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    Protecting Pond Aerator

    I'm embarrassed to say that I have not 🤦‍♀️. I'm going to go and try that now.
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    Protecting Pond Aerator

    My ducks keep knocking over the Aerator pump in their new pond. They'll all swim as fast as they can from one end of the pond to the other and the wake they leave flips the pump over. The pump's instructions say to put it on a brick so it doesn't intake sludge from the bottom of the pond but...
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    2 Broody Girls

    So I have two broody ducks, each one has her own nest but they are both in the coop together. They went broody on the same day so I am assuming any fertilized eggs will hatch at the same time. I section off half of my run for my broody ducks but I don't have a way to split that up for two moms...
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    Problem Drake

    I'm planning on processing him during the next monsoon storm which should hopefully hit us next week. The problem with the duckling only started the day before yesterday. He didn't have any interest in it before then.
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    Problem Drake

    In my flock of 9 adults and 1 duckling I have 2 drakes; one is perfect and one is rude and destined for dinner. The problem Drake is rough with my girls, he's a feather puller, he bullies the girls during feeding time, and now he bullies the 7 week old duckling and it's mom excessively. He also...
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    Ceramic Eggs

    Thanks everyone for the input. I bought brown ceramic eggs because that's what was available to me locally and after using them for about 2 weeks I can confirm that they still work even though my ducks lay white and gray eggs. They always leave the ceramics on top of the real eggs but they're...
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    Ceramic Eggs

    My ducks are doing the thing where they lay their eggs everywhere and change up their nests weekly so I'm thinking about getting some ceramic eggs to encourage them to lay in a few designated areas instead of anywhere that they can dig a hole. I want to get brown or colored ceramic eggs instead...
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    Broody Question

    Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, I really appreciate it. Yeah, the Rouens were odd, we had raised male pekins as meat birds for years and I really wanted to try duck eggs so our neighbor gifted us the rouens but I think it may have been more of a gift to the neighbor for...
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    Broody Question

    I have Buffs and Cayugas that are almost a year old and I have some questions about duck broodiness. To preface, I had a pair of Rouens growing up but I don't think my experience with them was typical. The female hatched and drowned two large clutches of ducklings then drowned her drake. Her...
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    Gander Developing Aggression

    Update: Thank you everyone for the advice. I'm so sorry to disappoint but none of the methods I tried from this thread helped with this gander and his aggression increased and started rubbing off of the whole flock so they were all given VIP tickets to the freezer club. The gander was 45...
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    Duck Egg Dilemma

    So last week I was sick with a stomach bug and didn't have the energy to do anything more than feed and change waters. Up until then, my 4 Buffs were only laying an egg every other day and my 3 cayugas weren't laying at all so I figured it wouldn't be too bad when I finally got in the coop this...
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    Gander Developing Aggression

    Thank you for the detailed response. I agree that he's hormonal, my ducks are all hormonal right now and my two drakes have been squabbling and chasing each other around. I thought that I had been hands on with raising them, I haven't been away from them for more that 6 hours for their entire...
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    Gander Developing Aggression

    Thanks, I'll give it a try. Hopefully he's open to the idea of letting me continue to be top goose lol.
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    Gander Developing Aggression

    That was definitely the response the boot scoot seemed to elicit.
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    Gander Developing Aggression

    I like the pool noodle idea, the bright colours are probably hard for them to miss since their colour vision is super good. I have mine trained pretty well with my stick, I just hadn't been bringing it out because I didn't think it was something I needed out there with me every second of the...
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