Flying Age?

[DuckLover2399]

When do ducks useually start to fly?

 

[Hattiegun]

My call ducks started test flying @ around 7 weeks and could really fly by 9 or 10 weeks.

 

[DuckLover2399]

Oh yea i guess i should add i have 1 fawn/whit runner, 1 mystery (duck/duckling thats another question i have when do they become "ducks"?) and 1 cayuga.

 

[ZoeS95423]

runners, and a cayuga cant fly. And your mixed probably wont either.

 

[DuckLover2399]

I knew there were people out there following my birds! lol and the mixed? one i have been talking to a over of some buff runners and she said that my mixed look just like hers did at that age i think ideal mixed up the order and gave me a buff runner

 

[bibkel]

my Cayuga try to fly!

they are pretty heavy but they manage to get up on a shelf that is two feet up in the coop...I am now finding DUCK EGGS among the chicken eggs, LOL

 

[DuckLover2399]

Ok so none of my 9-10 week olds will fly over a Id say 5 foot fence

 

[ZoeS95423]

they shouldnt beable to, mine cant get higher that 2 inches off the ground. So yours shouldnt go to far. hah.

 

[evansacres]

Not sure about the runners/Cayugas but my rouen duck and drake manage to fly over a 4 foot fence - but only on rainy windy days (the wind usually has to be coming from the East!) I think that's the only way they get the momentum to get over the fence.

Of course, it might just be a plot for me to have to go running out in the wind and rain to get them back in and treats are normally used to coax them back

 

[newchickmom09]

"Domestic ducks can fly as good as bricks" is the best way to put it. My swedish can get about 1 1/2 to 2 feet off of the ground for about 5 to 8 feet. And that is at an all out running start.

Then there landing is priceless, it looks like a helocopter crash.

Yours are going to be about the same.