Lenny the drake ended up spending 4 nights in jail. He was released to rejoin the flock today, and so far has not bothered the gander once. Hopefully the jail system works for him and he will get to stay on the farm with his attitude in check. I'm going to have to build more jail cells. (his...
Lenny- Large Muscovy drake Unknown age: joined farm november 2020 has 3 muscovy hens (2 currently brooding) 1 mystory duck (pretty sure mulard, pretty sure lays eggs, attempted to rape lenny the drake)
Mundungus- Sebastopol gander 1 year old, joined farm june 2020 - has 1 female goose and flock...
I flap my arms and go into angry goose pose when I have eagles eyeing my birds. They move on if i'm out there. I try to make my presence in the yard known. Haven't lost one to an eagle yet, but am likely to eventually. I have quite a few big pekins, 2 geese, and a few smaller barnyard mix ducks...
I found out the problem!!!! She matured early and was first to flirt! Head bobs chasing drake. Walks just fine if she doesn't have a cutie by her. They all flirt and head bob around now.
what about using something like....
https://www.chewy.com/iris-6-panel-plastic-exercise-dog/dp/231870
Its a small dog play pen, tall enough for ducks to not hop over, and short enough for chickens to hop over. Can add their dust bath and water and keep it from being mud and mud.
I will get some tomorrow. I got a 4x4x5' dog kennel for my 21st birthday, and over the last 12 years it has been an iguana cage, a cockatiel cage, a catio, an art show display wall, back to a catio, and now a chicken cage inside a coop
The coop is a now enclosed open air hog confinement...
Is it normal for a duck to really really waddle? Ok so i know I have a duck that isn't exactly normal. I have 1 out of 30 that walks different. She acts like a cartoon character. Her legs are under her, she isn't bigger or smaller than the rest, she isn't slower than the others, often is one of...
I have a chicken coop in my duck coop. It's fenced off with a door that has a plywood gate about eye high to a pekin, maybe a little less. squeezed between a cement block and the fence door way. The chickens have a dust bath, nest box, roost, water, and feed with straw bedding that stays dry, I...
Thats awesome. I was hoping the blue eye and the brown eye meant girl and boy. As with the research i did it looks like the blue is x recessive and more likely in boys. All of the ganders at the whole swap meet had blue eyes and that was interesting. I am so excited. I was loving getting our...
We picked up 2 goslings at a swap meet and the lady said she lost track of whos eggs were whos. So they could be pilgrim or sebastopol. She also had 3 roman tuffed ganders but said they came with her farm and they cant be theirs.
The yellow has blue eyes and the other has brown the yellow is...
Thanks! Yes i do, i am new to ducks, and we have a large building and a large area so we went with more ducks than less, 20 in one group, a dozen in the other. They're so big its hard to forget they're so young. This is the second one we've lost, the first died on the second or third day we had...
I feel terrible. I think I killed one of my ducklings. Or my actions did rather.
19 ducklings hatch date may 6. Starting to feather, but still yellowish around the head, and wings aren't fully feathered. pekins.
We've been caught in a heat spell in iowa, it went from winter to summer in a...
No ducks yet.
So we have a section of our yard that butts up against the field that our flock of ducks will free range in during the day. I know the fields get treated with insecticide and herbicide and there's nothing i can do about that. It's not our field. Is this a huge threat to my ducks...