The babies

We needed a day out yesterday and we found somebody in Birmingham who had two 12 week old Chocolate Indian Runners for sale, so off we went. I phoned her when we were on the M62 to let her know we would soon be there and she was so helpful with directions - follow the signs for Cadbury's world and you can't miss us.

Now, you can imagine how we felt hearing that we were going to the Cadbury's factory to get two Chocolate ducks!


It was with great relief that we went on a couple of hundred yards and found that there were read ducks and really cute. Even cuter were the one day old, three week old and seven week old ducklings that she had hatched.

We kept them in a large box overnight and introduced them to the others this morning. Ebony seems to have adopted them and they follow here everywhere much to the iritation of the other two who are a bit put out. Elena did a lot of quacking as she seem to have taken the role of guard duck so was warning everything else to keep away. They had no problems settling in and are actually almost fully grown but are certainly more lively and have larger apetites than the others.