Feeding ducks

[myduckduckie]

By my house there is a pond and there are 4 indian runner ducks (not pure breed) that i feed with dried mealworms and duck food pellets but they have eggs now and the female duck thats on the eggs goes crazy when i come with food. pushing the other 3 out the way. almost choking on the food because she eats super fast. I know they problably eat more when laying eggs but is it normal that she goes so crazy? Is it also normal for her to have 2 nest and more than 10 eggs? She already had a other nest too a week ago.

(They are not mine they were from somebody who doesnt live here anymore.there are 2 female ducks and 2 male ducks)

 

[BelovedBirds]

By my house there is a pond and there are 4 indian runner ducks (not pure breed) that i feed with dried mealworms and duck food pellets but they have eggs now and the female duck thats on the eggs goes crazy when i come with food. pushing the other 3 out the way. almost choking on the food because she eats super fast. I know they problably eat more when laying eggs but is it normal that she goes so crazy? Is it also normal for her to have 2 nest and more than 10 eggs? She already had a other nest too a week ago.

(They are not mine they were from somebody who doesnt live here anymore.there are 2 female ducks and 2 male ducks)

Domestic ducks don't survive very long in the wild. Any chance you could catch and save them?
I expect the poor girl is very hungry, she might not be getting all the nutrients she needs out there.

 

[Ourgosling22]

Domestic ducks don't survive very long in the wild. Any chance you could catch and save them?
I expect the poor girl is very hungry, she might not be getting all the nutrients she needs out there.

I’m not an expert on ducks laying for hatchlings but I would suspect she needs feed specific for that. As well as vitamins and nutrients. I agree with BelovedBirds that domestic birds don’t survive long out in wild. If you can somehow get the ducks and her eggs(someone needs to fill you in on how to do that) to a safer place and a coop for during night.

 

[myduckduckie]

Domestic ducks don't survive very long in the wild. Any chance you could catch and save them?
I expect the poor girl is very hungry, she might not be getting all the nutrients she needs out there.

They live here in the wild now for around 4 years and every year they have eggs and ducklings but the ducklings dont survive because of other birds and animals .she is not skinny they are all 4 pretty bulky. But every time they have eggs they come to my front yard crossing the road luckily its a slow road (of course the crazy eating female standing against my door) and then i have to walk them back to the water. Catching them isnt gonna make them happy i think.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Do you know where these ducks came from?

 

[myduckduckie]

Do you know where these ducks came from?

Yes from a man that lived by the water

 

[Miss Lydia]

He doesn't take care of them?

 

[myduckduckie]

He doesn't take care of them?

He is not alive anymore.

 

[BelovedBirds]

He is not alive anymore.

And someone just let the ducks go?

 

[myduckduckie]

And someone just let the ducks go?

His backyard was against the water so they always were in the water and his backyard but after that happened with him nobody tried to catch them.