Mucky Ducks
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Mucky Ducks blog as been rather quiet for several months while we have been working on other projects.
Now is the time to announce that a new website www.muckyducksweb.co.uk is soon to be launched. We will be selling items that fit in with our passions for: ducks, chickens, beagles and bees.
We have sourced some lovely items; some new, some vintage and some handmade for your pleasure. We aim to be quirky and unusual, but always fun.
Mucky Ducks is becoming a brand with a website, Twitter page, Facebook page and of course this blog.
Soon we will be having competitions with prizes to encourage you to let your friends know about us. Keep watching this space...
You can find us at Facebook at
Or Twitter @Mucky_Ducks
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Saturday, 22 January 2011
Ginger's not a girl?
During last summer we were given a strange looking ginger coloured chicken who looked like a cross between a chicken and an ostrich. It had been badly beaten up by its siblings and was sadly lacking feathers on its back and head. We tried to integrate "Ginger" into our flock, and had to give up before serious injury was inflicted.
When we had the Lavender Pekin Bantams and the Aracuna, we decided to try Ginger in with them, as we thought they were so much smaller Ginger would thrive better. This arrangement worked very well.
We patiently waited for Ginger to start producing eggs as we were convinced she was a hen. Until a couple of weeks ago when we heard the unmistakable cock-a-doodle-do! Oh Ginger, you are a boy!! S/he is now called Roger.
When we had the Lavender Pekin Bantams and the Aracuna, we decided to try Ginger in with them, as we thought they were so much smaller Ginger would thrive better. This arrangement worked very well.
We patiently waited for Ginger to start producing eggs as we were convinced she was a hen. Until a couple of weeks ago when we heard the unmistakable cock-a-doodle-do! Oh Ginger, you are a boy!! S/he is now called Roger.
Monday, 13 December 2010
Welcome to Mucky Ducks
We are allotment duck and chicken keepers based on Wirral, Near Liverpool. We have been keeping our fluffy friends since March 2010, and are therefore quite new to... well, just about everything. It has been an eventful year and I hope to illustrate some of the experiences we have had so far, which have kept us on our toes, and very much entertained this year.
We took over someones allotment with their existing elderly Warrens and some sort of Silkie crosses (with what we have no idea!). We then went to the auction and bought five Marrans, two Call ducks and two Khaki Campbells.
As the year went on we increased our 'family' in several ways. We borrowed a very basic incubator and successfully hatched three Call Ducks. Buoyed by our success we bought an all singing all dancing incubator from ebay, and then we went into production.
Our neighbour had lost some of his chickens to the local fox population, and we hatched some Copper Marans for him. We also tried eggs from ebay and produced five lovely lemon millefleur sablepoot bantams, (who are just the sweetest birds I have ever encountered), three White Stars (to go with our two Amber Stars).
We were given some Lavender Pekin Bantam eggs by a neighbouring allotment holder, who hatched without any trouble, but the Lavender Araucana only managed to hatch one chick. She looked like Big Bird along side the Lavender Pekins, and they all huddled underneath her when you approched the brooder.
We were also given a trio of Indian Runner Ducks, although we had to pen them separetely from the other ducks as they were rather snooty and completely took over the duck house!
We have recently acquired three Muscovy ducks, who lay surprisingly small eggs considering their body weight. But real characters.
Our main concern at the moment is keeping their drinking water frm freezing over. It is a real battle, and although the last few days the weather has been a "little less cold" as the weathermen put it, but by next weekend we will be going down to below zero again. Deep joy!
We took over someones allotment with their existing elderly Warrens and some sort of Silkie crosses (with what we have no idea!). We then went to the auction and bought five Marrans, two Call ducks and two Khaki Campbells.
As the year went on we increased our 'family' in several ways. We borrowed a very basic incubator and successfully hatched three Call Ducks. Buoyed by our success we bought an all singing all dancing incubator from ebay, and then we went into production.
Our neighbour had lost some of his chickens to the local fox population, and we hatched some Copper Marans for him. We also tried eggs from ebay and produced five lovely lemon millefleur sablepoot bantams, (who are just the sweetest birds I have ever encountered), three White Stars (to go with our two Amber Stars).
We were given some Lavender Pekin Bantam eggs by a neighbouring allotment holder, who hatched without any trouble, but the Lavender Araucana only managed to hatch one chick. She looked like Big Bird along side the Lavender Pekins, and they all huddled underneath her when you approched the brooder.
We were also given a trio of Indian Runner Ducks, although we had to pen them separetely from the other ducks as they were rather snooty and completely took over the duck house!
We have recently acquired three Muscovy ducks, who lay surprisingly small eggs considering their body weight. But real characters.
Our main concern at the moment is keeping their drinking water frm freezing over. It is a real battle, and although the last few days the weather has been a "little less cold" as the weathermen put it, but by next weekend we will be going down to below zero again. Deep joy!
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