Yeah!!!! She finally hatched her eggs. Poor thing sat there forever it seems like. We'd check on her every time we went out and finally we saw her walking across the pasture with her little fuzzy duckies. Vince checked the nest and found 14 hatched out eggs and 6 that didn't hatch. They are sooooo cute. As she walks them across the grass she slides her beak in the grass showing them how to find food. Then when she got to the fence she kept gesturing with her beak for them to go forward. They all went through then she climbed through. When the mama ducks swim with their babies they will swim out in front then turn around and swim backward almost like they are counting heads and making sure everyone is there. It's really fascinating to watch how they "teach" their babies and take care for them. Eewe then a day or so later we went out to the farm and there was a big old black snake with his head down in her nesting hole. Ucky!!!! He slithered away but not before Vince gave him a backache with a timber. Gross!!!! Yea I know black snakes are good snakes but a snake is a snake and I will just kill the mice some other way.
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