If the water is to cold and there feathers aren't fully water proof, they will start to look like there missing feathers and having trouble standing up, walking and etc... I let my mallards in water to cold and it happened to them. I put a heat lamp on them and left them enough room to get away...
My mallards are still kind of young and I'm trying to figure out if I have the sexs right based on what little I know. 2 are proudly quacking and the other one doesn't really do anything. The same 2 quacking have orange to a darker color bill, with the other 1 yellow. Are the 2 quacking hens and...
(1) Are you new to ducks / when did you first get ducks?
Yes, I started raising them in April of this year.
(2) How many ducks do you have right now?
7
(3) What breeds do you have?
Pekin and Mallard
(4) How did you find out about BackYardChickens.com?
Google
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This is my first time raising ducks, I have 4 pekins an 3 mallards. Ok, now I may sound stupid for even thinking of an idea like this but is there any way you could attach a leg band to a duck, and having the leg band attached to a very long light weight rope or something like this and attaching...