Another month, another opportunity to learn something new. This time it was about the ducks. Although they were happy splashing around the plastic kiddie pool I bought them at CVS, it just didn't seem right that they spent the majority of their day sitting in pine shavings with the rabbits and chickens. Pine savings are dry, and every time I turned around it seemed the ducks were sitting in their water bowl, not just drinking from it. That's when it really dawned on me, that ducks are waterfowl...meaning they were designed for water, not land, not pine shavings nor kiddie pools, but lakes and ponds. So I made the decision to find them a pond in a gated community and then set them free, with the understanding that I would catch them and bring them home again if they seemed unhappy in their new environment. It took them one day to leave the safety of the bushes, but then after that, they never looked back! Now they swim around all day and look as happy as can be. They eat plants and snails and are essentially just being ducks. If we ever build a large enough pond, I will re-examine the idea of getting more. Until then.....it's great to see them free!