I have made a decision in my life at 53 and for serving this country for 21 years in two branches of the armed forces. I am not paying taxes or registering anything ever again. I will no longer ask permission from my elected officials. They will seek my permission, and I shall gain my authority from God.

@mattblackledge3685

Ай бұрын

That is very stupid and not following God either.

@farmerswifeco8537

Ай бұрын

@@mattblackledge3685 let me know how putting your faith in the government works out for you! 🤣

@mandmcustom

Ай бұрын

Keep the rest of us posted, we want to learn!

@Rich_Mixture

8 күн бұрын

too bad the rest of the nation can't think like this

I laughed out loud when you pulled off the lid and found a ducky swimming! What a joy God's creatures are!

Oooh...thx for telling us about angel wing

Pure genius waterer my friend.

@valdez3602

3 жыл бұрын

OMG

@lightinthedark9984

3 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Fata's Farm I just subed to your channel. I love watching animals, They give such unconditional love.

We had ducklings hatched out by a broody bantam under a bush in the garden when I was a kid, she managed to cover 8 duck eggs and hatch them all, they soon outgrew her but she was always their mom

@floridagirl386

Жыл бұрын

Were they still close?

@evielknievel4972

Ай бұрын

Ours just did the same. Under a bush. She kept them in there. Wold not let anyone near.

@Rudelherz

6 күн бұрын

❤ lovely

Kevin: They’re no longer here on the homestead, they’re heading to freezer camp instead...” Me 😆

@valarietolle8583

3 жыл бұрын

Kevin; they all should learn their manners and take their turn! Me👍👊🏻😜❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@gingersnapjudy

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@brianeisenga882

3 жыл бұрын

I don't wanna go to camp.

@gingersnapjudy

3 жыл бұрын

@@brianeisenga882 😳

@sewingstoryprojects6178

3 жыл бұрын

I know...I am still chuckling over that!!!

Never knew about the momma ducks waterproofing their babies! Always learn something from your videos.

Good morning from Switzerland 🇨🇭

That little duck at the end wants you as his duck daddy 👨😍😂

@lindajoe9862

3 жыл бұрын

That's what was thinking 😉😁

@scrapykat3028

3 жыл бұрын

My first thot was “He’s got a new friend!” Second thot... “Daddy!”

@Rudelherz

6 күн бұрын

No he wants to be taken back to his Mama, where he belongs! 😢

Kevin, you really are a softy for those little ducklings❣️

@susanvansluyters4470

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that very same thing.

Good morning from Michigan!

I kept backing the video up when Kevin was mocking the baby ducks in the water... hilarious 😂🤣😂!!

Hi from Country Victoria Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

@moniquem783

3 жыл бұрын

Hi from Geelong, soon to be country Vic too! 👋

Good morning from NC.

Happy Duckling Day Kevin🦆and Happy Mother's Day to Sarah 💐🌹🌸🌻. God bless your happy homestead! 🌺🌿🌺🌿🌺😊😷

Kevin has his box of quackers 🦆🦆 . Loved the demonstration of the duck in the water bottle 🤣. I was gonna say that is a mighty big hole for a baby duck

Best show on you tube. Kevin's baby duck imitation was hilarious..

Good morning,from Jamaica 🇯🇲💛

@orscrub3161

3 жыл бұрын

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Jamaica!!

@martytrout6252

3 жыл бұрын

Good morning from California.

@annar6430

3 жыл бұрын

@@orscrub3161 Me too 💚🐠

@annar6430

3 жыл бұрын

@@martytrout6252 Morning Marty🐓🌊

Thanks Kevin for the laugh this morning. Even my wife in the other room laughed at your example of the duckling head in the water. God Bless.

@wordvendor1

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! 🤣

You all have the best homestead on KZread. I applaud your methods and admire your outcomes. 👏

Good MORNING cute duckling

I shared this with a friend. The Autism Academy here in Az is starting a “farm” for adults with special needs.

@adiane-vd2kn

3 жыл бұрын

What a fantastic idea, I love that!

@leemartin9156

3 жыл бұрын

NH had a state school that raised most of their own food and I think many of the clients worked the farm while living there. Rumor has it that people were thinking it was "mean to make those poor people work like that!". I was thinking that I'd rather be doing work and feeling worthwhile rather thanliving in a building doing who knows what to pass the time. I think it finally shut down - probably a land grab by someone managing the town....

@leemartin9156

3 жыл бұрын

@The Aussie Family Exactly. Plus the pride of their work. Thank you for doing what you do! It is Mothers Day here in USA, so a shout out to Moms all over the world!♥🌄

@jackiemcgregor7460

3 жыл бұрын

@@leemartin9156 one of the young men who will be part of this has come to my house and pulled weeds for me. I paid him for his amazing work.

