This is a new #featheredfriday because I just read the blog about the new featheredfriday community. And I can’t have our ducks not in that community. Read all about it here in this blog:

https://steemit.com/hive-106444/@melinda010100/feathered-friends-blue-jays

Some must knows about ducks especially for you:

Some ducks can fly up to 450 kilometers per day. Ours don’t do more than swim in the neighbourhood. The duckling sound of a duck has no echo, but they do have a build in alarm. Every day at seven the make found and want breakfast. The duck is related to the goose and the swan. We have two swans here to but I think they are to dangerous with the kids. Ducks can reach between 2 and 12 years old depending on the duck species. That yo the great relief of little D . I didn’t tell him that during the day they cross the street 😬

Ducks' feet have no nerves or veins. This means that a duck never has cold feet, even when swimming in ice cold water. Duck feathers are waterproof, the duck produces an oil close to the tail which the duck spreads over its feathers. This insulation also makes it easier for the duck to keep warm.

Wikikids :
Ducks have always lived in the wild until the Chinese domesticated them a few hundred years ago. But how does a duck ensure that his legs stay cold? For this, it has and many other water birds have a specially built-in heat exchanger. The cold blood of duck legs flows back through the veins towards the heart. On the other hand, warm, oxygen-rich blood flows from the heart towards the paws. Along the way, these two streams meet in the legs, the pipes run parallel and are closely intertwined. The cold blood, flowing up through veins, cools the blood flowing to the legs. On the other hand, the warm blood from the heart ensures that the blood flowing to the heart from the legs is heated. A heat exchanger pur sang, literally, that ensures that the body temperature of a duck is 40C and that of its legs just above freezing.
#source: wikikids

Incidentally, it is no problem for ducks to swim in icy water. They have a gland that releases a greasy substance. Ducks spread it with their beaks all over their bodies. That fat, that oil, ensures that the ducks are watertight and therefore have no cold. In short, not too much pity for those "cold-cold" ducks on the ice, they can handle the cold well. That does not mean that they cannot get into trouble. To burn the oven inside, food is of course needed. And that ms where little D comes in hahaha

The photos are mine, the ducks are ours and the knowledge is from experience and wikikids

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