drake

I’m having immense difficulty in sexing my two silver Appleyard’s - they’re quacks sound similar and because I only have the two it’s hard to identify. They both do not have a drake feather and their black feathers on their heads ect. have no green iridescence. The only things that make me think...

Hey all! Wondering if any of your drakes do a “dip” sort of dance? move? in unison? We have two Ancona boys and they seem to do this when they’re really happy or excited (definitely when they’re surrounded by ladies. I’m not going to say it’s reminiscent of a boy band move, but i can’t say it’s...

So, here's my dilemma. It's kind of a long story so please bear with me. We bought 2 ducklings from TSC and the same day bought 4 chicks from a local non-chain farm store. They've been raised together and do great together. We then hatched out (via incubator) 9 baby chickens that we are brooding...

Its my first spring (getting close to 1 year mark having my ducks) and I have 4 sibling runner drakes. They've done well together all year (they'll be 1 year in march or may) but now its gotten warmer in one day and they all switched up and are fighting hard together. The most submissive one...

Today I had to make an emergency trip with our 3 yo Giant Pekin “Jack” to the aviary veterinarian. For a few days we’ve noticed he isn’t able to tuck in his male part and drags it all over the frozen yard as he waddles to and fro. After researching if this dragging was normal - which it isn’t...

Before anyone asks, yes, he is a drake, no doubt about it. Most drakes, from what I hear, will simply hang out near the nest while his hen does her thing. Some will stand guard over the nest, and very rarely, drakes will actually sit on the nest themselves. My drake has gone a little beyond the...

Hello, my Silver Appleyard drake duck is not doing very well. in the last couple months, I have already lost two female duck that had some of the same symptoms as what my drake duck “Ducky” has… his symptoms are runny nose and eyes ( his eyes watered enough yesterday that his face was all crusty...

Hi, my Silver Appleyard drake duck is not doing very well. in the last couple months, I have already lost two female duck that had some of the same symptoms as what my drake duck “Ducky” has… his symptoms are runny nose and eyes ( his eyes watered enough yesterday that his face was all crusty...

I am a first time duck mom to two 1.5 year old ducks, and they are stressing me out with all the weird duck things I know nothing about. Lol. Today, my question is, I’ve notice that my drakes penis pops out when he poops. It’s comes out about an inch, hangs out for a second, then goes back in...

Hi there! It’s been a while since I’ve posted on here. All my ducks are doing well and two of my hens have started laying! Fred, my Drake, has been good to the hens so far. He’s started to mate with them but he hasn’t been aggressive toward them. Sometime last week he’s started chasing me...

Hi all, I hate to separate my two ducks (1 male 1 female) but while they socialize together, the drake is generally aggressive towards the female as well as my other two hens. Sometimes I have to separate him during the day and she has so far seemed unbothered by it. My question is if my female...

I've got a few drakes that need to be rehomed. Does anyone know somewhere I could take them around the Denver area in Colorado?

Hello fellow duck lovers, I have two sweet young drakes that I am looking to rehome. I would love to keep them, but we don’t have enough hens for an healthy drake:hen ratio. They are excellent bug control, super entertaining, and are past the needy duckling stage but still young! Please let me...

Lost one of my muscovy girls to what i think was a fox, leaving me with a hen and drake. She seems very upset and not her self as those two did everything together. Is it worth getting another female just for her and am i okay with just adding one or do i need to get two? I have sorted an...

I have 6 drakes that I will give away. Two are pure Peking (1 year old) and 4 are khaki Campbell and Peking mix. (4 months old) They are all very friendly and would make good companions, friends or dinner.

Hi! Can anyone tell if this is the start of a drake feather? The runner duck in front is the one in question! Thank you!

Hey! So bit of a strange one. My brother keeps little call ducks and drakes, he has this one drake who killed all his children by drowning them once, drowned his partner and now.....................I discovered last night he had killed a fellow call duck....and...em...ate her? Like yesterday...