@Debbie-henri

4 күн бұрын

There is a farm for special needs people near me, at Beeswing. Raises food organically.

My parents had exactly that mix of ducks - plus a few Indian Runners - so you are bringing back happy memories for me! Harley, their Harlequin drake, lived to 13 years in age! They then got Call ducks - like miniature Pekins ... which were the sweetest little girls ever! They only had to hear my voice when I visited and they'd come running - they knew I'd help them search for slugs and snails in the garden they were only allowed in under close supervision! I swear all the ducks used to belch hard before they slept the night of the slug hunt, as they were so full!

Hope you turn those ducklings out into the orchard once they are big enough. They do miracles of pest control especially around apple trees.

@gelwood99

3 жыл бұрын

I have been saying the same thing, chickens in the moat and ducks in the orchard.

@queilyyenner6399

3 жыл бұрын

I am sorry to ask but what is around apple 🍎 trees?

@kathleenconte3360

3 жыл бұрын

Around apple trees the ducks pick up the coddling moths before they can do damage to apples. Ducks are very good foregers for other pests too. If you have a apple orchard less worms in fruit with ducks. Some pesticides are not good and is better to use ducks instead of spraying

@Debbie-henri

4 күн бұрын

I'm hoping to raise ducklings shortly because I have a big slug and snail problem here, been told Indian Runners are best for this. Also thinking about Khakis too.

Two things that I find amazing. First, the Cornish crosses being ready after only 7 or 8 weeks I think you said, and second, you processing all of them in a day. You folks are hard workers.

I have tears! Your explanation of the waterers had me laughing I had to rewind to catch what you were saying. SO funny. Excited to watch the ducks again. You picked out some pretty ones. 😃

Good morning from Virginia and GOD BLESS!

Good morning from New York. I love baby ducklings. I live on a lake and get to see Mama and babies every spring. It is so amazing to see them swim in formation even at such a young age.

Such precious baby ducklings. I knew nothing about raising baby ducks. Now I do!! Thank you! ♥️❣️🙏🏼❣️♥️

@AmysBabies_AnimalRehabber.

10 ай бұрын

THEY EAT THEM! 😢

Bbbbrrrrrbbbbbrrrr! The funniest illustration ever, Kevin! Made my morning, fer shur! Thanks for the humor!! And good luck with the ducklings!! JDB

@tristaperkins7112

3 жыл бұрын

OMG thank you so much for that! Watching it, I was trying to figure out just exactly how to spell that!! Made my morning as well, as I head out to build a hoop coop for my Murray McMurray shipment this week.

Good Morning from Georgia. God Bless Ya'll....Love the Ducklings.

He's in there swimmin 🤣

Happy duck day! So much fun to see them bouncing everywhere! Kind of cute lunatics when they think another one is getting something they arent! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I laughed out loud when you were describing ducklings' behavior at a chick waterer!

@swen6797

3 жыл бұрын

They never change. The adults are even crazier. I never fail to smile and chuckle at them.

Good Morning from Cabool! Love the new ducklings!

What a cute and informational video. I love ducklings. The adult ducks look beautiful. Anxious to watch them grow up.

What about getting a baby gosling to grow up with them to serve as a guardian?

I remember when I found you guys on youtube looking for garden info but fell in love with the ducks every morning in your videos haha. I miss seeing them in your morning routines like you used to show us.

@lesleydickson7746

3 жыл бұрын

I miss the ducks too. Im sorry some of them have died. They seem like great characters.

Ducks are soo funny and interesting! Thank you for sharing!

So cute! Happy ducklings 🐥 🐥

The duck that immediately found a way into the water to swim cracked me up lol Cuteness overload!

That's a great idea for the waterer! I bet you could place a strip of tape across the holes, inside and out, to make the holes smaller temporarily. But I can also see the benefit in having multiple sizes on hand if you're planning to raise more ducklings in the future.

Great setup! Also, they need b vitamins added to their water or brewers yeast which has B vitamins. It keeps their legs from becoming deformed. I also use an extra large plastic dog dish flipped upside down for their waterer. The underside lip contains the water. I love your idea for a waterers and will try that , too. God bless!🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️

@moments955

10 ай бұрын

Another word more commonly used is niacin :-) Places you get ducks from tend to not inform you on extras that may be needed unless you ask :-)

I can’t believe how much you learned and know since I started watching you.

That was a good duck drinking/splashing imitation. 👍

You don't have to make a new watering bin/tub thing. Just secure popsicle sticks partially over the holes. When the ducks get bigger, you can remove the sticks to accommodate their growing size. Also, if you cut an access port in the top, you can refill it without having to remove the lid.

Wild mama ducks will actually groom feather oil onto their chicks, that way they float!

