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WINTER DUCKS
I was wondering what you all do for your ducks in the winter? I have 3 ducks (7 months old) What kind of shelter do you use? We have a small house for them with straw, but they would rather sleep in the grass.. in the cold wind and everything. (Yes they know it’s there) :) Do you change their...- AshleyNicole06
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- drakes ducks mallard rouens
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- Forum: Ducks
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How to introduce a new duckling to the flock?
Hello there everyone. For those of you that frequent the duck thread you'll know that my Cayuga duck, Mochi, passed away a couple days ago due to a terrible accident. Our other duck, Billy, is now alone by herself with the 5 chickens we own. She is not acting much different.. but I have noticed... -
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Help! My Duck Is Sitting On A Hidden Nest!
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- broody cayuga first clutch mallard mystery ducklings nest omg babies pekin splash swedish swedish black
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Duck seems to still be breathing heavy?
Should I be worried? I posted on the emergency board a couple days ago regarding my mallard female breathing pretty heavily. I discovered something stuck in her nose and thought that might be the reason but two days later and I feel like she’s still breathing heavily? She might not even be, it... -
Does my duck hate me?
I never actually knew there was a duck thread until now! This is what I get for not coming on here too often lol. But now that there's a community where I can ask other duck owners questions... could you help me figure out if my duck hates me? I have two ducks. A female Mallard named Billy and... -
Help! Duck is breathing heavily?
hello there I have a pet mallard duck (female) who has started breathing very heavily. I noticed it earlier today and maybe thought it was just from her being active but I have her in the house right now with my other duck (I give them nightly baths) and she's still breathing heavily? Even just...- DuckMochi
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- duck heavy breathing help mallard
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- Forum: Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures
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Mating backyard Mallard Drake and Blue Trout Indian Runner Hen
Hi everyone, first post here and new to the forums. Finally decided to make an account after reading threads on here for months! We got chickens and ducks over Mother's Day weekend of 2017 and have been thoroughly enjoying ourselves with them every since. They're all so quirky and fun to watch...- SewellFarmers
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- duck ducklings mallard mating runner
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Mallard Drake molting into female feathers? Do mallard drakes change sex?
So I have a pond behind my house where I have many ducks, some raised by me and some wild. There has been a Mallard drake and Rouen female who have been mated since her mate was killed by a fox (It's been about a year now) now, about 3 months ago, I released 2 Rouen ducks, which I had raised, to...- Maddieiceee
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- change mallard molting sex
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My duck has an extreme case of depression
My duck used to have a companion until she died. They were raised together and sadly she died at 2 months old. I believe a Fox got her but since the accident my female duck has been crying in stress. I have tried putting her with chickens even chicks and she hates them. She always wants to be...- EstefanyHernandez10
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- companion depressed duck female lonely mallard
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underweight mallard drakes???
hello! first time poster and duck owner. about two months ago, my family and i acquired some mallard ducks from some terrible living conditions. we live out in the desert; it reaches 120 in the summer sometimes. not exactly an ideal place to own ducks to begin with, but the people who owned...- sourmilksundae
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- diet drakes feeding food mallard skinny underweight
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Please help! Need advice about our mallard about to hatch ducklings
Hello! I have quite a few questions as we are fairly new to having ducks (we have 4, 1 mallard and 3 pekins) We have owned them a little over a year and were told it would probably be unlikely to see a broody duck care for a nest long enough to hatch but when our mallard started the process we... -
Female Adult duck showing green patches? Please help!!
I have 1 mallard, 3 mallards/grey and 1 peking duck. They are all fully grown adult ducks that i hand raised from babies. All around 3ish years old. I have noticed a change in their beak colour over the past 2 years and i have no idea whether its normal or not. Their beaks use to be normal... -
Raising Mallard Ducklings
Hi all, new to this forum but looking for some advice. I am a veterinary technician and trying to obtain an assistant position with my local animal control officer. With that said she's a coworker at my veterinary hospital and good friend of mine. A few weeks ago she got a call about two...- LivGreeley
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- diet ducklings ducks mallard orphan
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Sudden Duckling Death
A friend of mine found 3 ducklings wandering around her yard with no mother. She happened to bring one to my dads work, where he thought it belonged with another nest of ducklings outside his work. After placing it there he realized it didn't belong because it would run away from it rather than... -
Duckling Update
Five day old mallards. They had their first bath today. They are very dependent on each other but they are warming up to me. -
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Ducking membrane dried out!
Hello!! A mallard duck had layed 8 eggs near my house but something got to the eggs and there were only two left. The mother abandoned them and I took them in to incubate for the last week. I've been doing my best to keep them alive with what I have and They are ready to hatch but I don't have...- Ginaselv
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- dried out ducking hatching mallard membrane
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- Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs