I think my DUCK is BLIND 

Why don't ducks like reading directions? They prefer to wing it

Poor little Bean. She does seem to be blind now but when she was little and eating those green peas she looked like she could see them. She's in the best place possible for her at Gold Shaw Farm.

I'd definitely say she's blind. The way she turns her head side to side when following her flock looks like she's listening to where they're going.

Frank and Bean need their own book!

She might have developed cataracts. We had a sheep that had them and she could see some light and some movement, but she followed the herd through sound and scent. And would follow the fence lines of the pasture. Kind of like your duck is doing with the side of the hoop coop.

Ask Allison to examine the Bean's eyes. While Allison is not a vet, she is trained to assess eyes, and animal eyes are not really different from human eyes. The important thing is that you are giving your animals their best lives. Mud season has come early! Wellies and four-wheel-drive and appropriate truck tires are essential! Barn cats have the best personalities!

Here’s my advice from a blind person to a blind duck. The best thing that could be done is to move all of the different bowls and water dishes, and anything else that is on the floor to the sides of the area to prevent her from hitting them. it’s probably the best thing that could be done for bean. The other option is giving her a slightly smaller space so that she doesn’t lose track of her friends. You can probably try putting her in with the weird chickens to see if she gets along with them. Maybe attach some small bells to some of the ducks to help her pinpoint their location? Just kidding. Although it has been helpful for me in the past. I am not completely blind, but I am very visually impaired. Hope this helps.

Amazing how creatures manage to figure out their place in the world regardless of their situations.

12:06: the way Pablo immediately purred! What a sweet boy.

@GoldShawFarm I have two 15 year old blind ducks! They are both runners, named Victor and MingMei. Victor started going blind around 5 years old from cataracts. Vic currently can only sense shadows and movement. MingMei started having issues after 10 years old. She also is developing cataracts, but hers developed much slower. She can still see a decent amount, but she can get spooked if you don't tell her whats happening. My ducks are 100% indoor pets, and have a huge "Senior Living Center" I custom built for them and their dwindling sight. Our vet said that if she tried surgery, there's a high chance it wouldn't work anyways. With their old age, its easier to adjust life for them, keeping them happy for however long they decide to grace us with their presence.

It seems each and every animal has a special place in your heart. That is one of the reasons I enjoy your videos.

Abby's so cute! Jumping up on that bale of straw! Cuteness overload!!

Dogs are the best! How stinking cute Abby was with that straw bale!❤❤️

We haven't had any blind ducks, yet but we do have one we fear going blind. She was one of our first ducks and was bought just as a random mix. As we learned ore about ducks we sadly learned that her breed has a 80% chance of developing brain tumors, blindness being one of the possible first signs of brain damage. For the many years I have owned her she has thankfully never shown any signs of tumors, and is the best duck ever. She likes to be held and cuddled, she will come over and asked to be picked up. Sometimes we let her come in the house for bath time in the big tub, with warm water and all the peas she can eat. We try to give her the best life possible and she has paid us back more than we could ever imagine. All this being said, out of fear of her possibly going blind we have prepared for it all these years by ensuring her area is as free of "pokey" things as possible. Her coop has smooth walls and all wired areas are securely covered. She does have trouble walking, she came to us with a broken leg as a duckling and walks with a limp or duck swagger ( As my kids put it), so we have stone ramps going in and out of all the pools. It can be a slight hassle when changing and moving water but she is worth it. If you want to make things easier and safer for Bean when you release them to the fields, you might want to choose a few friends for her and give her a decent but restricted size yard, just so she doesn't wonder to far while following the other ducks. Best of luck, whatever you decide and thanks for the video.

I recommend you dont release the blind duck to the pasture with the other ducks. She might end up getting lost, getting cold, harassed by corvids (they can tell when a bird is abnormal and will absolutely go for them and it is not quick and painless) or even get easily snatched by a bird of prey or other small predators. Either leave her with the weird chickens or give her some duck company and keep her in an enclosure. Or just process her.

Toby just strutting out like "bro I am the quacken"

I’ve noticed that Abby’s fur is starting to thicken out like Toby Dog’s fur not quite the same but I definitely noticed it

I appreciate that during a busy farm day a farmer can take note of the different personalities of the creatures who live there. To me it is amazing that the flock doesn't pick on Bean for being different. Very evolved!😉 TIL always look up into the roost before walking under it.

I love the weird chickens.

Sweet Bean! She is doing her best to be a good little duck. Still think that if you dug trenches towards the springs and used the tractor to shovel most of the snow around the pens towards the trenches, then you would have a lot less mud in the warmer weather. Laying down some old hay would give a stable base to the ground and possibly allow for some grass to grow up for the birds to enjoy. Love The Pablo Barncat. Jenny, too.

OK, after the Lil Barn Cat book, you need to write the story of Frank and Bean ❤

Bean is precious and special ❤!

Maybe add some WINDCHIMES, of different pitches, around the area they roam outside. One near the hoop coop entrance. To help her navigate.