Love the waterer idea and will be trying it today. We have, are and will continue to hatch about 8 varieties of ducklings and geese for the next few months. I love my ducks but the duck muck is hideous lol You did not mention Rye Neck which may help folks also. We feed all our birds non medicated feed and the medicated will actually cause the Rye Neck in ducks and geese. Very important info. We are also in SW MO so thank you neighbor, from our homestead, great info n the waterer!

@Kathleen67.

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, for the info. I am looking for a dirt cheap place, would you know of anything for sale or rent. I need a place for at least ten years that I can have my chickens, cats, and dogs. We would like to get goats and ducks too. We make our own homemade organic chicken and chic feed, always problems with processed/manufactured food.

Good morning from Bayport New York

Its funny when I think of white ducks, I always think of the movie "Friendly Persuasion" starring Dorothy McGuire and Gary Cooper and their pet duck!

@jamjar5716

3 жыл бұрын

Deb, I really love that movie!

@lc9009

3 жыл бұрын

Great movie and I haven't thought of it in so long.

baby ducks like to play in the water. We started by putting them in the bath tub for a swim. They loved it. They would dive under the water they were so funny

Good idea, tell Sarah HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY.

LOVE those baby ducks.....great waterer.

You can tell drakes from ducks even at an earlier stage than the curly tail on the drake's back. The drakes make a soft, raspy noise, whereas the ducks (the females, no wonder!) make the loud quaking noises.

@lc9009

3 жыл бұрын

Johan, totally unnecessary sexist comment. C'mon bro, do better.

@johanodendaal6938

3 жыл бұрын

@@lc9009, are you a drake or a duck? That might explain your response.

I'm so excited to see this video! We have new Ducklings coming the first week of June, and Welsh Harlequin are one of the breeds we ordered! We also ordered the Silver Appleyard, Blue & Black Runner Ducks, and a pair of White Chinese Geese! I have fallen in LOVE with Ducks and Geese! Thank you for sharing this video! I really needed a new setup for the Ducks! I love watching them , never a dull moment! I can hear them now! Quacking and Honking! Thanks again, GOD bless

@kimprescott835

3 жыл бұрын

Gold Shaw Farm has lots of great duck info too.

@ritamccartt-kordon283

3 жыл бұрын

@@kimprescott835 YES they do, I watch them too! I love Toby Dog! Another great channel!

So stinkin' cute.

Very smart..... Soooo cute already an olimpic swimmer... LOL

How exciting to see the new ducklings! Can’t wait to watch them grow up and develop. Thanks for sharing, Kevin. God bless.

Mornin from Michigan ducks are cool

I always give brewers yeast the first couple months for the extra niacin as well.

Good morning from VA

So cute

Love watching the ducks!

Good morning!

Exciting getting Ducklings! Yay!! 🐥

My ducks are loving the cicada hatch.

So cute little ducklings!

Ducks are so 😍 cute

Excellent video. I learned soooo much. Blessings, 😊💕🙏🏻🇨🇦

We have a rescue goose with angel wing on both wings. She can spread her wings, but they don’t fold flat. The game bird feed has higher niacin level than the 18% chick starter. If you add niacin (brewer’s yeast) to the feed, they do fine on the chick starter, and you don’t risk angel wing. That’s what we use and our ducks are happy and healthy and able to walk. Some people might ask why not give the ducks a nipple waterer. The bbrrrbbbrrrbbbrrr of the ducklings is how they wash out their nostrils. If they don’t have a way to wash out their nose, they get sick fast. Your ducklings look fantastic! I look forward to watching them grow!

I'm sitting here in front of the hoop coop that I built from your video

I have had issues with Niacin deficiency in Pekins. One thing I like to add to their food specfically is a bit of Brewer's yeast.

@partinsheritagehomestead4981

3 жыл бұрын

Tractor supply sells niacin feed for ducks, goods choice if you can't find any. They needed the niacin for leg strength

I’ve gotten at least 100 comments on our videos that we need to watch your duck video. So HERE I AM ☺️ Awesome! For sure gonna try all this out so I don’t loose my mind over the messy ducks.

I love the sounds of the chirping duckies!

@Rudelherz

6 күн бұрын

They are crying for their Mama😢😢😢😢

That's a cute box of quackers.

So interesting learning about ducks....and SO-O-O-O fun! Grow well, baby ducks!

I give my ducklings “flock raiser” it’s multi purpose for chickens and ducks

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!

Duck impersonation was hysterical...😂😂😂🦆🦆🦆

Love the ducks💕🦆🦆💕

Valuable information.

Smaller waterer holes sounds like a job for DUCK tape 🤣 . That Abe Lincoln was way ahead of his time .

