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    What type of duck do I have?

    That looks a lot like a Khaki Campbell to me.
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    Introducing ducklings with age difference

    We have two Khaki ducklings that we're hand raising (momma abandoned both) but they're about 3 weeks apart. The older duckling (a month old now) is like 3 or 4 times the size of the younger one (about a week old). We have them in clear plastic tubs (large enough for each to move about, with...
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    rescued duckling

    Thanks for your reply. We've been keeping the baby in the house and she seems pretty happy with the arrangement so far. She's very playful and loves to be held. We're totally smitten. Our mallard hen just hatched 8 babies the other day and we considered putting our rescue in with her brood...
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    Ducks with chickens

    We tried keeping ducks and chickens together but it turned into Bloods vs Crips, so we ended that experiment. I know people somehow manage to pull it off, but it got ugly for us.
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    rescued duckling

    We've got four Khaki females, one mallard female, and one mallard male. We've always heard that Khakis are terrible parents and that the females aren't likely to sit on their eggs, so we never expected to have any Khaki ducklings without incubation. But two of the Khaki females formed nests...
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    Duck Running at Me With Head Down

    We had 8 khakis for a while (now down to 6 adults + 1 duckling) and the only time I've ever seen the "head down, neck out" posture is when one duck is trying to protect something, be it a male protecting a female from other males or a female protecting her babies from us or a duck chasing off a...
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