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Loved this story/ptoto from the Telegraph today

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 Irene818


    :) That was an amazing story presenting unconditional love between the hen mother and her adopted ducklings. I think people should follow their example.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 90 ✭✭windingo


    This is such a lovely story with a very cute picture!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 macmor


    Very Cute


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    How is she going to teach them to swim? Or will there be
    a generation of ducks that scratch around in the dirt all day!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭K_user


    Believe it or not, this is fairly common.

    Alot of people who keep chickens and ducks find that the ducks don't settle on their eggs. So its just easier to stick the eggs under the clucky chicken. The mother never notices the difference. Nor would she notice if you were to mix and match the eggs under her, so that her babies were all of different breeds of chicken.

    I've seen a chicken go plumb mental when her baby duckling got separated from the group.

    The average chicken maybe half daft, but they are very good mothers. :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭AnimalRights


    Going thru the pictures from that link and I love #12


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