Two Muscovy ducklings having just been hatched under another hen, they were offered, as a consolation for her disappointment, to the Dorking; and such was her desire for maternity that she instantly adopted them.
A fortnight later other ducks were hatched, and as it seemed a pity to waste the time of the banished hen with two ducklings only, they were sent for home.
After the ducklings grew up, and were no longer willing to submit to her canine style of nursing, she again became the mother of another litter.
A countryman in the Highlands, to whose farmyard an eagle had paid several unwelcome visits, carrying off ducklings and chickens, determined to have his revenge.
Just once I want to see that mother duck take her ducklings down to the water.
Every year there was a mother duck herding a line of ducklings down the shore and into the water.
These ducklings were ten weeks old and dressed on an average eleven pounds per pair.
For instance, from his latest: "We have some six thousand ducklings out now, confined in yards with wire netting eighteen inches high.
We saw hundreds of the ducklings running about in shallow bamboo baskets, waiting to be transferred to the banks of the river.
It was eight o'clock before I sat down, but Antoinette's ducklings were delicious and brought consolation for the upheaval of the day.
But the young ducklings that are roasting for the dinner of Monsieur?
This walk enables the ducklings to get out if the water gets so low that they cannot scramble from its surface over the sides of the pan or tub.
One of the New England duck growers who had invented the best of the machines used before this time was already growing ducklings on quite a large scale.
After the ducklings are three or four weeks old, they may be given as much freedom as old ducks.
Many who have not had experience in handling them neglect this and feel very bad when some of their ducklings are drowned.
Why, he pinched one of old mother Muddle-dab's ducklings to death with his great black nails.
On August 22, the female and two ducklings of the first family were shot.
Although the season was far advanced and the snows of autumn were already falling, ducklings of the sizes specified above were still unable to fly and the females were still molting the essential flight feathers.
The weak ones get in with the strong and are in danger of being trampled; two May goslings that look almost full-grown have run into a house with a brood of ducklings a week old.
We have a new brood of seventeen ducklingsjust hatched this afternoon.
The day was Friday; Phoebe's day to go to Buffington with eggs and chickens and rabbits; her day to solicit orders for ducklings and goslings.
We have a great many young families, both ducklings and chicks, but we have no duck mothers at present.
As often happens with nurses, Yollande loved the ducklings as her own children, and without worrying about their shape or plumage, so different from her own, she showered upon them proofs of the tenderest affection.
The ducklings on the contrary, urged on by their instinct, madly enjoyed it and rushed pell-mell into the water.
Upon this she put the ducklings one by one, and covered the whole with feathers; then closing the lid, she carried the basket to the stable where the air was always nice and warm.
The ducklings waddled as fast as they could lay their flat feet to the ground, as soon as they caught sight of the pond.
Soon after this, a magpie came down to tell all the fowls in the yard that one of Snowdrop's ducklings had been eaten by a rat, and that a second had been stolen by a hawk.
But she has never tried to turn ducklings into chicks again.
The raft with the woman And ducklings upon it Is tossing and heaving.
Upon the raft, near her, A duck and some ducklings Are sleeping together.
Kanti put another question: 'Have those ducklings of yours grown up?
Kalidos has forgotten to sing how Siva's Mountain-Queen herself sometimes has come to the young Ganges, with just such ducklings in her breast.
Looking up, he saw a village maiden, coming to the water's edge, with two white ducklings clasped to her breast.
The pativas are under the care of the original inhabitants, to whom exclusively the superintendence of the ducklings seems to be committed.
It is not uncommon to see six or eight hundred ducklings all of the same age.
Rats are a perfect curse to young ducks, and they will carry them off even when they are half-grown, occasionally killing two or three ducklings in a single night without even taking the trouble to remove them.
When about ten days old the ducklings require more room to roam about in, and unless you give it them they will begin to go back.
The ducklings are now fairly started on their journey, and before following them I propose to describe the method to be adopted in the case of ducks sitting on their own eggs.
The ducklingsmust be put on some grass, as otherwise the hens will scratch for food, and generally damage one or two of their brood.
A golden rule is to give your ducklings all they will eat during the first seven or eight weeks, and after that make them hunt for their natural food, giving them just sufficient to keep them fairly fat and prevent them from straying.
Forestry practices that leave stubs near water while clearing away most ground litter and slash that might hinder ducklings from reaching water are to be encouraged.
Dragonfly and damselfly larvae are important in the diet of ducklings in all areas (Erskine 1971).
Ducklings are considered a luxury, but which, I think, is more to be attributed to their scarcity than flavor.
This is served with ducklingsand waterfowl: those that like may add cayenne and mustard.
Capons, poulards, green geese, or ducklings may also be served in a pie by proceeding as directed for fowls, but managing the size of the pie, and seasoning in proportion.
The next day the mother duck took her ducklings to the pond.
The pond where the duck and ducklings lived had a little waterfall at one end, and then it became a little stream, and ran over pebbles under a bridge, and wandered away into the fields with a border of forget-me-nots.
These the farmer's wife showed Little Me had pretty pale green shells, instead of white or brown like the hens' eggs, and Mrs. White promised to show the children some baby chickens and ducklings the next day.
They were feeling rather as the hen who has reared ducklings when they first take to water.
Seasonable from November to February; ducklings from April to August.
Seasonable from November to February; ducklings from May to August.
Ducklings from April to August; ducks from November to February.
Ducklings are trussed and roasted in the same manner, and served with the same sauces and accompaniments.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ducklings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
