I have been taken to task by more than one person for the lack of duckling photos. So here are some ducklings!
Most of the photos have notes in Flickr — click through and mouse over the photo to see them.
This little girl arrived with her egg tooth still attached, originally uploaded by laurenipsum.
Cutes, originally uploaded by laurenipsum.
Handful of ducklings!, originally uploaded by laurenipsum.
Stubby winglets!, originally uploaded by laurenipsum.
OM NOM NOM DUCKLINGS, originally uploaded by laurenipsum.
They are very cute :-) About how old do you think? They look very much like adult ducks in their bills (beaks?) already.
I took these photos the day we bought them. The feed store special-ordered them for us, and I think the hatchery ships them overnight mail as soon as they hatch and are sexed. So, they are probably 24-48 hrs old? Their bills do get bigger of course, but this is the shape they will be when they are adults, too.
How cute! I especially like the last one. Made me laugh. So they’re very young hugh? Wow! Cool.