Pick up a baby pool and fill it up and you will see all the activities I raise pheasant, ducks, quail, but I am a hunter and one thing that ducks do is when you are hunting and say a duck lands in your decoy spread they will go on the water and swim
Are usually sit outside with the docs and they are let outside multiple times out of their cage I have a baby pool we're now my ducks are at the age to where they can jump in and jump out. Someone always has to be out here with them as they get older they will get more brazen and will not want...
You must be standing with your dock at all times just as a mother duck would be with her ducklings you will notice your duck turn it said and look towards the the sky! Hawks will zone in on your duckling along with any neighborhood cats and depending where you live foxes possums raccoons Etc...
Do not worry about your duck not being able to migrate I had the same concerns my first year but trust me when I tell you come October November their internal senses will tell them
Ducks will wake up very early and fly just before dark usually back to water. If they have a pen, than they will go into pen. You usually will not hear from them until the morning
Get a large Tupperware container get nonmedicated chicken/duck feed crumbles. Make sure it is non-medicated get a heat lamp a white light approximately 250
Keep him inside for a few weeks occasionally let him go in the tub or the sink but don't keep him in long without the mother around he...
I have raised mallards for about five years. They are great. I love the fact that once October November hit something makes them fly away I have successfully released on my mallards into the wild all with leg bands. The two I got this year for some reason I don't think they're going to leave LOL