Its been awhile since I have been on this forum, so I'm not sure if this is allowed here or not. I already posted to the Free Rehome page. Anyway I have a 1 year old drake buff that I was told was a hen when I adopted him at 8 weeks old. Well its been almost a year and with another Drake and...
About a year ago I took in a duckling for someone that was trying to hatch 6 ducklings. Only one hatched so I took it in with my 2 Pekins, we had just lost one of our own. About a month later this cute little duck turned out to be a drake. We already have a drake and they are not getting...
I went outside a bit ago and only 2 of my ducks were in their tub swimming. The temps here have been in the 90s for days. I looked for the other duck and found her inside the duck house with vomit everywhere! I picked her up and misted her with the hose and cleaned her up and she cannot...
Just wondering if it is still okay to eat duck eggs after a duck has been given antibiotics? I know there is a withdraw time, but even after that is it safe?
I've been through my ducks moulting before, but I never really kept track of how long it took. One of my girls just started last week, and well of course her egg production stopped. I was a little disappointed because I hope to have eggs for Easter! I still have one laying every other day she...
Well we are at the beginning of round two of the freezing rain/sleet and my silly trio are laying out in it!!! They already have some ice hanging on their feathers. This morning my husband and I went out and put up mini shelters in their pen and even an extra duck house. Yet they are refusing...
This morning I went to collect eggs around 7:30am... and "walked -in" on one of the girls laying her eggs. Which is weird because normally they have been laying before 5 am. Well I found one egg not in the duck house so I took it in. When I came back out she was done laying so I opened up the...
Just need to vent... any tips are welcome!
I came home today to find our neighbor's dog trying to DIG under our fence on the side of the yard where are ducks are! We live in a subdivision and these neighbors (who live behind us) never have their dog chained (we've informed them several times...
My grandma has been waiting all fall/winter for duck eggs so I could make deviled duck eggs. Now that I finally have enough to make some I need some advice. How much longer should I cook them? and How old should they be? I found a previous thread on this and know that they are not for...
Our girls finally laid their first eggs today...well I assume they both did. There were two so I guess it could have been one today and one yesterday and I just didn't see it. Anyway I was excited this is my first duck egg. Are they safe to eat when they first start laying them or should I...
This weekend we went outside to find our Doberman in the duck pin! To our surprise she didn't care about the ducks, just their food. So later that day we let Maddie our Doberman out with the ducks and this is what happened!
I just wish I would have had the video camera the first time I...
My husband was so thoughtful and ran to the next town to get our ducks some more food as they were getting low. We he accidentally picked up layer feed instead of flock raiser. Is this going to be okay or do I need to run tomorrow and get the raiser? Also they have sometime called grower...
My sister flew home for a few days and she was anxious to see my new ducks. She is a professional photographer with a studio out in Salem, MA called Lightshed Photography. Anyway she did a great job considering my ducks did NOT want to pose for her. Here they are!
They are 8 weeks old in this...
This past weekend we walked our ducks down to our neighbor's. I know bread is not the best for ducks, so I have never feed them any. Well the neighbor had a biscuit and asked if it would be okay to give to the ducks. I said one biscuit wouldn't hurt split between three ducks. Would you...
Is this possible? My pekins are about 16 days old now and I'm noticing different sounds than before. Is it possible to tell now if I have drakes or hens? If so I might have to post some video of them individually for help if I can't find any online.
Today was the first day I let my ducklings in the pond to swim. Its 90 degree out and a small pond (100 gallons) and I never left them alone. Boy did they love it! Well at least two of the three. I wish I had my camera because two of them dove underneath the water to the bottom!!! How neat...
As I've been watching my 3 new pekin ducklings one of them is always pecking/biting at the other two when they are eating or drinking. They are only four days old. Is this normal or am I going to have a big problem on my hands when they get older?
So I ordered some pekin ducklings and they were supposed to hold shipping until we got back from vacation...well got a call this morning from the post office that our 'chickens' arrived so we drove back home 2.5 hrs to get our ducks! We get to the post office and the lady says here are your...