We are renting and are not allowed to have pets. The advice we received from the SPCA in New Zealand was to let them go once they are fully feathered.
I don't want to add to the street ducks, we have a few lakes locally. I am planning on letting them go on a lake where people can't go duck...
The street has a dozen or so ducks that come up the street to beg for food. Its a long way from the creek they return to each day. Of the 6 mother ducks only one has had any surviving ducklings and she stayed away from the street till they could keep up.
All the other ducklings couldn't keep...
My wife and I have been rescuing stray ducklings and pretty much all of the questions we have had have been answered on these forums.
We now have 4 ducklings from 3 different mothers, the oldest two are a week and a half old, the newest two are a few days old.
We are having to keep the...