What a great, adorable video ❤️ I love your channel so much that I went through and made my own personal playlist of all of my favorite videos of your channel/homestead (370 videos so far) 😁 I definitely will be adding this one to that list!! One thing you didn't go over is that medicated food can kill them. The only reason I know this is because you taught me 👍 Thank you so much for sharing God bless

@Rudelherz

6 күн бұрын

Adorable? They need their mother. She was robbed of her own babies. What's adorable about that. I could cry. This is animals abuse, shipping in a box. Of course they die. Why is this even allowed. They need water and he makes the holes smaller...after taking them away so they can't get their natural oil protection from Mama....😢😢😢😢😢

I wished I watched this a month ago lol. The water trick would have helped, A-LOT 😂🤣

OH!!! Love them! We used to have ducks many years ago...every nite we came home from work, one or two were gone...coyotes, hawks, whatever...no feathers, and eventually, no more ducks...:(...we have two nice ponds here now...but we have a lot of wildlife too...skunks, possums, raccoons, and birds of prey and coyotes...so hate losing them...we gave up on ducks...we did just get 6 turkey poults and they will be 2 weeks old on Mother's Day tomorrow...Narragansett breed...hoping we can successfully raise them.

Still waiting for that new greenhouse a comin👍👩‍🌾☕️

All I got to say is I’m so excited

Congratulations Grace God bless you

So excited so very excited

Apparently, according to many youtubers who do Kratky hydroponics, if you run the drill in reverse when cutting the hole the edges are smoother and you don’t need to clean them up. Love the waterer. Great idea!

@Kathleen67.

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea, thanks!

Ducklings are adorable. It's awesome you guys are adding more ducks to your homestead. Like you, we started in the city. We lived near a pond. The city had torn out all the vegetation around the pond so the mama ducks would come up in the neighborhood to nest. Our flower beds were filled with nests every year. We were excited to learn more about them and that is when the homesteading bug bit us. Over a period of time we became known as the "duck house". When a duckling got separated from its mom after a storm or something, people would ring our doorbell and drop them off. We built a coop in the back yard and would raise them and keep them safe until they were old enough to take down to the pond. The last two we raised didn't want to leave - a male pekin and a female cayuga. She went broody so we let her nest. Eighteen ducklings later we knew it was time to put that for sale sign out and find some property. 😂 We also had four muscovies that had taken up residence in our back yard. We've been here just under a year and haven't looked back. Our muscovy population is now at 26 and counting and we still have our Pekin/Cayuga family. We've added some guineas and chickens. Looking to add some turkeys and geese this next year. Thanks to your series on rabbits we are also adding them to the homestead soon as well. May God continue to bless your ever growing homestead! We love your videos.

Aww they are so cute! I found out a few years ago that I’m allergic to eggs. I’ve read recently that people allergic to chicken eggs may be able to eat duck eggs, so I’m hoping to find someone with ducks in my area that I could buy some eggs from to try!

Good morning! That’s a great idea for the ducks! We can’t really have ducks here on our farm. But that is pretty cool! Have a great weekend!

@chris3m98

3 жыл бұрын

Gray, why can't you have ducks??

@TheDealDepot

3 жыл бұрын

@@chris3m98 we really don’t have a water source nearby and I know they love to be around water so I wouldn’t want to get them right now and them not be happy! But maybe one day! Have a great weekend!

@chris3m98

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDealDepot Thanks for the reply! Never thought of it😣 Stay safe. 😷

@ajalicea1091

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDealDepot Yes Ducks do love their water. Pekins, muscovies, and such ducks will do well without a pond or a creek. We purchase a little kids pool that is stiff sided, not the blow-up kind and they have a blast with it.

@TheDealDepot

3 жыл бұрын

@@ajalicea1091 great idea!

Kids and I laughed pretty good when you were talking about the ducklings running laps and blowing bubbles in the water! May God continue to bless you all!

@Rudelherz

6 күн бұрын

God will never bless ppl abusing animals😢

They are so very cute.

Great visual of a duckling drinking water! LOL! Made me smile! Love those cute little ducks!

Kevin is hilarious talking about the ducking and there water 🤣🤣🤣🤣

How much did your chicken weigh when you put them in the freezer? 50 chickens..that’s great! Will the ducks be meat birds also?

@wordvendor1

3 жыл бұрын

They have a GREAT series of raising and butchering their Cornish Cross chicks. You should watch it all the way through! It tells all of that in detail.

@stokely418

3 жыл бұрын

@@wordvendor1 I have watched it. It’s very impressive. What I wanted to know is how much did this batch of chickens weigh. I was also curious if the ducks will be raised for meat too.

@Kathleen67.

2 жыл бұрын

@@stokely418 When we butchered ours they were about 3.5 pounds, but we butchered roosters of different breads.

******************CONGRATS ON THE NEWEST MEMBERS ON THE HOMESTEAD,,,the ducklings are adorable!!!!!!!!****************************

"The others should learn some manners and wait their turn," This cracked me up for some reason. :)