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    How to introduce new foods to Mallards....I might have a fussy Duck!!!

    I read all over about all the yummy food people are giving their ducks to eat. My duck started eating hard boiled eggs when I first brought her home. She has eaten duck starter ever since. I have tried to introduce apple sauce, strawberries etc but she doesn't seem to like those... Any...
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    Clip or not to Clip...Wings on female Mallard

    Thank you for your reply SJUDD I do worry about her when she is gone....
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    Clip or not to Clip...Wings on female Mallard

    Hello all, I am having a moral battle with myself as to whether I should clip my wild/domesticated ducks wings. She has flown off before (4 days) and came home. Recently she flew off for an overnighter and came back with a sprain on her left leg. I have been keeping her inside the house to...
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    ducks camping?

    Of course I worry. I Love her to pieces. But she hasn't made me worry (too much) yet. She seems to know where "home" camp is. She even flies into the cabin we stay in from the lake. I am trying to let her be as free as she wants to be.
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    ducks camping?

    Hello, I take my female Mallard (8weeks) that is flying camping all the time. I have a safe place (huge dog kennel with smooth slide out tray floor) with hay and food/water and a pool. She sleeps in our trailer at night on the floor covered with towels. We go to the same place all the...
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    Hello just wanted to say thanks

    My vet (not avian) has met Lucy and is willing to treat her if needed. The Avian vet will take her away because she is a "wild Mallard" and it is illegal for me to "own" her. I don't own my duck. She lives with us and has all the freedom in the world. She is never confined (at night she...
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    Hello just wanted to say thanks

    I am also allowed to have up to 30 ducks in my Municipality so all is good there. I live on Three acres out of town. Ducks siblings consist of my Children (ages 14 and 13 years) three dogs, three cats and 4 horses. All co-exist beautifully!!!
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    Hello just wanted to say thanks

    Thanks everyone :) I would have to say that if anyone asked me last year if I would ever have a duck, I would have said they were crazy... lol On my way home with little duck, I googled what to feed her and what to expect. I didn't know however that ducks imprint so strongly. I was going...
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    Hello just wanted to say thanks

    Hi, I enjoy reading all of the posts about people's experiences with their chickens, ducks and geese. I acquired my duck at a golf course where my son was playing. I was outside having a smoke when a slightly intoxicated woman handed a tiny duckling to an employee in a golf cart. She said she...
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