Help identifying my ducks please.

[Steleona]

Here is one picture

 

[Steleona]

Here is another picture

 

[Miss Lydia]

I vote for silver and gorgeous Runners.

Beautiful KC too. and Rouen too

 

[Steleona]

I vote for silver and gorgeous Runners.

Beautiful KC too. and Rouen too

Thank you. We have a blue wyondotte hen living with them. She kept getting out of the run and hanging around the ducks so we put her in with the ducks and they are doing great together. The hen identifies as a duck

 

[Miss Lydia]

lol Bless her heart. If you have any drakes though it's really best once the ducks are breeding age to keep drakes away from chicken hens because they may try and breed with them and they are not anatomically made to mate. It can be a death sentence for a hen.

 

[Steleona]

lol Bless her heart. If you have any drakes though it's really best once the ducks are breeding age to keep drakes away from chicken hens because they may try and breed with them and they are not anatomically made to mate. It can be a death sentence for a hen.

Thank you for the advice. We lost our 2 drakes. 4th of July we woke up to a massacre. 5 out of 7 ducks got killed or were left for dead and died later. Very upsetting. They were about a month old. How the 2 that remained survived is a mystery. But our girls took to the new babies no problem. It was like they hatched them.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Do you close them up securely at night? Mine might last a few days out over night but probably not much longer.

 

[Steleona]

Do you close them up securely at night? Mine might last a few days out over night but probably not much longer.

We have them in an old dog kennel. Its about 8ft high. After that incident we covered it with netting.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I’d also wrap the entire kennel in hardware cloth. 1/4” because if like mine they love to lay up against the fencing and raccoons are notorious for reaching in and trying to pull a duck through fencing. Be sure to secure the netting down real close so nothing can climb under.

 

[Steleona]

I’d also wrap the entire kennel in hardware cloth. 1/4” because if like mine they love to lay up against the fencing and raccoons are notorious for reaching in and trying to pull a duck through fencing. Be sure to secure the netting down real close so nothing can climb under.

We wrapped the bottom with chicken wire and secured everything with metal wire