As many of you already know, I love ducks. Yesterday morning, the ducks arrived!

The big feller on the left is a gosling.

We ordered 15 runner ducks and 3 Embden geese. We will see if I also love geese...

The goslings are playing well with the duckies and if anyone is getting picked on, it's the goslings. The goslings are slower and more awkward than the duckies. They do fit nicely in my hand and are pretty calm about being held. The duckies peep more, until I tuck them under my chin.

Already a much bigger goose after one day.

We lost one duckling in transit and one chick today due to a previously undetected ant problem. We are tackling the ants now. Sigh. In the past two years we kept the new chicks in plastic buckets. Those presented problems. Now keeping them on a dirt floor presents different problems. Will update later as to our chick status.