obfuscobble:

thedemonsurfer:

gokuma:

roddaprime:

daysofstorm:

dalmonite:

“These are my children.”

“They look nothing li—”

“LOOK HOW BEAUTIFUL THEY ARE.”

for some reason I really like that she’s called Hilda.

This happened on my grandmothers farm when my mom was little,

baby ducks act a lot like baby chickens so in the beginning it wasn’t so bad

the main problem is that baby ducks  LOVE water, but baby chickens get very very dead from it,

so you can imagine the mother hens surprise and horror the first time they go by the farm pond and ALL THE BABIES RUN TO THE WATER AND JUMP IN

my grandmother had to come out of the house to investigate all the noise the hen was making

The mother hen was clucking and screeching in distress and running circles around the pond while the duckies were having the time of their lives.

This happened a few more times before Momma hen was like FUCK IT YOU WANNA SWIM SEE WHAT I CARE , and would sit a distance away watching them in the pond.

if the ducks ever abandoned any eggs my grandmother would always put it under that particular hens nest cause from then on she always knew how to deal with her “water loving” delinquent children

BEST ADOPTED MUM

This isn’t actually all that rare! 

A broody chicken (one that’s switched into mom mode) really only wants to sit on eggs and raise babies. She doesn’t always care what kind of eggs they are, she doesn’t care what the babies look like. Eggs, then babies. 

Which is pretty great if you’ve got some eggs you want to hatch but their breed doesn’t go broody very well, as you can just pop them under a hen that is broody and she’ll take care of it. Have a hen that’s broody but you don’t want to hatch your own eggs? You can order day old chicks from a hatchery and slip them under her at night and by morning she’ll probably decide they’re hers, sure whatever there were eggs and now babies (this doesn’t have a 100% success rate). And, as the anecdote suggests, you can convince a broody hen to raise

ducklings

quail

turkeys

and, uh. Kittens 8′) 

!!!

wanderingnelipot:

piratedllama-art:

Quarters only, please [x]

(done in procreate)

suricata-uwu:

spicymochi:

it’s for you!

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