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I'm pretty new to ducks so I don't have anything really specific but my Cayuga LOVES her pool and will climb fully into her pool very chance she gets. When she is eating she will take a scoop of food, run to the pool and climb in, drink some water, get out of the pool and go back to the food and then do it all over again. The two Welsh Harlequins will just go to the edge of the pool and drink from the side but not Sonia!
 
Foolishly I left my beer unattended and decided to fiddle around in the garden - a few minutes later I notice the ducks are not following me and turn around to see the six of them happily dabbling in a puddle of spilled beer (Ein I know it was you that knocked it over you table top snatching delinquent)

google is totally judging me for searching "how much beer can ducks drink" :rolleyes:
 
My drake, Opie, hates dogs. He's a cayuga-pekin cross, probably 8 pounds, with a gimp knee. The dog is a 50 pound labradoodle. She's TERRIFIED of him.

One day I let her out because I didn't see him around and she starts barking for no reason (her fault), and after a few minutes I can hear the 'wack wack' of Opie and the loud quacking of the females as he rounds the corner. The dog notices him and immediately begins to run to the deck. I follow her, walking, because a gimpy drake surely can't get to her before I do.

He starts RUNNING - full on running, flapping his wings to propel himself forward. He lunges up at the deck while I'm running past him to get the door open to let the dog in, and of course, she's sitting right in front of the outward swinging door. Opie's caught up, and I'm trying to move the dog, open the door, AND hold him back at the same time.

He manages to lunge through my legs and hand and grabs a hold of the skin just over her tail, just as I get the door open. She immediately tries to run in and he is hanging on to his hold on her butt and gets pulled into the house. I'm trying to pry his bill open and the dog is freaking out and yelping and he's flapping his wings like crazy. I eventually pull him off but he takes a good clump of fur with him and push him back out the door.

In typical quacker fashion, he squirted on the floor just before I could get him out. :th

I have many stories of him attacking the dog... he's a little dog hating butt!
 
These stories are great :lau

My duck tales begin with ... I'd never thought or planned on ducks! As soon as we moved onto our property we got chickens and a second dog (he was a birthday surprise for me, I wasn't planning on another one lol) .. no other plans at this point. So my super animal lover husband (whom works in the pet/animal/farm etc industry) comes home one day and I hear weird sounds coming from his car.. I'm thinking ** insert chosen expletives ** and thoroughly confused. He's just smiling over by the front door waiting for me to open the car .. once I do I see this large cage with two fully grown and equally dirty possibly malnutritoned (sp??) ducks who look terrified:hit immediately I fall in love and have to ask a million questions. Once I get the story out of him, my brain starts scrambling as to how I'm going to help these poor babies. Story goes.. He's at one of his stores, lady pulls up in front (not parking space, in font of the back/delivery door) pulls cage out of trunk, sets in on the ground with no words spoken to anyone and takes off... what's a person to do.. he jumps at the chance to get these ducks home, safe, and taken care of. Neither of us have any experience but thats not going to stop us from learning. I didn't realize you could tell their emotions by looking at them but you definitely can. We got them set up, it took a couple days for them to relax and only a couple more for them to become fullly integrated into our flock of 10 chickens, 2 dogs, 3 kids and us, 2 grown kids masquerading as responsible adults :gig. Fast forward .. we end up with two more ducks, what we thought we females but they we're not.. now we've got babies :love . Our first 2 ladies have passed but their little ducks are still with us. They have become best friends with our border collie - Bandon. They all play together until bandon decides it's time to "herd" them anywhere and everywhere.. they just follow her and nap under the porch while she "herds" the hens or my kids. Sometimes she herds the ducks into the house and I get to clean up the poop.. yay :th

Next we're going to incubate some duck eggs and add more to the flock! I can't wait for more babies:ya
 

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