So what do you do with an empty-nest?

We just bought 9 Moscovy ducks (6 babies and 3 hens) and built a duck palace for them. We’ll probably lose a few to predators. Might even get duck eggs. So you might say we have refilled our nest.

They are very cute. We have had two semi-wild Muscovies (one is my avatar) who stay with us some of the time (they like it when we feed them) but they also go down-river from us and I think get even more attention.

My only fear other than predators is that we travel a fair bit. We will need to hire someone to come by twice a day to a) feed them; and b) shut them in at night in the palace and let them out in the AM. But, maybe they will find other places that are more hospitable, though the babies will learn that this is their home.

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