Hi from Cape Cod

[Redsquirrel]

Welcome to BYC,
Glad to have you here

Don't have ducks, but if you a search you will find some answers

 

[hearthnsoul]

Thank you all for the nice greeting and Oh my goodness we are everywhere!!!
Such great advice, but too late. In one week I managed to bring home first tentatively 6 baby chicks,..the next day I snuck off and brought home three more,..my husband asked,..I feigned stupidity and said geez they must be multiplying,..two days later I went on the quest for three little duckling and managed to come home with six today! I swear that's it!!! No patridge in a pear tree,..no three little pigs,.. although I must confess I think my husband is having me followed ...

 

[NewHopePoultry]

from Missouri

 

[Cats Critters]

 

[sunnyside upside down]

welcome aboard...what part of cape cod are you from?
I grew up here and I'll probably die here too

Courtney

 

[froggie71]

and

from NJ. If you are brooding them together, beware that ducks like to get everything wet fairly quickly. Don't want anybody getting too wet and cold. Also, I don't know the breeds you got, but the larger ducks such as pekins or swedish tend to grow rapidly and will be much larger than the chicks soon. Good luck. They are lots of fun.

 

[hearthnsoul]

Courtney, I am in osterville, same here I love the cape, can't ever imagine living anywhere but (tried it for a year and cried til I got back home, cape codders are cape codders) What village are you in?
Froggie, the ducks I ended up getting are mutts, pekin/runner/rouen. They are beautiful and such personalities,..all so different. I decided not to house together with the chicks because of the feed. We built another breeder and quickly found out how messy they were. So I rummaged around and found a rubber cement mixer pan for all out duck madness,..they go in there with food to one side and bottle drip water feeder and it looks like a bunch of kids in a frenzy at a munipal pool. When they are tuckered out I then put them back in the brooder nice and warm, food in a little pan with two 2 water bottles with a cut out for their heads to pop in to get some water and the most one of them can manage is to dip a leg in. No mess in the brooder amazing!!!
Funny how one night with the little rascals can be so enlightening. They all have such different personalities too,..so funny I have one that is like felix unger,..which is shocking,..so neat and clean, the rest holy moly, messy messy,..one is an escape artist, one runs the roost, one so sweet I named him/her apple, as well one is more of a pig than the rest and as well doesn't have much use for me,..at least not yet!
I am loving this,..can you tell...?!

 

[lunkerchicken]

- I'm from Cape Cod as well! (Sandwich). Sounds like you have quite a collection going down there in Osterville! Welcome aboard - it is awesome here, so many nice people, so much great advice.

 

[sunnyside upside down]

I was born in Falmouth but just bought a house in Forestdale
It's pretty amazing to see and hear about how so many of us cape codders are raising chickens. The neighborhood I moved to everyone has chickens...it's great!

 

[mullers3acers]