That's aweome!
Ooh! You have Fulvous Whistling ducks? Where about do you live? I've been looking for some for ages. I was really wanting some good photos of Fulvous ducks for a project. Do you ever photograph yours?
You have quite a nice collection there!
Awesome info!
Do you federally mark your birds in some other way? What all do you keep? It's great to meet you! "The Phantom" (user on here) and now you are the only people besides me that I know of, who are active here and keep wild fowl!
What all breeds do you keep? I only have 2 wood duck...
If you use Mazuri food to start them instead of purina flockraiser (which can also work but is trickier to get them to eat) feed the Mazuri in water and dry for a while. They'll like it better in water, which is totally fine. Mine didn't start eating it dry until they were a month old. And even...
Live mealworms are pretty important to start them off with. I feed Purina Fockraiser as a maintenance feed to my two adults right now. For the first few days, cut up live leaworms (so they still flop around a bit after being cut) and toss those for them. They'll learn that they're good, and...
Ok. I also highly recommend feeding Mazuri Waterfowl Starter for the first couple weeks at least. It really gets them off to a good start, and it floats. Woodies are very difficult to get to eat food as babies. I have struggled with it a lot. They're nothing like domestics.
Oh that's so cool! You'll love them! They are very different from domestic ducks. Don't free range them, they'll have to be in a covered pen at all times. How will they be pinioned? Does he have the necessary permits to sell them?
And do you have a pic of the pen that they will be in?