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by Carolyn Y. Rickman

Note: Carolyn Rickman’s “Wiggles and Waggles” was first published in April 1984 in the now defunct Sunday magazine “Up-state.” Other articles have been printed in Westside News Inc. newspapers over the years.

One does not expect to learn about devo-tion, bravery and sacrifice from a pair of ducks. It was only by chance that I did.

After months of persuasive begging it was mid-summer when our daughter finally convinced her father she really needed a duck. A local farm was displaying a “Ducks for Sale” sign, so we stopped to look at “a duck.” Now, anyone knows one duck would be unbearably lonely, and that is where chance stepped in. Of all the ducklings to choose from, our daughter happened to select a male and a female - the making of my story.

Wiggles (because girls walk with a “wiggle”) and Waggles (because it sounded right with “Wiggles”) settled into their new surroundings with no apparent signs of trauma.

Contentedly they splashed in a baby’s plastic bathtub which substituted for a pond. Our family delighted in watching our little friends swim, chase bugs and grow.

Time passed quickly. Soon Wiggles and Waggles were learning to fly. Perhaps you, as I did, think ducks just simply fly. Not so! Wiggles and Waggles would start off in one corner of their paddock, waddle full-speed across the open expanse while frantically flagging previously-untested wings - to no avail. Dozens of repeated efforts resulted in quickly-aborted three-foot flights. There were no simple crash results; the capricious “beak landings” on the softened dirt ground would have soon stopped less-determined souls. Intrepidly, their efforts continued.

With breath held and muscles straining as if I might assist them off the ground, from my kitchen window I marked the progress of this dauntless duo. Their abil-ity and endurance slowly improved. I was ecstatic to witness the first glorious “flight of freedom” - over the fence and around the barn.

Landing was an entirely separate experi-ence. My concern for their safety gave way to mirth each time one experimented with landing on the antique plow in front of the barn. Occasionally, rather than under or over-shooting, one successfully landed on target, only to fall over frontwards as unjust reward for its success. Recouping from such an undignified landing brought darting side-ways glances confirming the embarrassment of such a dilemma. It was delightfully entertaining to watch; however, I’ve never attempted with two webbed feet to land on a plow bar.

With my loyal support (or in spite of it?) Wiggles and Waggles did learn to fly. They would take off from the barnlot to make a

large circle over our acreage, often startling me as two large “bombers” streaked past my kitchen window. I began to worry what might happen if they flew across the road into the path of a car. Since I have a great aversion to keeping animals chained or penned unnaturally, the common practice of clipping the wings of birds was a consid-eration, but only as a very last resort.

Unfortunately, the decision of how to keep them from being harmed in flight was made for us. Although the cause was uncertain, we assumed Wiggles failed to move from the path of a cow’s hoof, for in some way her own delicate foot was permanently injured. The weakened appendage turned flight landings into total disaster. After a few unsuccess-ful attempts, she never flew again. To our total amazement, neither did Waggles. To voluntarily relinquish the unspeakable freedom of flight has to be one of the great-est sacrifices for love I’ve ever seen.

When the nest of eggs was discovered in the barn, I had much difficulty resisting the desire to tell everyone I met that “we” were expecting. I checked the nest many times a day with feelings akin to that of expectant grandparents. Joy of joys. Six beautiful ducklings hatched and a new dimension was added to my education.

Waggles became the proud and fearless protector of his expanding family. I’ve ne-glected to say that the Muscovey drake is a less-than-beautiful bird. Waggles walked with a side-wise swagger that made him appear slightly inebriated. While his body swaggered side-ways, his homely head swayed from front to back in a most unusual contortion. All this was quite enough to startle the uninitiated viewer. Add to it a frantic flapping of wings and a strained hiss as he “attacked” anyone who got too close to his little family, and the attack victim was rendered helpless - due to a weakened condition brought about by uncontrollable laughter.

