The wood duck hen I hatched this spring has the drake coloring mutation. The hybrid below the hen is a wood duck/ Ring bill. I had a ring bill fall in love with a woodie hen.
How long did you have the wood ducks after receiving them? Sometimes they won't eat right away when after being moved or stressed, but if you had food for them she would get hungry and eat hopefully. I'm assuming the drake ate? The other thing is she may have had something wrong already...
A kiddo pool will work as long as you clean in regularily, otherwise you will see oily water and dirty. We run $295 a pair. We have all our birds on 24/7 flowing water and they are outside. Other places I see efowl is $320 and they are brokers, so you don't know who they are coming from. We...
Peacock,
About all I have is white redheads but no breeds in the blues. A friend of mine has pintails that are close to silver. Otherwise all I have is some hybrid woodduck/ring necks, and a couple hooded merganser/goldeneye mixes which are interesting.
Chickenzzzz,
We feed our ducks a all flock, mixed with corn, soybean, wheat and some small grit. With the cold we have had they have been eating alot of corn, and when it warms they go back to the all flock more. If they are getting fat cut down to basically all flock feed, but in the winter...