Chris and Steve's Weblog – City Chickens

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I have made a big decision about the Call Ducks and  they are now living at Sandwell Valley Park Farm. I think it was the right decision for both me and them but it was heart breaking nevertheless. My original white pair Puddles and Jemima have been with us since June 2006. They were hatched here [...]

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I have finally had to put some of the Call Ducks out for sale. They are lovely but to be fair to them I don’t have enough room for them. Ideally they need plenty of grass and moving water. I am letting them go for ten pounds each so a bargain for someone. I have [...]

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The final count of baby call ducks for this season is twelve. I have four sets of  ’babies’ of different ages to look after. I shall have to find new homes for some of them which is always a wrench. The difficult bit is deciding who to keep and who to sell.

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The first of the baby call ducks has hatched despite the cold. I think he is a boy so I have called him George after the husband of my friend Joyce from the Yoga class.

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Jemima, our white Call Duck, is sitting on a nest of fertile eggs so I hope she has some luck this year. This is her second season and last year she only had one surviving duckling. Puddles, her mate is standing guard on top of their hutch and warding off all comers. We only have four [...]

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I was testing the camera in the garden yesterday so here are a few of my hens and ducks.  This is one of my White Pekins showing off her lovely tail feathers. Star one of our white Silkie bantams. Bums up. Blue and Sadie, our two Orpington bantams. Flower and Rosie, two of our Call Ducks.

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Update – 26th March and Frank the duck has gone to live with a very nice couple from Halesowen so we hope she will be very content with her new husband.

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  The Runner Ducks hatched this weekend. Out of six eggs we got three beautiful ducklings. It looks like two girls and a boy, Libbie named the two girls Honey and Treacle and we decided on Francis Drake for the boy, Frank for short, in honour of our good friend and neighbour at the allotment. We [...]

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Yesterday we took our black Silkie bantam cockerel to a new home. The chap had all sorts of chickens, loads of large white ducks and some Indian Runner Ducks. I have often looked at pictures of the runner duck and seen them in the flesh and thought them to be comical but have never considered [...]

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