I have this Cayuga Roan duck, I was hoping to give her a break from laying and send her into molt so I got her to brood on a nest of golf balls. It has been five weeks and I'm thinking of getting her off the nest. What is the best strategy to stop a duck from brooding?
Yes, they didn't have much trouble once I made the improvements. The feeder has a bolt that holds it open for the early stage of training and then half open and then you can finally leave it closed once they are used to it.
Since ducks don't feed with their feet like chickens they may have some difficulty in learning how to properly use the Grandpa's feeder. Obviously, you need to remove the scratch guard plate. But an additional problem is that ducks don't like to get as close to the feeder as chickens do, so they...
