When I got home last night there was one more duckling. It was a bit slower then the others and was getting left behind we put them all in the coop last night and woke up to it dead... it looked like the mom had killed it :-( really sad today not sure if ill want to do this again.
I May be asking this prematurely and if so ill be posting pictures of my new hatchlings... but my question is this, my sweedish blue duck went broody around Easter and laid 2 eggs. A couple days later she was stealing the other ducks eggs that were in the nest next to her including the wood...
All my sweedish ducks have green if you here a quack at all its a female the males don't quack ours all changed about 7our 8weeks old the male not until a good 10
Ya the meal worms do work, I feed them those by hand and when they get old enough they will start yelling for you to give them more treats, mine are kind of funny when i walk to them they walk away and when I walk away they fallow me. One other thing i do is every time i give them a treat I...
I have 5 females and one male the females voices fully changed at 7 weeks old and are full out quacks and the males voice sounds like a squeaky whisper and sometimes when he's really excited it's a whispery croak
When we walk outside our sweedish/cyuga ducks will start running back and forth in our yard flapping their wings really hard I think they're trying to practice to fly does anybody Swedish ducks fly and if so how high? I have an 8-foot fence but I live in a city neighborhood and I don't want them...
I got them all from Ifa they were labeled blue sweedish do you think breeder could have Cross bread a sweedish and a Cayuga? Wondering if there all related. There was about 12 black ducks in the cage.
I've started noticing that some of our 7 week old sweedish ducks are getting purple blue and green feathering and 3 of them don't even have the white bible there solid black. My one that has the white also is getting the same feathering is this something normal for a sweedish to get or do you...
I have 6 sweedish ducks and I'm not sure how many males and females they are 6 weeks old and some are quacking so i should know soon. My question is 3 of them are larger so I have a feeling I might end up with more then one male if this happens will I need to get more females. There new...