I ship, but wait until late Sept or Oct when the weather breaks and can be for sure the sex. I usually keep my 5 pair of regular mandies, 3 to 4 pair of white mandies and my 4 pair of ring teals. The rest are forsale.
You are correct. I have lost a few over the years. After about a year, they will not be so flighty if you move slow and no sudden movements. They like to watch what you are doing in their pen. Like cleaning the pond or filling feeding and water stations. Actually the Ring Teals are more flighty (and I lost one that flew out of a hole in the netting that I did not know I had that was only 2.5" round. she was gone. The babies both mandarins and teals can get out of 1" netting or wire. I was amazed. Now the teal do not lose their color when they molt but the mandarins do. So all mine look alike right now. Won't get color until late Sept - Oct. I use to have domestic ducks but my neighbors did not appreciate them. These ducks do not quack and what they do do is not loud at all.
They climb like a squirrel which makes it even more challenging. the mandarins males sound like a zipper being zipped really fast. Female have a quack but nothing like the domestic. The teals have a Wooop sound. Now muscovies don't quack? I wanted a female to help hatch out my mandie and teal eggs if I was in a bind but no one answered my add so I figured it was an omen. lol the teals can fit in your hand and mandies are just a tad bigger. So was also afraid the Muscovy would run them over. But mandies and teals are perching ducks so they don't spend a lot of time on the ground.
Hello mate, I live in England and I also have breed Mandarin ducks. I am really impressed with your flock. Can you kindly post the Aviary of your Mandarin ducks ? Thanks
Hens go broody when you don’t want them to… and won’t go broody when you do. 
