Entertaining your ducks, keeping the noise down?

[ibarbidahl]

Yikes, I have highly underestimated the amount of noise my female ducks would make as they matured. Now I'm trying to keep them quiet so I don't make my neighbors angry. I need to manage 6 more weeks before they will be leaving my yard. Any ideas on how to entertain them? As it is I have the ducks separated from the drakes to help. They have a shallow (Cat litter pan) water source I put seed/wheat into for them and I make sure their feeder is full all day long.

Why do they have to be so loud? And here I thought Welshies were supposed to be a quieter breed. I had 4 drakes without a single person noticing and now with 2 ducks - everyone on the block can hear them!

Alternately- anyone want to buy a gold and a silver Welsh harlequin hen? TSQ silver. LOL

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yikes, I have highly underestimated the amount of noise my female ducks would make as they matured. Now I'm trying to keep them quiet so I don't make my neighbors angry. I need to manage 6 more weeks before they will be leaving my yard. Any ideas on how to entertain them? As it is I have the ducks separated from the drakes to help. They have a shallow (Cat litter pan) water source I put seed/wheat into for them and I make sure their feeder is full all day long.

Why do they have to be so loud? And here I thought Welshies were supposed to be a quieter breed. I had 4 drakes without a single person noticing and now with 2 ducks - everyone on the block can hear them!

Alternately- anyone want to buy a gold and a silver Welsh harlequin hen? TSQ silver. LOL

I'm thinking if you were to go here to one of these threads and post you'd find someone pretty quick

https://www.backyardchickens.com/newsearch?search=Florida+thread

 

[Richb353]

Hello,
That is surprising they are loud. Mine will let out a hearty "quack" from time to time, but most of the time it sounds like they are just chatting among themselves. In my case, tall grass and room to roam to keeps them curious and relatively quiet. They do get loud when it's feeding time, but that is only twice a day.

Good luck,
Rich

 

[Sabz]

I have three ducks and one is loud as hell also!!! Incredible. He doesn't stop for one second. I let them out in the run, he has a little mini pool to play in, food, shelter, etc.. He is 5-6 weeks now and there is NO WAY to keep him quiet. If I pick him up, he continue to squawk. I'll get him in the house, he'll continue. I give him a bath (more water space to play with, instead of outside in the mini pool) that doesn't do it. Right now he is in my basement and I he will be in my freezer quite soon. He is no fun for the neighbours and me either..

I will never ever get any other ducks!!

I also think mine is a female! Maybe that is the difference.. I don't know. I tried a lot of things and can't seem to make her happy

 

[ibarbidahl]

Hello,
That is surprising they are loud. Mine will let out a hearty "quack" from time to time, but most of the time it sounds like they are just chatting among themselves. In my case, tall grass and room to roam to keeps them curious and relatively quiet. They do get loud when it's feeding time, but that is only twice a day.

Good luck,
Rich

Rich-
All things considered I would not think of them as loud but I have one in particular (Gold phase female) that doesn't just honk, honk, quack chatter chatter she does the alarm quack RONT-RONT-RONT-RONT-RONT!! quack. That is for about an hour in the morning and any time she sees one of us.

Would having more company help or hurt the situation? The drakes are becoming sexually mature now.

 

[Sabz]

Mine has company - 2 other ducks which I am not sure of the sex, 20 chicks and 5 layers and still screams Maybe I have the wrong type of companions!

 

[ibarbidahl]

Nah, Sabz -
I think you just got yourself a noisemaker, like me! Those silly girls.

 

[Sabz]

Yeah.. quite sad I wanted to keep her to taste duck eggs and have a pet duck, but.. !