Loud Quacking

[Howard-the-Duck]

Do your ducks ever get loud? You know, like they all quack in concert?
I have Rouens, Welsh Harlequin, and white layers.
Every now and then, quack... quack.... Quack, QUACK!!!!!!!!!
All at once. Kinda funny, actually.

 

[Amiga]

When their duck mama doesn't keep the food bowl full, when they are bored and they know I am home and they want to go for a walk.

 

[Smurfbrew]

It doesn't seem like she's freaking out. It's seems more of an excitement thing. And since she's been hunching it's much easier to pick her up for a cuddle. I have noticed she's got bumblefoot on one of her feet in the early stages, could this be an influence?

Maybe. I've haven't had to deal with bumblefoot yet, thankfully. Or it could be excitement like you say. Maybe she's saying pick me up!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Does anyone have any cures for bumblefoot? Is in early stages. Not turned black yet. I'd like to avoid another foot op if possible.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/807777/bumblefoot-new-ideas-on-treatment-with-pictures warm soaks in Epsom salt water [don't let the duck drink the water it is also a laxative] after soaking dry and apply [colorless] iodine [Walmart, CVS.] soak every day apply colorless iodine every 3 days till you can pull off the scab or bumble is healed.

 

[smonkeySK]

Yep I get the multi-quack too. Usually while I'm trying to slip by unseen - being seen results in noise from the ducks and guilt for me until I mealworm them up!

 

[Howard-the-Duck]

Funny thing is, their food bowls are full, yet still the quacking.
At first, I thought they were hungry, but no. They have food.
It must be they want to call attention.
And their quack rings with such authority...
demanding my presence, as it were.
Such ducks!

 

[Going Quackers]

yes, happy ducks are chatty. I have some of the loudest breeds going( i must be insane lol) my calls and pekin and those buffs(oye!) but i don't see it as concerning most times it literately is happy talk, only on occasion is the voice a concerned one, like one pekin female got lost the other day she was quacking enough to wake the dead, we helped her relocate the flock.

Some breeds are just quiet, my Muscovy for instance, if a lady starting honking i'd be running to see what was wrong, they just don't use that voice much.

 

[sunnyfishy]

First thing in the morning, when I go out to feed them and let them out, as soon as they hear me coming, QUAAAAACK wonk wonk wonk. So cute

I can even tell my mallard from the pekin and ancona females--it's easily one of my favorite part about having ducks. That chattiness is just so heartwarming and adorable, especially when they're eating and talking first thing out of the pen in the morning. And we have a lot of land and 3 cliques of ducks, so when they're looking for each other you hear hilarious calls too.

 

[hennible]

My girls are extremely noisy.... Seems like it's at random, but I'm not very duck savvy and likely just missing the why to all the noise. Fresh pond water always stirs up some crazy noise and everyone runs a muck and they have a pool party

 

[Miss Lydia]

My girls are extremely noisy.... Seems like it's at random, but I'm not very duck savvy and likely just missing the why to all the noise. Fresh pond water always stirs up some crazy noise and everyone runs a muck and they have a pool party