Duck breed?

[21hens-incharge]

Wow... that seems really dumb
Hopefully they at least have signs saying to not feed them bread.

They put out dispensers that give a good handful of duck pellets for a quarter.
They built a duck house on an island in the pond and the ducks DO use it.

They are well cared for by the city and much loved by the people who use the park.

 

[SolarDuck]

They put out dispensers that give a good handful of duck pellets for a quarter.
They built a duck house on an island in the pond and the ducks DO use it.

They are well cared for by the city and much loved by the people who use the park.O

Wow! No idea that places did that that is awesome! I wish my local park would do something like that for the dumped domestics.

 

[ANightPerson]

They put out dispensers that give a good handful of duck pellets for a quarter.
They built a duck house on an island in the pond and the ducks DO use it.

They are well cared for by the city and much loved by the people who use the park.

That's actually pretty awesome. I used to live in North Carolina and there was this manmade lake I would go to which was always warm due to the powerplant that was in the middle of it. That's why they dug out the lake, to cycle the water through the plant in pipes and then pour it back out into a reservoir steaming hot. But everyone loves that lake, it's pretty big and like 100 feet deep or something crazy. It was stocked with a bunch of native plants and fish and there were sizable flocks of feral ducks and geese that thrived there because the water was always warm by the plant and people that lived on the lake put out food for them.

They hated people and you couldn't get within 10 feet of one, but they were cool to look at. They were really cool colors too, given all the mixed breeds. Some of them would mate with the wild ducks and their babies would fly away in the winter if they could.

 

[Lucy Brown]

That's actually pretty awesome. I used to live in North Carolina and there was this manmade lake I would go to which was always warm due to the powerplant that was in the middle of it. That's why they dug out the lake, to cycle the water through the plant in pipes and then pour it back out into a reservoir steaming hot. But everyone loves that lake, it's pretty big and like 100 feet deep or something crazy. It was stocked with a bunch of native plants and fish and there were sizable flocks of feral ducks and geese that thrived there because the water was always warm by the plant and people that lived on the lake put out food for them.

They hated people and you couldn't get within 10 feet of one, but they were cool to look at. They were really cool colors too, given all the mixed breeds. Some of them would mate with the wild ducks and their babies would fly away in the winter if they could.

that is really cool but i found out that the ducks i saw at the park were not the city's. I am pretty sure they were abandoned

 

[MGG]

that is really cool but i found out that the ducks i saw at the park were not the city's. I am pretty sure they were abandoned

I would rescue them then.

 

[DucksAreBest]

I would rescue them then.

X2, they most likely won't survive.

 

[riss]

Agreed with everyone else. And yeah either that's a really large pekin or I just haven't seen a full grown pekin in awhile

 

[WallacetheKhakiCampbell]

PEKIN, unfortunately they probably won't last long in the wild. If you found it again it would probably do much better in your care , but I don't know if you would be interested in that.

 

[WallacetheKhakiCampbell]

I definitely second calling animal control before you do anything else, even if someone just dumped them there, they'll be more equipped to catch them and get them to somewhere safe for them. People dumping domestic ducks in the wild is actually pretty common, a lot of stupid people get ducklings and then don't know what to do with them when they're grown. I see them in the wetlands every year. They usually don't survive the winter, but you're in Florida so that's not much of an issue.

So true, I see these black Swedish/mallard things swimming around where I live!

 

[WallacetheKhakiCampbell]

PEKIN, unfortunately they probably won't last long in the wild. If you found it again it would probably do much better in your care , but I don't know if you would be interested in that.

Sorry, I didn't see everyone else already said this