Many folks say that you shouldn't let baby ducks into water until they're at least a month old, lest they catch cold and/or drown. But here at webmeadow, we throw caution to the wind and let the babies in on the first sunny day we have. In this case, that day was a Thursday.
They took to the water like, well... ducks in the water. They jump in, they jump out; a great time is had by all. I'd like you to notice Bruce's butt in the bottom-right of that picture. Bruce's butt seems to be in every picture I take, because he is SO FREAKING BIG. At 7 days old, he weighed in at 13.5oz. That's a 4x increase over his Day 3 weight of 3.4oz .
Sometimes they like to wash in the water, but mostly they like to careen around like maniacs.
(And in case you are concerned: they have a nice warm place to dry off, so they don't catch cold. And because we have a long tradition of using snow toys for watering holes, their pool is a plastic sled that has a nice slope for entrance and exit out of the water. So no drowning, either. Splashing, though -- there's a bunch of that.)
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Fred
YaaaAh!!! Watch out for maniac duck butt! It's coming to get you!They are all incredibly cute. The growth rate is pretty impressive, too. Can you imagine adding your birth weight to your body weight each day for a week? I don't think I can fit that much in my mouth, even if I was eating concrete porridge.