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Had to take ducklings away from their mum and feeling SO bad! 😭
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Had to take ducklings away from their mum and feeling SO bad! 😭
Thanks guys, that does make me feel better. ❤️ I was thinking that once they’re old enough (9-10 weeks?) we could have a pen set up inside the yard, covered with mesh so they could be ‘with’ the flock, without the flock being able to get to them, until they are completely used to each other and... -
Had to take ducklings away from their mum and feeling SO bad! 😭
Our 3 ducks hatched 5 ducklings 3 days ago (bit of a surprise, we saw them sitting on nests but had thought a rescue duck we took in was female and we had all hens - turned out it was a drake and the eggs were fertilized). This morning I discovered one of the ducklings was missing. We have rats... -
18 week old SLW
Is this a rooster? It’s 18 weeks old and I’m assuming the long feathers at the back are saddle feathers and the greenish tail mean rooster. 🙈 Not crowing yet- Jen1979
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My drakes almost drowned one of my girls - not sure what to do next
Thanks @Amiga that's great advice. I'll keep the boys in the enclosure during the day and let the girls free-range as normal. Then at night I'll lock the boys in a separate area and put the girls away where they usually sleep. I'd like to rotate them so the boys can have free-range time one... -
My drakes almost drowned one of my girls - not sure what to do next
Thanks @Amiga Do you mean separate the drakes together away from the girls? I think I could make that work short term at least. Hopefully the drakes will be ok together for now (and not fight) since they seem to have become best buddies. @StephMagee That's why I've tried to have a ratio... -
My drakes almost drowned one of my girls - not sure what to do next
We have 7 ducks - 2 male pekin x runners, 3 female pekin x runners and 2 female cayugas. Yesterday when I got home from work and went to put the ducks away, I noticed Cleo, one of our cayuga girls was missing. I found her in the duck pool, completely water logged, half drowned, missing 2/3... -
Drakes....not exactly fighting...but should I intervene?
Thanks @Virus :) Thankfully they haven't had any bad fights yet. The older drake doesn't actually seem at all interested in fighting him. It seems like it's starting to tone down over the last couple of days. At first he was chasing him and pulling his feather out, then it became just... -
Drakes....not exactly fighting...but should I intervene?
We have 2 drakes (in with 5 females), one is the father (Duck Norris) of the other (Quackmire). Norris is a year old and Quack is just over 5 months old. They're the same size. We originally had Norris and 3 of the females. We then hatched Quack and got him 2 females of his own. Usually the... -
Dirty Duck Thread - Add your own pics!
Thanks for the video tip @gentila! I've never seen that before :D She is actually an Indian Runner x Pekin :) She is a gorgeous girl. This is her too: -
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We laid some new lawn on the weekend and had some spare so we've put it down in the backyard. We emptied the ducks big paddling pool onto it (we thought their filthy water would be quite good for the grass!) and they had THE BEST TIME EVER. I only got a picture of them discovering the lawn, so... -
Going to try putting new ducks together this weekend - freaking out a little!
Well, it seems to be going just fine! Our older drake has chased the younger away a couple of times but only for a couple of seconds and hasn't actually made contact with him or tried to fight. They seem to be hanging out as little separate groups some of the time and all together other times... -
Which plants will your ducks not eat? :)
Thanks so much @jennifleur and @needlessjunk ! That gives me some great ideas for what to plant too. I'm going to head to the nursery with my "outsmart the ducks" list! -
Which plants will your ducks not eat? :)
Thank you so much @LondonMcKNight ! and your raised garden beds are stunning! (My husband is going to want to build some exactly the same as those when I show him these pictures, I can tell! We have some raised garden beds at the moment, but we might need to make them higher, or put the... -
Which plants will your ducks not eat? :)
Ok, so we've completely resigned ourselves to the fact that we can plant anything we like in the front garden (where ducks don't go), we have made a big fenced area in the back garden for "no ducks allowed vegetables", but the rest of the quite large yard where the ducks free range is looking... -
We think our Drake just killed our first Duckling :-(
I'm so sorry for your loss :( I experienced something similar only a few months ago. We think two of our female ducks squabbled over a nest and killed the duckling that had hatched. It was heartbreaking. Our one duckling that we did get to keep we are only introducing to the rest of the... -
Going to try putting new ducks together this weekend - freaking out a little!
Thank you @sourland :) fantastic, if it doesn't seem to be going well introducing them all we'll separate our drake and try again. I have a feeling one of the new girls and Coco might have an issue, they seem none too pleased with each other through their fence, but hopefully by the weekend... -
Dirty Duck Thread - Add your own pics!
Aww he is concentrating so hard on that mud hole! haha! I love trying to figure out what their sounds mean. My boy has a noise that I'm pretty sure means "Did you bring any peas out? No, seriously, DO YOU HAVE ANY PEAS? Don't walk away from me! OMG I don't think she's got any peas... -
Going to try putting new ducks together this weekend - freaking out a little!
At the moment we have ducks separated into 3 sections: 1) Male Duck Norris and his 2 girls Marshmallow & Princess free-ranging in the backyard (all 8 months old) 2) Female Coco (8 months old) and her male "baby" Quackmire (9 weeks old) in the duck enclosure (at night they go into a smaller...