A new baby


How does a baby duck end up wondering the streets of Langley? We can only take a guess at her story. But this one has a happy ending. I saw this instagram post and said Kindred would give her a home. I contacted the shelter and had to wait a couple of days because she was on a “stray hold.” We had to wait to see if her owner claimed her.

She wasn’t claimed, which is very common for farm animals found as a stray. Christine Mayworm and I went to pick her up the next day. This happened just two days after Benny passed away. We just keep on keeping on at Kindred because there are so many animals in need. We will take time to collectively grieve when the time is right.
We have decided to call her Cricket because she is so small and does chatter a lot.
Cricket was in quarantine and is now being slowly integrated into her new bird family. Integrating a new bird to our bird flock can be challenging but we’ve learned a lot over the years. Plus we know our birds so well. We know WHO will be a problem 🙂
The problem child will be Butter Beans. He is a very large male duck and is in his hormonal prime. He doesn’t know it, but he is too heavy to pair up with a little baby. Our animal care volunteers, as always, will come up a solution to keep Cricket safe.

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