any tips?

[Jpat]

hahaha i had a cayuga whos favorite snack was fingers

 

[taekook7]

You'll need a brooder. I use a 40-gallon Rubbermaid tote, or a handy cardboard box.

A duckling feeder is the same as a chick feeder. You'll have to be more creative with the waterer unless you want to clean up the bedding twenty times a day; ducks are messy. Some people use a gallon jug with a hole cut in the side so that the ducklings can't just shove the water everywhere.

You'll want a heat lamp or a heating pad to brood the ducklings.

Bedding. I find hay or straw works fine for me. It has a tendency to mould, but if you clean it out once every so often, that's not a big problem. Ducklings will sometimes eat pine shavings, so that's not preferred, though many do well on it. Cedar shavings are mildly toxic.

Food: Ducklings can eat most chick starter. Check the niacin levels on the bag to make sure they're above 55 ppm before you buy, or supplement vitamin B.

Adult ducks do best with a ready water source. Even a kiddy pool will work. They can eat allflock chicken feed, or really, any chicken feed so long as it's 15% or more protein. A laying duck will probably need calcium on the side.

They should have a coop. For two ducks, a doghouse would probably work well. I'd also think about making a run for them. I don't have problems in the summer or spring, but in the winter, the predators start hunting duck. Best if they're locked up snug then.


My younger Rouens are pretty handy fliers if they get enough room for takeoff. I clip wings.

Very broody breed.. Prepare for ducklings. Which, I understand, is preferred.


Most ducks don't bite unless they have ducklings. Rouens aren't my friendliest ducks. Most ducks aren't very friendly. In fact, they're paranoid. You have to spend a lot of time around them and be very patient to tame ducks. Let them come to you. Offer feed. etc.

thank you so much!!