MALLARD THREAD...not rouens, Mallards!

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NathanZee - Yes...all Mallard Drakes. Sorry for the late response...
Update on our duck adventure - we now currently have 5 Mallard Drakes, 1 Mallard Hen, 1 Male (black) Peeking Duck, 1- Female (white) peeking duck and for the past month have had over 20 male/female wood ducks every morning/evening...our pond has been busy...WOW, this has been an amazing sight watching the wood ducks come and go. I should mention, we have 5 wood duck boxes - 2 boxes have produced around 25 hatchlings (we were fortunate enough to be home and watch them, one by one, drop out and follow their mommas off to another pond or wherever she took them). Wish they would have stayed, but nature is uncontrollable. Afterwards, we checked the boxes and found 9 eggs in one box, 5 in the other. Waited to see if any females would return, but they didn't. So, we placed the eggs in an incubator...to our surprise, 5 hatched. 1 hatchling didn't make it, but the other 4 are doing good. 2 more boxes have female wood ducks inside constantly, fingers crossed for more hatchlings soon. As for the Mallards, we noticed the hen making a nest, a week later she has 5 eggs.
Oh my....for first timers, this is exciting and frightening at the same time. Each new day produces something new and exciting!
 
leighia2222 said:
NathanZee - Yes...all Mallard Drakes. Sorry for the late response...
Update on our duck adventure - we now currently have 5 Mallard Drakes, 1 Mallard Hen, 1 Male (black) Peeking Duck, 1- Female (white) peeking duck and for the past month have had over 20 male/female wood ducks every morning/evening...our pond has been busy...WOW, this has been an amazing sight watching the wood ducks come and go. I should mention, we have 5 wood duck boxes - 2 boxes have produced around 25 hatchlings (we were fortunate enough to be home and watch them, one by one, drop out and follow their mommas off to another pond or wherever she took them). Wish they would have stayed, but nature is uncontrollable. Afterwards, we checked the boxes and found 9 eggs in one box, 5 in the other. Waited to see if any females would return, but they didn't. So, we placed the eggs in an incubator...to our surprise, 5 hatched. 1 hatchling didn't make it, but the other 4 are doing good. 2 more boxes have female wood ducks inside constantly, fingers crossed for more hatchlings soon. As for the Mallards, we noticed the hen making a nest, a week later she has 5 eggs.
Oh my....for first timers, this is exciting and frightening at the same time. Each new day produces something new and exciting!
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Pekin ducks do not come in black(unless you can prove lineage) , you have a cayuga
 
NathanZee said:
That's great! Was it mallards that you got? 
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Sorry - learning how to work this site, lol...

NathanZee - Yes...all Mallard Drakes. Sorry for the late response...
Update on our duck adventure - we now currently have 5 Mallard Drakes, 1 Mallard Hen, 1 Male (black) Peeking Duck, 1- Female (white) peeking duck and for the past month have had over 20 male/female wood ducks every morning/evening...our pond has been busy...WOW, this has been an amazing sight watching the wood ducks come and go. I should mention, we have 5 wood duck boxes - 2 boxes have produced around 25 hatchlings (we were fortunate enough to be home and watch them, one by one, drop out and follow their mommas off to another pond or wherever she took them). Wish they would have stayed, but nature is uncontrollable. Afterwards, we checked the boxes and found 9 eggs in one box, 5 in the other. Waited to see if any females would return, but they didn't. So, we placed the eggs in an incubator...to our surprise, 5 hatched. 1 hatchling didn't make it, but the other 4 are doing good. 2 more boxes have female wood ducks inside constantly, fingers crossed for more hatchlings soon. As for the Mallards, we noticed the hen making a nest, a week later she has 5 eggs.
Oh my....for first timers, this is exciting and frightening at the same time. Each new day produces something new and exciting!
 
buff goose guy said:
Pekin ducks do not come in black(unless you can prove lineage) , you have a cayuga 
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Thanks for your reply.
We really don't know what kind of duck he is. Our neighbor's ducks (2 Peking (what we were told, black and white) and Mallard hen) came over around the new year and have made our pond their home. The black duck is the same size as the white one, but when the sun hits a certain way, he has a stunning green tent to his head and a blue feather (like mallards) under his wings. We feel he's a mix of something, doesn't bother us, he's beautiful.
 
leighia2222 said:
Sorry - learning how to work this site, lol...

NathanZee - Yes...all Mallard Drakes. Sorry for the late response...
Update on our duck adventure - we now currently have 5 Mallard Drakes, 1 Mallard Hen, 1 Male (black) Peeking Duck, 1- Female (white) peeking duck and for the past month have had over 20 male/female wood ducks every morning/evening...our pond has been busy...WOW, this has been an amazing sight watching the wood ducks come and go. I should mention, we have 5 wood duck boxes - 2 boxes have produced around 25 hatchlings (we were fortunate enough to be home and watch them, one by one, drop out and follow their mommas off to another pond or wherever she took them). Wish they would have stayed, but nature is uncontrollable. Afterwards, we checked the boxes and found 9 eggs in one box, 5 in the other. Waited to see if any females would return, but they didn't. So, we placed the eggs in an incubator...to our surprise, 5 hatched. 1 hatchling didn't make it, but the other 4 are doing good. 2 more boxes have female wood ducks inside constantly, fingers crossed for more hatchlings soon. As for the Mallards, we noticed the hen making a nest, a week later she has 5 eggs.
Oh my....for first timers, this is exciting and frightening at the same time. Each new day produces something new and exciting!
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That's okay! Are your hens doing okay with all those drakes? Could you post some pictures? I would love to see all the wood ducks and mallards and your domestic ones!
 
NathanZee said:
That's okay! Are your hens doing okay with all those drakes? Could you post some pictures? I would love to see all the wood ducks and mallards and your domestic ones! 
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We have noticed everything is acting different now. Really would like to give 3 of our 5 mallard drakes to someone who would take care of them. Unfortunately we don't know how to catch them. I'm sure we'll figure out a way, being this morning we now have 6 mallard eggs. I've read how the drakes will kill baby ducks no matter what breed they are, is that true?
Here are a few pics I have on my cell phone of all our ducks...sorry, some images are of a picture of my digital camera viewer screen, wood ducks don't let us get too close
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Not sure if all the pics loaded properly...
Will take more today
 
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the others our very late. I well give tell Sunday and put them to rest. We got the ok from neighbor on a ant issue to put traps down. On her side of the wall bug killer and weed killer. So maybe next hatch will look better
 

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