37 Ducklings... And Three Mama Ducks?! 🦆❤️

Mark and Terry here, and welcome to the 10-acre woods. Beautiful day. It has warmed up. It was quite cool. It was down to, I think it was eight degrees Celsius during the week. So it's been getting cold, but yesterday was 29 degrees, high humidity. Today it's supposed to be 26 degrees. So it's... September is right around the corner, but the warmer temperatures are still hanging on. There's still things to do around the farm. This week also we had a few more ducklings hatch. So Tiana went out, and the duck that was in the... I didn't get pooped on this time. Yeah, yeah, the duck and goose enclosure. She hatched out, and we moved the ducklings over into the nursery. So we'll take you out there and have a look at all 37 ducklings now. And it looks like one mom is taking care of all of them. Good morning, Levi. How you doing? Look at the dew. Look at the dew. Okay, go and open up. Get these guys fed. Get into the routine. JD's got to come out or in. Astrid's got to go out. Yeah, everybody knows what part they're going to play. JD's going to go into the building. She looks a little stiff on the back end. Wow, this weather. Yeah. All of us with our little arthritis are feeling it. That's the key, Shorty. That was my hand, not your bowl. Just eager for breakfast. Right. Oh, dusty. Why does it feel like it's just shedding? Warm, cool, warm, cool. Yeah. All right, so we'll come back in and open up those ones. Open up that gate to everybody once we're done the feeding. So our flock of birds are flying around. All these pigeons. We do this in the morning, in the evening. It's just really nice to see them out flying. We're going to get dizzy. I know. I was just going to say, starting to get dizzy. So something that happened yesterday that I spent a few hours correcting. I do have a router out here and this router is wired directly down, well actually up and over, and then it goes under the ground and into the building here. And it's plugged in to this router inside the building. So it wasn't working. You can see there's a second light up is green. So that should be flickering green. It's high speed and it wasn't on at all. So looking around, it comes across and goes down into the floor there. So I checked underneath. It was obviously a break in the line. And right at that point where it goes through, it was chewed. And there were two of the wires that were chewed through. So under further investigation, we had a bunch of these feed bags over here in the corner. And there was a pile of oat husks all up in here. So there's been mice that have been coming in. We thought this was a free of mice zone, but no. So yesterday we put a couple traps, mouse traps there. And I set up this MagiCam, real light MagiCam camera to monitor that. Nothing has happened overnight. So we're hoping that they're, they fed, they left, and now they can't get back in because they've sealed that hole. Yeah, exactly. That we know of. Well, no, because I always have, I always have traps set. Yeah. And I've never caught, right. Just in case, because you want to know. But then, well, a little while ago, I took out the traps, and I'm like, ah, you know. We've never had mice. Yeah. So we're good. But of course, when we installed that about a month and a half ago, maybe two months ago, I drilled a hole a little bit larger. And it's, I guess, just, just enough for a mouse to come in. Well, not enough, because they chewed the wire. Well, they chewed the wire, I guess, yeah. Maybe, maybe there was a chunky one. After he left, he couldn't get back out. Right. He's like, oh, I got to chew this, the edge of the wire, so I can get out. This door will often get left open. And I'm always, so I, I've always had mouse traps set here. You know, and if you know, you do it against the walls. Yeah. Because that's where the mice travel. Yeah. So we really have to, we know there's lots of mice out there and it is what it is. Yeah, they're following us in the cars. Yeah, Tara saw one jump off the back bumper of my car this morning. We don't know where it came from. I've had issues with mice being in my car. And I have since not made sure I don't have any food in there. The one thing I usually have is sunflower seeds. Yeah. And, you know, you leave them on the seat and then there's a bunch of husks there. And I'm like, oh boy. So turbo. Yep. And then Tinker. So Tinker's going to come in. You're getting her food. Yeah. Stand back and watch the, watch the process happen. Watch the magic. So here's the, uh, that's, that's oats right there. That's oats. I give him canola. Canola to hold the weight. Yeah. No, it's neither one of you. All right. Come on, kids. They know better. So the melon, which is great for, uh, deworming your herds naturally. Yeah. The seeds primarily. Yeah. Pumpkin time. Well, actually I heard on the radio pumpkin spice time at Starbucks is now, it seems like Starbucks, uh, denotes what the weather or what the season is going to be. Apparently. Okay. Yeah. So Tara's going to prep for tomorrow. Oh yes. That's always exciting. Yeah. Good treat on a hot day. It's not quite hot yet, but it's coming. That's juicy. Anyway. Hey Bronwyn. No, it's on the, it's on the ground. I don't have any time. She comes is when she thinks you have food. Oh, here, let me help you out with this. Turbo is having no issues. He's done with that. There you go, George. So an interesting story. Here is the mama duck. That was, this was kind of in the way here. So we appointed this out, I think last weekend. And you can see there's only two eggs. There's no ducklings. So interesting story. She is confused. She had seven ducklings, but where are they? Well, they