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I LOVE my ducks! I have 5 Rouen, 5 Pekin and 4 Kahki. I have been hearing some "unusual quacking" coming from the pond over the last week and at night 2 of the Pekin females have had very muddy heads. This morning I saw the male Rouen mating with one of the Pekins. Is that normal? I guess I...

We have 5 Pekins and KC and 4 Rouens. We ONLY let them free range when we are home to watch out for them.

We have a few gopher turtles, but we have never seen snapping turtles. That would be sad... we thought we just wanted to see ducks in our pond, but we ended up loving these little creatures! My husband and I get up early every morning so we can take the ducks to the pond so we can watch them...

We had a slow start introducing our ducks to the pond. We were concerned that we would not be able to get them to come home, so we just took a few at a time. We discovered that ducks going into a new situation are like women when they go shopping... they all go to the bathroom (or the pond)...

My Pekins are the same age and they began molting last week... now the Rouens and the Kahki's are too. I thought they were older before they molted????

Thank you! I thought I was the only one that thought that my Pekins were like dumb blondes! We did the same thing in our pool, added steps to make it easier for them to get out..... They go beside the stairs, go to the other side of the pool... watch all of the other ducks walk calmly and...

Our ducks are now 5 weeks old, they started living in a rabbit pen, quickly followed by a baby pool, which lasted about 2 weeks before they found their way out. My husband in the meantime was building a wonderful duck coop which all of our friends call the duck condo. This week i went home to...

How old were your ducks when you started letting them out?

Sooooo.... we have adopted an entire flock of ducks, 14 in all (we had 16 but sadly 2 did not survive). My amazing husband saw my eyes light up when wild ducks would fly in to spend the day at our pond. So we did what I thought was a lot of research, but now I know it was not nearly enough! We...

Sooooo.... we have adopted an entire flock of ducks, 14 in all (we had 16 but sadly 2 did not survive). My amazing husband saw my eyes light up when wild ducks would fly in to spend the day at our pond. So we did what I thought was a lot of research, but now I know it was not nearly enough! I...

Thank you for the information, I tried the niacin and the Epsom salt suggestion and i am happy to report that my little duck, now named Squirt is now well and playing with the big ducks. She has adopted one of the Pekins in our flock as her mama and they hangout all the time!

Sooooo.... we have adopted an entire flock of ducks, 14 in all (we had 16 but sadly 2 did not survive). My amazing husband saw my eyes light up when wild ducks would fly in to spend the day at our pond. So we did what I thought was a lot of research, but now I know it was not nearly enough! I...

Thank you so much for your help ladt night. I soaked her little foot twice before I went to bed and again this morning. It looked a little better and I was able to get her to eat some this morning as well.

Thanks I really appreciate your help.

Yes they are on non medicated starter. I will add the niacin tomorrow for sure. I have him quarantined, should I add it to the others water as well?