Is it just the one duck? Maybe she doesn't want to be alone and away from her chicken family. One of my ducks took awhile to get in the water by himself, even though the other two ducks were in the water a lot. The other two would just jump in, this one I had to make steps out of chopped wood...
Oh, that's just so nice of them to help ! Haha. We got some rain, but there is no snow, not even in the mountains. That means another bad year for the fish in the river and the drought isn't getting any better. I was really hoping we would get snow this year.
It's not a dumb question. Different ducks lay different amounts of eggs. Khaki Campbell's lay more then chickens. Stories guide to raising ducks has a list of ducks and how many eggs per year they lay. We have anconas who can lay 240 eggs a year. Ducks also tend to lay longer then chickens and...