are somewhere in that group of 37. So what had happened is Tiana went and grabbed the ducklings. And then they grabbed mom and brought them all over into here. She put the ducklings down and mama took off back over to where her nest is. Not realizing that her kids are in here. They're not over at the nest. So I believe Tiana took some footage of that. There we go. We have released the babies into the pen. Mama got a little freaked out and ran over there. These guys decided to hide underneath me. Let's see if mom comes over. Oh, she's coming. It looks like there's seven little babies. Oh, nope. She's got, she's looking at the wrong way. There we go. Follows mom. There we go. Happy little family back. They have completely blended in with the older ones. Mom is over there trying to get back into the big pen. Because I think she thinks the babies are still there, but we did put them down. And if you'll notice, there's a couple smaller ones in with these ones. So there they are. If you can count them, there should be 37 of them there. And it's so cute because what they do is with all the little flies that are out. And there goes one. Yeah, right. Yeah. They see these little bugs and these little flies that go around. And they chase after them. So we got three moms. And there's one mom, you know, that I mentioned earlier. It's like 37 and one mom. There are three moms there, but it was funny because the one black one in the back. She was, uh, she had a whole bunch of them at one time. But now it looks like they're sharing the responsibility. So I'm not sure what the date is when the mama, uh, Nana, Nana Lisa. And her three kids, Moo, Penguin, and Panda. Moo and Penguin. Panda. Oh, must be inside. They're going to be heading out to a new farm. I'm not sure when, but it sounded like it was, uh, it was fairly recently. Oh, there he is. Oh, having some hay, aren't you? So yeah, they're going to be heading off soon. Aren't you? You got hay on your face. You like that better than the grains? So yeah, they're going to be heading off. I imagine sometime in September and September is two days away. So time flies. It's soon going to be winter again and we'll continue this vicious cycle of seasons. Charlie, good morning, Charlie. All done shorty. Are you all done? JD has done her breakfast. She's waiting out here. It's basically just to keep them apart. Food aggression is, is a thing. And we just want to make sure that. Well, that, uh, JD and shorty are getting their little extras. So they're on their own little diet. And they get hay, but they also do get some, uh, some other grains and feed. Just to make sure, keeping the weight on them. That little chipmunk. There are a lot of them around. Oh, are the nuts starting, the acorns starting to fall? It looks like, how close, usually you can get pretty close to these guys. What are you eating? Is that an acorn? Oh, it is too. Oh, look at you. Yeah. Just peeling it. You don't eat the skin, do you? Okay. Oh, and he's going to take that off somewhere, I guess. Where'd it go? Well, so the, there's quite a few acorn trees here on the property, a lot in the back. And so at this time of year, I haven't really seen too many acorns, but I guess this is one of the first. And the animals will go out back. And when you walk out back with them, you just see them all underneath the oak trees. And they're just feeding on the, uh, the acorns that fall. Uh, nope. No white tip. Hey. No, no, you're not still there. You left your nut. Well, I left half of it. Oh, is that your hole, is it? That was an acorn that fell. All right, go get your nut. Yeah. Yeah, see, here we go. Oh, see, that one just fell. Yeah, there they are. Here. Well, keep your hand, your palm flat. Here. Oh, and all dirty. Oh, what's that? You got to look on the ground. Look, there's another one right here. No, not that one. That's a rock. Give me this. You've got to find your own. All right. It's acorn season. Yeah, they're going to be out back. Well, which is like, yeah, okay, so no more throwing Katie veggies in the morning because now we can go get his acorns. Well, he'll always want his snack. I throw oranges this morning. He made into one, dropped it. He don't like oranges. Oh, no? Those sheep will get those. Yeah, everybody. Everybody has preferences. Well, acorns is a lot of work for a little reward, I would think, but they're jam-packed. Until they start falling. Like it's literally a carpet of acorns over here. Yeah. Yeah, and it's funny because that tree is in the pen, but it's in the corner of the pen. So you'll often find a lot of acorns out here and we'll come out and we'll, we'll go through them and pick them up. You can actually see. Yeah, there's quite a few that are, that are falling. Look at all them. Yeah, there's tons here. So you just go through and you pick them up. This is something that kids can do when they come and visit the farm. Find the acorns. There you go. There's a new game for the here. There you go. Welcome to Charlie. He doesn't have access to. Yeah. All right. That is it for this video. I'm going to be heading over to our son's place, Braxton. There's a bunch of work that has to be done, of course, before the winter season sets in. So I want to make sure that we go through a bunch of stuff over there. So I need to have a little, uh. So Mark doesn't freeze his tush. For me? You mean Braxton? Well, yeah. So, uh, just making sure that everything's done. He's a new homeowner. There's a bunch of work that needs to be done. So, uh, yeah, that's it. So I hope you enjoyed this video and our new 37 little ducklings. And we hope to see you next time here at the 10 acre woods. Take care and have a wonderful week.