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How many ducks are you trying to house? We have a 7x7 rubbermaid shed that we use. We lock them up at night to keep them safe from predators.

Is it showing any signs of distress? Peeping is normal and some are more vocal than others. If it isn't showing signs of distress, I wouldn't worry. I would pick up a small waterer because they will go through a lot and a salsa bowl won't work for long. Something like this is good to start...

I wouldn't worry too much about them integrating. Like what was previously stated, keep an eye on them initially to make sure none of the bickering gets out of control. I would worry more about getting them back to healthy. My guess is that due to their poor health, they are still recovering...

Muscovies ARE ducks, they are just so far removed genetically from other species due to thousands of years of isolation that their offspring with other species are not able to reproduce.

Mine aren't chinese, but they honk whenever they see us. They want attention.

Wow. 15lbs? He was a big bird. I have khakis and Cayugas and the Cayugas are nowhere near that big. Mine all jumped/flew, (or were pushed/flew). My point was that mine piled out so fast, I would have been more worried that they would get injured getting pushed into any sides that may have...

So, what is too high a height? Like I said, mine would jump off the ramp as soon as they cleared the doorway half the time without issue. Is it dependent on breed?

I wouldn't worry about sides on the ramp. Ours used to be housed in an old barn with chicken doors about 3 feet off the ground. We installed a ramp that was about a foot wide with steps. Once they figured it out, they either walked up it or jumped on about halfway up to go in and pushed and...

Why give them medication if they don't need it? I prefer to medicate when my ducks are sick, and that is very rarely. I have found that they bounce back from illness fairly quickly 99% of the time with no medication. The only time I proactively medicate is in cases of injury.

Mine do the panicked "How do I get through the fence" thing almost daily. We keep them in with our ducks and they like to hop the fence around dusk and inevitably a couple get "trapped" and can't figure out how to get back in. I have to go out and let them in through the gate. One evening, I...

If you really want them to lay year round, I wouldn't let them go broody. Gather the fertilized eggs and incubate them if you want ducklings. If you don't care, let them do what they want with the understanding that they may not lay again after the clutch hatches. Unless you have a very...

Where are you located? I am not sure what breed of goose you have, but I have found that they don't need much for winter, just shelter and security from predators. I am in NH and my geese have a 3 sided shelter we built for them along with a secure pen (we enlarged it this fall because we lost...

My duck house is an uninsulated shed (with lots of hay to lay in) and we get temps well below 0F here in the winter. They are locked up at night for predator protection, but that is it. I quit giving them baths when it is below freezing mostly because the kiddie pool freezes. I do not put any...

I have one that is almost completely white now (she is almost 5 years old), but they were all solid black until after a year old and are "graying" at varying rates. I have a two year old hen that doesn't have any white. I sometimes wonder if it isn't related to how often they lay. The two...

That is interesting. We've purchased around a dozen over the past 5 years (2 from Metzer, the rest from a local feed store) and none of them had any yellow. I've also never seen any yellow on the other Cayugas I have seen in feed stores. They definitely didn't show any white when fully...

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you don't have a Cayuga, at least not a purebred one. Cayugas are solid iridescent black. The ducklings are solid black as well. The females don't get white feathers until they are older (a year or more) and they are very random.

Have you tried candling any of them?

The first one looked fine to me. It just takes training. We had ours in an old barn when we first got them and they had a similar ramp, but much higher (probably about 2-3 feet up). For the first couple weeks we had to herd them and often place them on the ramp. After that, they got the hang...

It's hard to tell will the shadows, but I agree that the one in front looks like it might be a swedish. It's not a khaki with the yellow patch on it's chest. The one in back looks like a cayuga in this lighting.