just a little update - duck is still doing great! I slowly weened him off being around just me and put him outside every afternoon with the flock. Eventually my African geese
began to let him join them - now he totally thinks he's a goose LOL! They are totally a unit and go everywhere...
Just wondering if anyone has had experience with this? I have a black sexlink hen & and Runner duck who sat on an African goose egg together......and it hatched! Now they are co-parenting (today, gosling is 4 days old). The baby goes back and forth snuggling under each one, so cute! - they...
we have 2 African/Chinese geese - they free range during the day with the chickens and then share the coop with them at night. Everyone gets along just fine. I provide 2 kiddy pools for them so they can swim when they want. Right now they are 6 months old and are delightful! They only go...
This is little Anka - a Black Swedish that needed help hatching. I don't have pics of her parents, will have to take some! Daddy is a Blue Swedish and mom is a Black Swedish. I find that they are a very laid back breed
I do not recommend keeping them together - I just built a separate duck/goose run to separate mine. (we have chickens, ducks, geese). They all free range together during the day and all get along well.
I was not aware of how serious "imprinting" is in ducks until recently - we got our first...
Anka the Black Swedish duckling
hour 5
hour 12
1 hour after hatch
sorry - long post!
Recently my chicken hatched her eggs - she was sitting on chicken eggs and duck eggs. Of course the chicks hatched before the ducks did, so she got off all of the duck eggs but one. She stayed on...
by the way, LOVE the design - thinks it super cute. Will definitely want one. Should get a variety - it's very hard to find cute chicken t-shirts. When will they be available?