Anyone else have "disturbed" ducks?

[DuckLady]

I stick my head out the door and yell "DUCKIIIIIIIIEEEEESS!!" and the quacking in answer would deafen you.

I find it highly amusing.

 

[kodiakchicken]

It's a sad state of affairs when we have to take back-talk off our animals.
But really, would you have it any other way? I know I wouldn't!

 

[SandRun]

I have 4 Blue Swedish, and they can drive me nuts. It's not the noise they really aren't that loud. But I have to say they are not the most intelligent animals I've ever owned. They absolutely refuse to use any shelter willingly. I built a floating duck house, and they couldn't care less. Not to say I don't like them, but they march to their own beat. I'll likely get more in the spring as well.

They also haven't laid any eggs in months. Who knows.

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[nettie]

my two knuckle heads loooove to quack whenever they want anything! They get to quacking and i yell to my female, "Mingmei! Quiet! What do you want NOW!?!?" She continues to quack until i, the slave, pick her up and move her by her newly poured food (they won't eat anything they left over).

My ducks also spend alot of time inside on my patio/sunroom area which is within their sight and ear shot of my kitchen. they quickly learned that when the fridge opens or the microwave goes ding, there is food. And when there's food they quack superloudly until we give them something. If we ignore them, my male runner jumps out of his pen and comes running into the table with his big happy ducky smile and "puppy eyes" until i feel so guilty i give him some peas.

What punkies...

 

[chickygirl2]

That's one of the reasons I like muscovies- no noise!

 

[Cottage Rose]

Same here. Like my quiet Muscovies.
Now the geese are another story but they only gte rowdy once in awhile.

Why can't you provide a pool in the winter?
I use those blue plastic kiddy pools despite freezing temps all winter.
I just dump them out daily and refill or if I forget chop the ice off the top and take out the ice chunks with my apple picker pitch fork. I use a hose year round and just drain it our after I use it.

You can also use those large, black, rubber feeders
so you don't have to fill a big pool up

 

[chickygirl2]

Oh ,look at those sebbies!!!!

Aren't they just the best?!!!!

 

[Cottage Rose]

The rubber feeders come in all sizes.
I have some bigger and deeper than this one.

They love going in the water, even when its really cold.
They really need to bathe to keep their feathers in good condition.
See the rubber feeder behind the blue pool for size comparison.

 

[kodiakchicken]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one with rowdy fowl!

Cottage - how do you keep your hose from not freezing? Ours freezes solid and if we don't get it off the connection then the ice can back up into the faucet and bust the line.

I could keep the pool filled for them, but our kiddie pool is a little bigger than yours and not that easy to dump out. I have to scoop it out before I can even lift it to dump it. I've got to get a drain installed on it next year. The rubber feeder bowls would be great, if I could find them here. We only have one feed store and I had to wait a month for the truck just to get a bag of scratch! I guess I could order a rubber feed bowl. Right now I have heated 1.5 gallon water bowls out and they take turns wading in that. Seems to make them happy.

 

[Cottage Rose]

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I unhook my hose (100 ft. of it) from the yard hydrant and drain it out. I consider it my daily exercise.

I bet you could buy those rubber feeders online.
They're Fortex brand I think. I will find out and let you know. Gotta go to work now.