I have 3 ducks (2 Welsh Harlequins and 1 Silver Appleyard) in the Pacific Northwest where it rains a lot fall through spring, so it's soggy on the ground of their pen, but dry in their house.
I’m reading that a lot of people are liking pea gravel on the ground of their duck pens. For my 3 ducks, I’m currently using pine shavings, which is proving to be a little smelly and a fair amount of work. I was hoping I could deep litter method the ground of the pen, but it’s not composting...
I’m here as a novice pet backyard duck person. We have three ducks that we kept from the ten we hatched in August 2020. Two are Welsh Harlequins - Flower is female; Starlight we thought was female but their coloring hasn’t settled into the typical female coloring, suggesting they might be a...
Thank you! The parasites are part of what I am worried about - our ducks are our pets too ❤️. I really appreciate your perspective about the joy it brings the ducks (not to mention my son) to be fed earthworms! I’ll build in routine visits to our vet to check for parasites, and keep an eye on...
So my 5 yo son has discovered the joy of feeding all the earthworms he can find to our ducks. Needless to say, he’s now the ducks’ FAVORITE person, and it’s hilarious to watch the chasing him around for more earthworms! My question is, should I worry about the ducks eating TOO MANY earthworms?