Da' Cute and Cuddly Call Duck thread!

[JadeComputerGal]

In a last ditch attempt to get some snowy to actually hatch and live this year I stuck 3 eggs under a few broody orpingtons...I have 1 hatched and 2 internally pipped!

Yay! I love Snowys! Please post some pics when they're all hatched.

 

[Amykins]

Well I know that other Ducks will begin wondering off more and building practice nests (my Muscovies, mallards, pekin , and my rouens have done this )

Well, she's been going off to the corners of the bedroom and burying herself in piles of laundry. Do you think she's getting ready to lay? She hasn't been doing any digging or scratching to make a nest, just obsessed with fluffy things and hiding in corners, LOL

 

[CALLDUCKS29]

Here is one of my 4 month old white call ducks. His name is Arthur

 

[buff goose guy]

Well I know that other Ducks will begin wondering off more and building practice nests (my Muscovies, mallards, pekin , and my rouens have done this )

Well, she's been going off to the corners of the bedroom and burying herself in piles of laundry. Do you think she's getting ready to lay? She hasn't been doing any digging or scratching to make a nest,  just obsessed with fluffy things and hiding in corners, LOL

She could be , she might not be digging because she is a house duck, just be on the look out for eggs, just in case

 

[buff goose guy]

Here is one of my 4 month old white call ducks. His name is Arthur

Where did u get that pool container thing?

Cute call duck

 

[CALLDUCKS29]

Hi

I got the pond from Halls Garden Centre in Birmingham in the UK.

2.4 metres long and at least 2ft deep. My ducks love it they sit in it all day long literally.

 

[Amykins]

She could be

, she might not be digging because she is a house duck, just be on the look out for eggs, just in case

You really think so? She's only 4 months old, though. Maybe she's just copping an attitude. :/ Time will tell I suppose. Right now my biggest concern is getting enough calcium in her, she's decided that grit is horrifying. We've been sneaking egg shells into her food but I don't know if it's enough.

 

[buff goose guy]

ohh amy idk then the earliest ive had a duck lay was 6 months-7 months old. but if she is being mated with it might trigger it earlier

 

[Tevyes Dad]

You really think so? She's only 4 months old, though. Maybe she's just copping an attitude. :/ Time will tell I suppose. Right now my biggest concern is getting enough calcium in her, she's decided that grit is horrifying. We've been sneaking egg shells into her food but I don't know if it's enough.

First if she is not laying yet, she doesn't need it so she may not hunger for it - our drakes never eat the oyster shell which is great. Second you might try a different one if things don't change. We bought oyster shell in the 7 lb bags and the ducks barely touched it. When we set up our bulk bins and finally got through the 7 lb bag, we bought a 50 lb bag and this was from a different company and had a different size/shape. The girls think it is candy and go through a 50 lb bag in the time it took them to go through a 7 lb bag of the other stuff. we probably find about 1 lb on the bottom of the pool every week (finally ground) and there is no way they are carrying any there, this is just what comes out the other end.

 

[Amykins]

That's the thing, Wobbles WILL eat it! The stuff we got is like you said, in a smallish bag but we still have to smash it up a bit. But the problem is Bean thinks anything new is automatically nightmarish and will avoid it like the plague. She STILL won't eat watermelon or cantaloupe unless I cut it into teeny tiny pieces for her first!

I'm aware she's still way too young to be mating/laying, but with Wobbles making every effort to woo her I'm just not sure. Totally new to calls so I don't know how their schedules run compared to bigger breeds. Wobbles began to go all horndoggish around 4-5 months, so I do wonder about lil' Bean.

Still, just for future reference, what ARE the signs? I became well acquainted with the "I gotta lay an egg" dance that my silkies would do right beforehand, but I don't know how ducks act right before they pop out an egg.