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    mallards

    mallards
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    Bands for mallards?

    My mallards should be flying away any day now, but I might have time to stick bands on them (if I can catch them). Any safe & permanent bands available?
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    Mallards laying eggs

    OMFG. Are you telling me the eggs I eat from the grocery store COULD have a chick inside of them?? :barnie I thought they were just a monthly shedding of an unfertilized egg.
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    Mallards laying eggs

    I thought this duck was injured or something. I tore up my deck floorboards to get her(?) out. Man, was I wrong.
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    Mallards laying eggs

    But will there be a little duck fetus/zygote inside? I have reoccurring nightmares that I crack open a store bought egg for breakfast and find a beak.
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    Mallards laying eggs

    Minnesota. It’s a weird receipt thing. My grandpa did it, so that’s how I got hooked.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Tore down a raised garden bed that's shared between properties because it's too much for us to handle....got hundreds of established plants to move to new places!
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    What did you do in the garden today?

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    Mallards laying eggs

    Help- Every few years we get some mallards through the DNR to raise & release. My 7 current mallards are about 3 months old. Today my neighbor and I found FOUR eggs: two in her backyard, one in mine, and one in our actual (tiny) duckpond. We have never found duck eggs before. What should I...
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    Predator proofing

    They wander. At night they sleep in the pond. I don't want them penned in because I want them to fly south!
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    Can weasels climb upside down??

    they are free range, but I'm constructing a cave thing over the pond, near the house
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    Predator proofing

    I get half dozen free range mallard ducklings every couple of years-I live in the suburbs against a marsh so there is lots of wildlife. Potential Predators include: weasel, raccoon, owl, hawk, coyote One year a weasel got one (it's head was crushed and pulled through chicken wire), another...
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    Can weasels climb upside down??

    Dammit.
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    Can weasels climb upside down??

    true, but I read somewhere that they don't like water. I want to know this weasels specs. :)
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    How many Ducks does everyone have.

    I'm picking up 5, up to 7 within the week. :) Our others disappear in the fall.
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