Those of us who knew Waggles’ weakness simply reached over the beady-eyed head to rub the back of his neck, reducing him to complete docility in an instant. Still, we gave him every credit and our respect for facing any possible intrusion so bravely. Neighboring cats and dogs were unable to rub the back of his neck; they did not fare quite so well in escaping his offense tactics. If there were medals awarded to father ducks for valiant defense of their families, Waggles would have worn his with proud justification.

Of the first six ducklings one was born with a birth defect. It could not walk, but propelled itself within a limited area by flapping its little wings and pushing with its feet. I was fascinated with the way Wiggles and Waggles handled this situation. Once Wiggles took the healthy siblings for a walk in the field to look for bugs (and whatever else ducklings enjoy doing) while Waggles stayed behind to care for the less-fortunate

baby. When he obviously thought Wiggles had been gone long enough Waggles would walk a ways out from the barn, stop and stretch as tall as he could manage, attempt-ing to see where the others might be. “Now, just where is that woman!” you could almost hear him muttering as he paced between the barn and the imaginary line he’d de-termined to be a safe distance for leaving his handicapped offspring. Finally, I could stand it no longer. Taking a large basket, I went to the field, gathered up the ducklings and brought them with Wiggles following, back to the barn so Waggles could rest in peace, knowing his whole family was safely reunited. (And you thought you worried about your family)!

Then tragedy struck. The little ones be-gan to die. They had appeared healthy; we could figure no reason for such calamity. My neighbor nurse (minus white uniform) used EE-DT (Emergency Eye-Dropper Treat-ment) while I made frantic calls to the vet and to friends whose families had raised fowl. Our beloved vet was out of town, but his sympathetic wife called people she knew who might have suggestions. We eventu-ally determined the culprit to be the mash for baby chickens which a local feed store employee had sold me. I had confessed to knowing nothing about ducklings and had trusted the clerk’s assurance that this was the right feed Too late we learned that mash clogs up the nostrils of ducklings causing them to suffocate - they must have pellets instead. Before getting the proper feed we lost four of the six, the scrappy little one with the birth defect included. Only two survived.

The next hatching was much larger. There were 15 eggs producing 15 ducklings, and all survived. The feed diagnosis had obviously been correct.

From the beginning it had bothered me that we had no proper pond for the ducks. The baby bathtub was small for Wiggles and Waggles; it takes little imagination to know it was hopeless for nineteen ducks. A

difficult decision had to be made. Our county parks system maintains a

working farm near us which is open to the public. One of its lovely attractions is a beautiful pond where ducks and geese enjoy life on the water and get lots of additional feed to keep them plump and content. Be-fore leaving on vacation we made the sad trip to Springdale Farm, 19 ducks in boxes in the station wagon.

Many memories returned as I watched them glide effortlessly on the water. My mind accepted the fact that they really belonged in this kind of setting, but my heart knew it was the end of something very special. So much of life is like that: we reach out, we learn, we grow and then we must accept the changes that reaching out, learning and growing bring. Understanding the process doesn’t lessen the hurt. The time for us to leave came much too soon. We were saying goodbye to our daughter’s ducks, but I was the one who cried all the way home.

The following summer we visited Spring-dale Farm. Our spirits sank when we failed to identify Wiggles or Waggles at the pond. Sadly we walked back to the barn and the fenced-in area nearby. In the midst of the turkeys, chickens and miscellaneous barnyard fowl swaggered Waggles like the proud patriarch that, indeed, he was. Our daughter heedlessly climbed the fence and, calling his name while he listened intently, went immediately to pick him up. That must have been an odd-appearing reunion as the three of us made an elaborate fuss over such an unsual-looking creature.

Saddened by Wiggles’ obvious absence, I again dried tears from my eyes as we prepared to leave.

Just then a young family walked up to the fence and, spotting Waggles, someone exclaimed, “What is that?”

Resisting the urge to tell them all about our Waggles, “It’s just a silly-looking old duck,” I said quietly. Not surprisingly, they believed me.

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