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Mink attack
Hi Not been on in a long while. Been having a pretty horrible 6 months. Then today I decided to put the ducks away a bit early as very tired only to come upon a mink attacking them all. None were dead but all 5 badly hurt, he even tried to attack me. Horrible horrible experience, and... -
hi! more ducks acquired!
hi! I had to sell my drake today, he was just too big and um.. frisky any unfortunatly one of my runner duck has died. so he had to go. i think he was the reason my runners havent laid since early spring. my aylesbury has laid an egg a day since christmas! i wanted more ducks having only 2 now... -
is my runner sick or broody......
hi all. not posted in a while and have done a search but canot find answers! I have a aylesbury or pekin (i dunno!) duck. amazing. amazing. amazing. she has layed between 6 and 7 eggs every weeks since 21 december! 6 months. actually the past 2 months its been an egg every day. i have 2... -
introducing a new duck????????????
ok, so you may have seen that i am getting a cool new duck house.... when i got my 2 pekins and 2 runners the man had a 3rd runner...as i had only gone for 3 ducks and came home with 4, i couldnt take a 5th. but....it has bothered me that i left the poor girl there.....he has lots of other duck... -
what about this for a duck house? pic...
i am looking at getting one of these, what do you think? it is basically a big dog kennel but i think its perfect for my wack wacks...... its 8 feet long, 4 feet deep and 4 feet high.... do you think it would do? i hate that they are locked up so many hours now that winter is here, and their... -
ducks off grass?
do they need to be on grass? it will be frozen solid pretty soon anyway.......and i was thinking of moving them to an unused dog run beside the house for the winter, that way they have 10 foot fence that means i dont have to lock them in at night, or at least not so early. they put themselves in... -
hmmm. more questions!
Reading all the fab topics on here gives me soooo much valuable info, but also lets me with some questions!! 1-molt. What? When? Why? How often? Who!!!!! 2- ye'all r depressing me talking about all your eggs I have no eggs, and the common feeling here (ireland) is ducks dont lay again until... -
food and water at night????
Since having the ducks I have put a little food and water in their house at bed time. The first few nights I didnt but they still put them selves to bed. now, if i forget the food they dont go in without it until after dark. However, my question is this, do they need it? I was told that they... -
new ducks like new pond! phew!!
i got it this far yestweday but they wouldnt go in it yesterday....very suspicious of it! never saw a pond before the poor creatures! this morning they remembered where it was and went straight out and circled it and just stared for about a hour, then once they went in they were in for a solid... -
probably seen it before but it made me laugh out loud!!!
Well, Kenny the rooster costs a lot of money, but the farmer decides he'd be worth it. So, he buys Kenny. The farmer takes Kenny home and sets him down in the barnyard, first giving the rooster a pep talk. I want you to pace yourself now. You've got a lot of chickens to service here, and you...- wackwack
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new to forum and ducks
Hi! I have had my 4 ducks for a whole week now! I have 2 indian runner ducks and 2 aylsbury's, a duck and a drake, they may be pekin crosses as they have orange feet and beak.....either way, i love them!! As i never had ducks or chickens before i got older ducks, they are about 14 months old...