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Ha. I have pretty much the same issues. I've got a pond with a waterfall that I change once a week though a rather convoluted process involving a sump pump. But I also have a kiddie pool just like yours and I change the water once a day in the morning. They also enter and exit it by clambering...

I think all of us have that same blue kiddie pool.

Hi Velmas. I'm in almost exactly the same situation. I have single family house in a city sized lot in an urban-ish neighborhood. The yard is fenced in and I built the ducks a long narrow pond next to the garage. I started with six ducks and intended to round them up in a pen under my deck in...

I hear you about the sunflowers, Duckfarmer1. What I did last year was to start growing them in pots and not transplanting them in the garden until they were tall enough so the ducks could no longer reach the top leaves. They could still munch on the bottom ones, but the plants stayed alive!

That's adorable, Beaglegal. During the warmer months, if anyone asks me if my ducks can do any tricks, I say that they can play "Construction Crew". I go out to the yard with a shovel and all eight of them gather round in a group while I dig a hole. So many supervisors....

Yep. That sounds about right. Last winter was the first when my girls stopped laying and I was clueless as to when they would start again. I started a thread on the subject. Turns out it was March 7. I'm in Illinois, and since you're in a little more south, in Kentucky, it was indeed the time...

Oh my gosh. I thought I was the only one on earth spilling water over my nice office slacks every morning so I could schlepp water buckets to my ducks' kiddie pool now that the hose is frozen in winter. Happy to hear it goes with the territory. I likely won't go the heated hose route, since...

I only have the Welshie eggs! So all the same price. Still pretty sizable, but every now and then they'll plop down a honking huge double-yolker. I don't charge extra for that, but I put a little label on the carton noting there's a double-yolk included so the consumer doesn't freak out.

Hi Duck Farmer1. You can give it a try! I used to sell my duck eggs for $6 a dozen to neighbors and a restaurant last year. I'm in the city and duck eggs are a novelty to the yuppies! But they moved away and the restaurant stopped their orders. Now I sell them to a feed store for $3.50 a dozen...

Welshies! Mine send their greetings to Ashe, Charlie and Harlee from across the pond! Dang early November snow!

My ducks frequently get feathers stuck on their bills, and it's like seeing a loose thread on someone's jacket. I gotta reach and pick it off. But they consistently turn away with a "Keep those fingers to yourself, bub" look on their fowl faces. Irksome.

This has been an interesting thread for me. A have a flock of Welshies with one drake and originally 5 hens (2 have since died). I hatched 4 more this last April. These ducklings are all girls, and for a while I was disappointed because I was thinking a 1 to 7 ratio was too skewed, and my boy...

I'm actually selling my duck eggs for $6 a dozen! But that's here in the big city with Yuppies with plenty of disposable income eager to try this new locally-sourced cage-free delicacy. To WannaBeHillBilly, I had 2 opportunities that worked for me: 1) A neighborhood yard sale where I set up a...

You might be surprised. I set out a table a couple weeks ago at my neighborhood-wide garage sale offering about 40 duck eggs. Sold out in a half hour. Don't underestimate the novelty value. :D

I purchase Jumbo Pulp Egg Cartons from www.eggcartons.com (Item # EGPJSJBL) and my duckies' eggs fit quite well. Not sure if you might consider them expensive ($46 for 50 that hold a dozen). They also have a great half-dozen carton just for duck eggs (Item # FHPBL-6DPU), which is wonderfully...

So, for two years, my 4 adult ducks (Welshies) have made their happy home in my backyard in a semi-urban environment. They've got food, water, a pond, and a kiddie pool. Nice hay in a protected spot under the deck. They never wanted to leave. Three days ago, I let them roam in the front yard...

Agree with the other posters. Completely normal and it's a flirting move. My drake Keith only has eyes for Bridget at the moment, but that isn't stopping Myrtle from following him around with that exact same "side bob" to get his attention. I can't decide if it's like a soap opera or a middle...

My Welshie ducklings are more than a month old now, so I thought I might have exhausted all my gushing over adorable little peepers. But that picture is an 11 on the cuteness meter.

I went through this exact thing a month ago. You can see the egg move, you can hear them peeping when you hold the egg up to your ear, but nothing is coming out! It's dreadfully unnerving, but you gotta let the duckling come out on its own. First of all, I think it's 28 days that's the...

Oh yes, McChics, your ducklings can go outside full time. I'm in Illinois too, and I might be just the worst ducky daddy, but last Saturday, when my ducklings were only 3 weeks old, out they went! They were getting too big for the pen, their pine shavings couldn't stay dry a half hour, and the...