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2April 21, 2017Homestead Animals by Erica

Duckling Cam!

We decided to bring in some fresh genetics for our micro flock of Ancona ducks.

Our three new baby ducklings (a male and two females, if the people who check these things are correct) arrived this morning at the local post office. They’d had a long, 2-and-a-half-day trip in a cardboard box from Cackle Hatchery to get to us, so I raced to pick them up and bring them back to the brooder box we’d set up.

Our babies are settling in well, eating and drinking and peeping. We set up a Nest camera (Nest is actually the brand name of the camera, that wasn’t just a lame pun) to live stream the duckling action, and I figured some of you guys might enjoy seeing them grow.

Streaming web-cam stuff is all new for us, but if all goes as planned you should be able to see a video of baby ducklings below:

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Hi! I'm Erica, the founder of NWEdible and the author of The Hands-On Home. I garden, keep chickens and ducks, homeschool my two kids and generally run around making messes on my one-third of an acre in suburban Seattle. Thanks for reading!

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  1. grace says

    April 21, 2017 at 11:56 am

    That. Is. Awesome. Better than April the Giraffe? Welcome back, E.

  2. Ravenna says

    April 21, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    Ga! They are the cutest things ever. 😀

  3. Julia says

    April 21, 2017 at 1:51 pm

    Hurray for baby ducks! Hurray for hearing from Erica!!

    Happy spring!

  4. Sara says

    April 21, 2017 at 1:59 pm

    The video is working and it’s adorable!

  5. Debbie says

    April 21, 2017 at 2:01 pm

    Quick, flip that one little duckling over!

  6. dr. Dave (Dave Zipp) says

    April 21, 2017 at 2:44 pm

    Welcome back. We missed you.

  7. Eric says

    April 21, 2017 at 2:53 pm

    It’s down! Not the feathery kind either. I was ready to watch some baby ducks, oh well.

    • Nick Strauss says

      April 21, 2017 at 3:16 pm

      Try again…it sometimes had a moment, particularly if you’re accessing on a mobile device for some reason.

      • Eric says

        April 21, 2017 at 3:25 pm

        Hmm, yeah – it loads on safari, but not on chrome (58) on linux or osx. Error is: VIDEOJS: ERROR: (CODE:4 MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED) No compatible source was found for this media.

        Huh, but then hitting reload a few times to try and see if I can diagnose further, it just loads fine. So maybe that’s all I needed to do.

        • Nick Strauss says

          April 21, 2017 at 3:32 pm

          Yup exactly the issue I’ve seen. On Windows and iOS too. I’m not sure if it’s client platform related but rather something with Nest’s backend/CDN. Thanks for persevering.

  8. Deon says

    April 21, 2017 at 7:16 pm

    Just in time for Earth Day live streaming baby ducks.

  9. Leslie says

    April 22, 2017 at 5:41 pm

    Cool! Do you know about the Hen Cam? https://hencam.com

  10. Kyle says

    April 24, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    Oh my gosh they are cute at night, nudging each other, trying to get all settled in.

  11. Kat says

    April 26, 2017 at 3:14 pm

    love love love love love!

  12. Molly says

    April 26, 2017 at 5:40 pm

    Aw, didn’t work for me but then neither did any of your older ‘printable’ pdf’s of gardening aids. I will try again and cross fingers for better luck. Glad that I did mange to download some of the pdf’s for larder storage lists, etc. Hope that all the others are not lost.

    • Erica says

      April 26, 2017 at 6:42 pm

      The company, dropbox, that hosts all those files , made a change to their system that changed the address of every file. I have to manually recode the location of the files in every place on my site where they appear to the new location before they will work again. My apologies for the inconvenience. It’s a “fix it” problem that’s on my list, but it’s slow going. :/

  13. GayLee says

    May 3, 2017 at 6:19 pm

    Duck duck go!

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