I appreciate the love you have for your animals!! You very easily could have decided to cull Beans, but you didnt!❤ She is able to find food, water and her flock. Thats all she needs❤❤oh and she needs the love of a compassionate human✔️

Aww poor Bean, my question is how long has she been blind? Happy to know you've decided to let her continue on at the farm🦆. Morgan, with Abby being a female, I'm thinking she will always be different from your sweetie Toby, she's just wired differently, you know like you and Allison,Lol. Always great to see you and the farm animals, it's one of those special moments in my day Morgan, and I really appreciate it. Thanks for taking us along, see you!🐓❤️👍

Very unique channel... Goldshaw has a blind duck wile most people that interact with ducks do it from a duck blind.

She’s blind. God love you for keeping her!💕💯 She’s in the perfect environment for her needs. I was born legally blind, and while I have some vision, I have an affinity towards all visually challenged beings. Blessings to yas🥰🙏🏻💪🏻

Abby is so happy with the straw beading❣.....Such FINE DOG'S AND THE POOR BLIND DUCK....Thanks Morgan 👍 Old F-4 2 Shoe🇺🇸

I grew up with a blind pheasant. The one thing my blind bird needed was to be in a coop that had sides. This way he would know the area really well and feel safe. My pheasant had a big out door enclosure in the summer and indoor one in the winter. I found when I did let him out of his enclosure, he had too much space. He didn't have that wall to run into, to know this is as far a he can go.

Can the blind duck be the subject of a book? It would be a cool story of overcoming problems & acceptance

@goldshawfarm I loved this story of Blind Bean. In the spring I had a black squirrel take up nesting in my back yard eaves trough. After watching it come and go, I realized it might be blind. When I watched closer, I saw that it had white eyes (I’ve never seen black squirrels with white eyes) so I assumed it was a genetic difference or it was blind. I subsequently named the squirrel “Stevie Wonder”. It was fascinating how it navigated around my yard and stayed close to my home. Interestingly, the other rather bossy and territorial squirrels gave it space. In the long run, I had to rehome Stevie as our condos have strict maintenance rules to repel rodents and other critters. The animal world is way more accepting and inclusive than we often think. 💛

In NH along the seacoast, we have snow-drop flowering bulbs, in unfurled bloom this week. Spring is seriously upon us.

I live in the tropics, and we're about to have a heat wave. That wouldn't be unusual a few weeks from now, but a late February heat wave isn't normal. At the same time, a few years ago we had a nice, cool winter that went on for weeks, and that's always a win in this part of the world.

I had a pet duck who was blind and she did just fine in a small space. She also had a drake who acted as her eyes (when he wasn't being chaotic AF), which allowed her to free range pretty well.

I love these farm updates, they're very heart warming and lovely to watch.

She really is our special little bean. ☺️❤

Yeah! Got my Weird Chicken moment of Zen today!! My day is complete!!🐔🐓

You have such a kindness and respect for your animals and that makes watching you so enjoyable. I always hated mud season in the spring up north. We just have sand to scatter everywhere in Florida.

Morgan - my brother and I watched that Creature From the Black Lagoon movie all the time as kids. We had a reel to reel and used host movie night every Friday! The other kids didn’t care that was the only movie we had! It was so freaking scary- we loved it!

I don't know, but the fact you can hold her so easily probably owes more to it's early handling.

Weird chickens remind me of Phillis Diller

The Misfits reference from no where. . Morgan you legend

I hope you keep her on the farm and DON"T have her killed!

Princess Abby on the straw mattress

Aww poor Bean!!

Frank n beans was a quote in the movie " something about Mary" right? They're making it a bed, will you stud out Toby? He's such a great guy..I'd love to see him have a little fun..

Blind duck????,, 😮😢 I'd be worried if she's eating enough and if she's being bullied. Some animal species I've noticed if they have any weakness or old age creeping on, tend to get bullied by the others

In Alaska we called it “break up” (mud season).

Cat are very territorial! If forced to share space, they can manage it, but even then they have their own claimed spots. My old barn cats were rarely together except at feeding time and when it got really cold and they shared the insulated, heated cat house out in the barn/garage. Otherwise they didn’t even look at each other.

When cats go from loving to bitting and taking a swing at you for no apparent reason it can be because they are overestimated. Each cat has their limit on what they can handle and if you watch them close enough you can usually see some signs before the act of aggression. Ears going slightly sideways or tail starts to twitch is the cats way of telling you "I've had enough". This is not fool-proof, I mean we are talking about cats but pay close attention the signs might be there.

I haven't seen your videos in so long. I'm subscribed but you're never in my feed. Im glad i thought about you. I loved your video's they are so positive and fun to watch.

12:10 that was a love bite!

OH MY what great therapy and best thing to start the day! LOVE your attentiveness to your animals💚💜💛💙

Oh poor Bean, I remember her as a baby, love watching Abby at the end making her bed platform.

Abby is always so eager for every little interaction and time you spend with her. She is such a beauty.

