Hello everyone. I raise call ducks and have acquired them from different farms over the past three years Last year I had 10 females and 8 drakes. Our eggs were very fertile, but I did have 2 aggressive males. Even though our coop grew last year, I thinned my ducks out to 20 females and 15 males...
Hi! This is aboyer116. I am a science teacher and have always loved water fowl. I fell in love with call ducks after seeing some wonderful videos of them. Originally, I bought eggs online and had little success with hatches. So...I invested in better incubators, brooders, and even built a...
Last year, we built a duck house that is about 8x10 with a fenced in area for our call ducks. We recently added a smaller housing unit for our drakes, and keep males and females separated for the most part. We did allow one male in with the mature females in the hopes of fertile eggs. We had...
Super information! I do have some questions, though! I currently have a call duck laying on 6 eggs. She is in a duck house with 4 other females calls. Will the other ducks harm the babies? I am not quite sure how to handle multiple ducks in the house once they hatch!
Thank you in advance...
We built a nice duck house last year with a door for us that locks, and a ramps for the ducks that we close up at night. The ducks have a large fenced in area with pool and some small structures. We have a pond about 30 feet away in a wooded area. Over the last week and a half, we have "lost...
I have been raising call duck for two years. At first, incubation and the magic formula to get those eggs to hatch was our issue. Now, figuring that part out, my new concerns are the mating habits of calls. Last year, we had 5 females and 3 males. These were adolescent ducks and not very...