August 23, 2014
12:27pm
This is so crazy! Just to think all this time we thought we knew what we had just a few days shy of 5 months old. My oldest son said "hey mom, 'Chill is a male (our duck) and told us the signs. Myself, and the two youngest were shaking our heads in sarcastic disbelief. Debating the whole time on how she's not. He gave us the signs of the beak and feet, that don't have nothing to do with the gender and the tail is nowhere being curled at the end. Lol! So one by one we go check out Chill and I was like okay who put gel on the tail because it happened t be curled. That was not there yesterday (we pay very close attention to our ducks). Addition to this which really wasn't anything until now, Lizzy was sharing with me two days ago that Chill feathers were turning gray. However, there's one sign of knowing that we had a Mallard drake all this time but it never register to us when we were learning about our ducks previously...we were just knowing that a curled feather at the end of tail was the determining factor of a drake but now we know not in its entirely. Our duck name Chill is a drake. i know this is weird for me to say because of previous post about our two ducks but this bring an excitement to our home this morning.
Duck 101
Drakes are male
Hens are female
Mallard ducks do fly
Indian Runners can run but cannot fly no more than 2ft off the ground...we learned that the hard way. I knew I was cautious of our Indian runner duck for some reason. :( Read more than you normally would about any animal you keep as a pet.
October 21, 2014
SMH ducks did it again...I am glad that I was able to have my parent conference over the phone. My little man is doing excellent...above grade level in all subjects and all O's. I love his teacher because she's old school and I mean old school. She praised me for my good works on my children mannerism and job on keeping them on the straight and narrow. I try hard and a lot on being respectful to others, respect thier elders, be grateful for what you have even though you don't think its enough but it's just right, don't look at others as if they're better than you inspite the may think they are because they have more and trust me I know the difference between having things you want and not having things you want. If you're okay with having the things that you need
