOON! 

    As we all know I have the kind of personality that just can not saying no to helping out a little animal in  need of some TLC... add a sad story to it and there is just no way I can resist taking the little critter home with me. This time the call came while Brandon & I were strolling through Target on a late night shopping run. We then got a call from Brandon's boss frantically asking if we would be interested in taking another little duckling home with us, of course, I said YES! She then went on to tell us that this little guy was the only survivor and that the rest of its siblings had drowned in the swimming pool in their back yard, so sad. She had to pull all the other ones out as the mama duck stood by, and one little guy was still alive and just barely hanging on. We went to pick the little guy up as fast as possible & stuck him under a heat lamp inside for the night. So far the little cutie is hanging on strong & is just as cute as can be! We did find that the heat lamp, although provides great heat, just was not quite cutting for this less than day old baby. I decided to fill up a small pillow case with some rice ( which we obviously have plenty of ) and microwave it for a couple minutes, the little baby loves it! I make it like a little nest and then just place her inside and she falls right asleep. 

These are the three orginal ducklings, the ones in the video below. They are just the prettiest little babies! 

Also, discovered the chickens and ducks favorite treat today! I am all about making my own food, for all my animals, poultry included. So here's the "recipe":

Chicken Food:

• 1 C cooked oats, I use steel cut just because I love the texture that it has
• 2 cucumber diced into tiny pieces
• 2 handfuls spinach
• 1 hard boiled egg diced
• 2 tomatoes diced
• 2 Tbsp. ground flax

Combine all the above and that's it! It actually looks really yummy when it is all blended up & I'm sure Brandon would try it if I left in the inside fridge, but I try to keep all the animal food in the outside one just to make sure that does not happen. I make a lot of different chicken & duck snacks with lots of different goodies so there will be many many more in the future. The greatest part about having the birds around is there is NEVER an excuse to throw away any vegetables or fruit. 

Here is a short video of my little outside quackers enjoying some tomatoes. The little ones are Muscovys and the bigger girl in the back is a Campbell Khaki.