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    This may sound strange, but has anyone ever grown a garden for their ducks??

    I'm thinking about doing exactly that this year--growing food for the ducks in a designated section of the garden. Last year I planted some buckwheat (mostly as a cover crop to suppress weed growth, in an odd area with bare soil) and just when I was thinking, "hey, maybe I could harvest...
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    Introducing younger ducklings to older ducklings

    Probably the approach I used was excessively cautious. Some of mine were pretty territorial/cliquey and I felt like I had to go slower, but others' ducklings might be different. Maybe the 1-week approach that you used with chickens would be ok too--I don't know about chickens. With feeding, if...
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    Introducing younger ducklings to older ducklings

    I would have the same inclination that you have to start by combining the 5-weeks group with the 2-weeks group. But I would definitely go slowly, giving them some supervised times to be together briefly, but having some fencing etc to separate them, so they can see each other all the time but...
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    Introducing younger ducklings to older ducklings

    I'm happy to say that the two groups of ducklings (2-week age difference) are now one big happy, unified flock. Miss Lydia, thanks for the advice. Here are all the details (ages and timeline approximate): Ages (2.5 weeks & a few days old): Nighttime: Separated. Older ducklings in outdoor...
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    Introducing younger ducklings to older ducklings

    I have a handful of ducklings age 1 week, and a larger group of ducklings age 3 weeks. I have been keeping them as 2 separated groups. At what age can the little ones safely join the older ones?
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    Experiences with ducks and streams

    Sometimes on a rare day they return to land (or the pen) by themselves, but I never count on it. Waterfowl just love water. If there is a day when I know that we won't be able to herd them out of the stream before dusk (due our schedule or the water being too high for us to safely walk in it)...
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    Solved Can people stop responding to 10 year old threads?

    I've just read a number of places that you're supposed to go read the old posts on topic before posting a question. Or places where someone posts a question and is only referred to an older post that is sort of on the topic, but maybe not exactly. I haven't started any new threads. And...
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    Ducks at night: how much protection?

    The "Keep" area for my large adult ducks has 6-foot high chicken wire the whole way around it, with a door that is similarly high. We always lock them in the "keep" before it gets dark and don't let them out again until daylight. Some days (when we go away) they stay in the keep all day. There...
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    Solved Can people stop responding to 10 year old threads?

    As a newbie, I feel like I'm not allowed to start a new thread. That I'm supposed to dig up old post that were vaguely on-topic and add a comment/question there. If the old posts were archived, then I would feel free to start a new thread.
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    Re-homing 2 Drakes from a 2 Drake & 2 Duck ratio?

    The drakes seem to be pecking a lot at the female ducks' necks, and occasionally the drakes peck at each others' necks or flap their wings at each other, but more so that the drakes are pursuing the female ducks. I've been observing this behavior for a couple weeks. Whenever the flock of 4...
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    Re-homing 2 Drakes from a 2 Drake & 2 Duck ratio?

    Is 2 ducks and 1 drake a good mix? Or would it be better just to have 2 ducks alone? This past fall we bought 4 ducklings, straight run, which turned out 2 male and 2 female. They all got along marvelously all winter, but now with spring in the air, the drakes are getting aggressive. Today...
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