Duck Danger Call

[Luv Ducks]

My Hens will quack like crazy if they are being bothered by the drakes and they don't want to mate. That is why I rehomed some of my large drakes this summer. Do you have drakes in with your ducks? My Hens sounded like someone was killing them when they did not choose to be mated.

 

[cassandrapettersson]

When my goose is alert to a danger she just make low one low call ever so often. Most of the time it’s because deer are on the other side of the fence. My Muscovy female make soft noises too if something is flying over head. My rooster is 13 and when he makes the warning believe me everyone listens. Lol

I once saw an eagle fly overhead of the coop and it's quite interesting what they do in that situation, the rooster does his Warning sound and everyone takes cover, geese start screaming meanwhile ducks were between the geese (we only had 2 ducks at the time)

 

[cassandrapettersson]

My Hens will quack like crazy if they are being bothered by the drakes and they don't want to mate. That is why I rehomed some of my large drakes this summer. Do you have drakes in with your ducks? My Hens sounded like someone was killing them when they did not choose to be mated.

To young to mate, but I do have drakes! It's mostly drakes who make the sound so I don't think it's so

 

[Luv Ducks]

To young to mate, but I do have drakes! It's mostly drakes who make the sound so I don't think it's so

Oh, okay. My Ducks started mating at 3 months and I wasn't sure how young yours was. Mine do keep an eye on the sky if they are outside of their covered pen so they do seem to be alert to anything abnormal.

 

[ruthhope]

When my ducks or my sons ducks are out foraging, they have half an ear to the sky. They hear things before I see them. When one hears something they all go quiet with their heads cocked to the sky listening.

Last year, when my son's juvenile pekins first moved outside from the brooder, they were very wary of people. I spent a lot of time sitting on a chair with them. When they first heard a plane go over, the ducks ran over to hide behind my legs! Clearly I was the lesser danger!

 

[raingarden]

The other day I was sitting on a log and tossing some feed to the Koloa ducks. They kept looking straight up. A duck doesn't tilt its head back to look up. It tilts its head sideways and looks up with one eye.

After a minute of this I look up and there, way way up in the sky are two giant birds soaring almost motionless against a strong wind. I later found they were Great Frigatebirds. Not quite as big as the Magnificant Frigatebird, but still with a wing span of about seven feet. So, now we were all keeping an eye on them and the frigatebirds seemed to remain motioness like a kite for a long time. Then they changed their pitch and zoomed out to sea against the wind without ever having to flap a wing.

 

[cassandrapettersson]

Should the danger call the ducks make be taken seriously?? My ducks won't stop doing it, we have guard geese, they notice danger before anyone else, and even when the ducks do their danger call the geese ignore it and keep quiet... Is there something bothering my ducks?? Because it's definitely not a predator...

They're still doing it, but they don't do it at me or my grandmother anymore. Now it's just other people they alert eachother of

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

Should the danger call the ducks make be taken seriously?? My ducks won't stop doing it, we have guard geese, they notice danger before anyone else, and even when the ducks do their danger call the geese ignore it and keep quiet... Is there something bothering my ducks?? Because it's definitely not a predator...

My ducks have a “spokesduck” who alerts when there is danger. It used to be Daphne, but now it’s Matilda. Anyways, she alerts me when there is danger from ground level (danger from above means it’s time to impersonate a rock).

Sometimes, I can’t see what she sees, so I look to her sisters for cues. If they take her seriously, I do too. Her problem is that she will sometimes use her alarm call when bored and stuck in the duckio, or when foraging and the others don’t want want to follow her somewhere so she is left alone.

I usually err on the side of safety because they can clearly see things I can’t.