When pablo was on the hay, just to say that was a love bite, my cat does that 😊

We hatched a blind duck and when she was a chick she just ran in circles. I figured out she was blind for the same reasons: didn’t react to much around her. But she lived a long life!! A drake we adopted fell in love with her and often hung out with her while the others went far off to explore. Unfortunately last year an owl killed both of them. Her name was Rocket and her boyfriend was Castle. She was great; really sassy and she always loved when you put her in the pool 🥺

I just love ducks ❤

im pretty sure i heard somewhere that some cats like to nibble when they are happy, not sure if its true tho. definitely look into it, maybe thats what pablo does

Love watching your videos Morgan ....❤

She will do great I had a blind dog he played soccer with the kids by sound ran into his share of walls too❤

@goldshawfarm please keep the Blind Bean!

I love ducks, I've never had one though! Bean is a cute duck, I don't know if she should go outside. Abby was so funny, she is so sweet!

I`ll keep asking, ad infinitum Please release the 20min uncut Farmdog grooming/brushing video!

Would be difficult to be any animal that is blind.

I live in Alaska and we have a big mud season - but we call it breakup. I spent Christmas vacation regularly in Barnet Center, near Peacham in the 1970s and 1980s (my teens and 20s.) What amazes me looking at the winter videos is the climate change - in my time northern Vermont in late December was always totally snowed in and frozen, and usually around minus 5-15 degrees F. In part I have loved Alaska because it reminded me of those days in Vermont. Morgan, I always love the farm and your videos, its a blast from my past!!

I had a farm in south Woodbury VT that this brings me back to. I live in Belmont Massachusetts now.

Just was doing some reading about blind ducks. It is recommmended that one keep an eye on their weight and make sure they are not being picked on.

Everyone loves fresh bedding!

I LOVED how that chicken just walked onto the pellets and just kicked it around...🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for sharing, Morgan.

I love the songs you use here and there. Do you have a spotify playlist of your favorites to share?

Not me sat here going it's really been 2 years since bean was born, my dog Mason likes to make a nest too, usually hops onto our bed and throws the blankets back, sometimes the rug and then other times he just digs his bed♥

My pet duck, who was also a Khaki, had cataracts. It happens when they live long enough!

That Abby nest was legendary hahaha 😂

She sees you spreading the hay and so she does it too thinking she's helping

She's navigating by sounds; notice how she turns her head when running and locating the sounds of the flock.

Love the special duck !

maybe you could push a bunch of that snow to the pond, with that awesome tractor...........!?

i just love all the different bird storys about the special ones with great storys ~ i recall one of mr farmers videos talking about possibly writing a book of bird short storys ~ i think ~ this could be a name for it : field & coop guide book to birds of gold shaw farm : origin storys & illustrated for identification

Aww!! Bean is blind! My puppers nickname was Bean . I had to put her down a few weeks ago. Miss her sadly. My hearth thumped a lil when you said this ducks name was bean 💞and she is also blind. My heart!! ❤

Frank and Bean!

This was a pleasant video after a difficult day. Thanks

Thank Goodness she has you!!!!

I have a duck that was attacked by a raccoon. The raccoon ripped her eyes out. She is three years old and follows the other 11 ducks around the yard. She sometimes needs help when she gets stuck somewhere but she eats well and swims. Lays eggs too.

I had a blind chicken, she was fine. Also had a blind starling (cataracts), changed her diet and they cleared up.

I absolutely love your dogs!!

So you're saying Toby and Abby are Joe Friday and Pep Streebeck from Dragnet.

Like the ice cleats on your boots. Blind or not still a nice duck

Bean is in the best place for her !

Morgan you are amazing with your animals 😊

Always makes my day when you put out a new video..

Isn't Bean at risk to hurt herself especially when she starts living outside the hoop coop?

I've worked in the veterinary field for 15+ yrs. She was sighted when she was a baby by those videos u included. This developed either suddenly or over time.

I read somewhere that dogs circle around seven times before they lie down and it's got something to do with flattening down the grass to make a bed. Hmmm..

Maybe the other weird chickens can't fly that high. Make them a lower roost? They will be forever grateful.

Untitled Goose Game added co-op a few years ago. If you have a Switch and a means to capture footage from it, I think you and Alison playing that game together would be a lot of fun, for both of you and for your viewers, and maybe attract some new audience. "Goose Farmer Plays Untitled Goose Game" sounds like a very amusing video title.

Does Allison think Bean was blind when she used to cuddle them? Pablo being pet: "Niiiice. Niiiice. NOPE!"*scratch/bite*

It's so awesome how is she overcame. And it seems like all the other birds don't bother her just because she can't see. My sister had a dog that went blind and her cats would help her dog navigate the house and prevent the dog from running into the wall. The cats would go between the wall and the dog and kind of nudge him along to guide him

My oldest duck, Blue, is 20 years old. She lost her sight about 5 years ago. She’s not allowed to free range anymore so, she stays locked in her own run. Her daughter, Patches, stays in the run with her. I talk to Blue when I walk in to feed them, she hears me and comes over to eat and drink. She hears where I pour the food and water. Patches guides her, as well. They are so sweet together ❤