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Us and the ducks are newly moved to the St. Louis area, and their normal duck food is just not available in this area. (We've called all the stores and the manufacturer, and no dice; their normal preferred food just isn't available out here.) We need a good maintenance diet for our mallard...

I've dug around online, and scoured old posts here, but I haven't found any good answers yet. We've moved our ducks (and ourselves for that matter) from more rural sections of Massachusetts to urban St. Louis. But to make up for that, in their new home, the ducks have their pond inside their...

Subject says it all. Tomorrow I start moving myself and my ducks from Massachusetts to Missouri. Health certificates and import license are in hand. But, I expect that I will be stopping around the half way point, somewhere off of 71 or I70, near Columbus, Ohio. Anyone every have any...

Our blue and black Swedish girls, Moneypenny and Domino, are turning three this July. So, this is there 3rd season of egg laying. Season 1, they started late February, both close to each other in time. There'd be an egg, and maybe they'd skip a day, two tops, but then they got going and...

In the Spring, we'll be moving from more rural northern Massachusetts to more urban St. Louis. Going from ~5 acres of land (75% of which are woods) to 0.4 acres, pretty flat and manicured. Interestingly enough, our new neighborhood not only will allow us to house a duck (in the backyard, with...

Hello All- Well, it looks like sometime in the Spring we will be moving from our home in Massachusetts to the St. Louis area. That's about a two and a half day drive for us (a brief drive to a siblings house in New York, and then an ~9 hour drive and one overnight stay somewhere around...

Having started with Mallard drakes, we've had two Swedish hens for 15 months now. This is our first egg laying season. The girls started in mid-February, and despite the brutal heat of this summer, they've only skipped a few days here and there. By my count, they've each laid about 190 eggs...

First time lady duck owner (we've had mallard drakes for a few years now). Moneypenny, our Blue Swedish and a hair over a year old, has been laying an egg a day, with a one day exception long ago, since mid February. But, she seems to have stopped for two days now. She's still waggling her...

Now that Spring is finally here, we've moved our 3 ducks back to their outdoor pen, which is essentially a 10'x25' dog cage (with suitable chicken wire and cement paver reinforcements to keep predators out), and some cedar chicken coops on the inside for the girls to lay their eggs in, and for...

First time we've had female ducks, and our blue sweidsh, Moneypenney, has been laying for about two months now. In that time, she's laid a consistently sized egg (about 75 grams). Today for the first time, she laid an egg that was about half the size of all her previous ones. Is this normal?

We were caught a little off guard this morning, when we discovered that our 7 month old Blue Swedish, Monneypenny, laid her first egg yesterday. Given her age, the time of year, and the temperature (below freezing all day yesterday), this caught us by surprise. (Slight chance that it was her...

Just curious, but anyone out there with experience with their Swedish ducks flying? We have recently added a female Black Swedish and a female Blue Swedish to go along with our mallard drakes (the boys and girls are being kept in separate, but adjoining pens, to keep things a little calmer). As...

Just curious if anyone else has noticed anything like this. We have added a black swedish and blue swedish duck to our group of two mallard drakes. (Alas, used to be three mallard drakes, but a Fisher Cat got one of them.) When the mallards were young, and for months, they were super great...

Unfortunately the other day we lost our favorite male mallard, Blofeld, to a predator. He was already not getting along with his two mallard brothers, so we had him in a separate adjoining pen and coop. They were all OK with each other in the yard when they had room to run about, but when...

Anyone out there ever hear of anyone raising them in their backyard??? We're in Little Cayman right now, and just saw them at the Booby Pond. *Very* pretty (Google their image! Well worth it!) We're thinking these might be very difficult to raise in the North where we live, but maybe some of...

The other day when we let our duck, Scaramanga, out of his coop, he took off flying toward the front of the yard, then a minute later came flying back and landed in the pond, and did his usual bathing. When he got out, my wife noticed his chest was bleeding quite badly. She took a look, and a...

Not just a little, but like most of the time when he swims in our pond. Le Chiffre, one of our three mallard drakes, every time he hops in the pond if he's not bathing (or spinning in a circle trying to build a "nest" – he's done that in the pond, in the rocks outside of the pond, and in the...

Hello All- Now that Spring has Sprung, our three drakes have been moved to a big 10'x25' outdoor pen. Whereas we've predator-proofed it as much as we can with hardware cloth and stone pavers around the perimeter bottom and sides, there's no stopping the chipmunks. If there's a crack to...

Completely serious question. If so, does anyone have an economical solution to that? 2 of our 3 drakes have decided that, rather than hop in the lovely pond we built for them, they want to go wandering off deep into the woods and wetlands surrounding our yard. I kind of get that. Right...