{"id":11061,"date":"2024-07-17T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T03:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11061"},"modified":"2024-07-18T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T19:52:54","slug":"nesting-instinct-duck-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11061","title":{"rendered":"Nesting Instinct &#8212; Duck Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our Pekin ducks has gone broody &#8212; but people have managed to sufficiently breed out brooding instinct to what I call &#8220;short attention span nesting&#8221;. She absolutely <em>needs<\/em> to sit on a nest. For about 20 minutes, then she&#8217;s ready for a swim in the pond or some chow. Which means we wouldn&#8217;t trust them to hatch eggs &#8212; we&#8217;ve got incubators for that. She has, however, figured out a reasonable solution: pinecones. No one takes them from her .She can even leave them out in the yard overnight and the marauding racoon will leave it alone. She built a very convincing nest in our pine trees (and was frantically trying to escape the fence to go sit on the nest) &#8230; so Anya relocated it into the duck yard and got the duck over to it. Now she&#8217;s got a nest\u00a0<em>inside<\/em> the fence to sit on for half an hour and doesn&#8217;t seem so compelled to escape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240717_103858a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240717_103858a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240717_103858a.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240717_103858a-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240717_103858a-750x1000.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our Pekin ducks has gone broody &#8212; but people have managed to sufficiently breed out brooding instinct to what I call &#8220;short attention span nesting&#8221;. She absolutely needs to sit on a nest. For about 20 minutes, then she&#8217;s ready for a swim in the pond or some chow. Which means we wouldn&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[1536,1446],"class_list":["post-11061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ducks","tag-duck","tag-ducks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11064,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061\/revisions\/11064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}