MALLARD THREAD...not rouens, Mallards!

[buff goose guy]

Getting these guys off their winter/juvenile diet, setting up a summer meal plan to shed those few unwanted pounds

 

[Kroelies]

I see a lot of fat drakes, the ladies are skinny. The drakes are losing their feathers too so I found a few curled tail feathers

 

[NathanZee]

Getting these guys off their winter/juvenile diet, setting up a summer meal plan to shed those few unwanted pounds

POUNDS? On usually 2.5 pound mallards?

What is your summer meal plan like? I let my mallards eat quite a bit, but they seem to fly it all off.

 

[buff goose guy]

Quote: Not necessarily pounds more like ounces! I said pounds for it to be more relevant of a joke. The heaviest of this group is the male at 3.0 pounds, the grey(normal) female weighs about 2.7 and , the melanistic female weighs 2.6 as of yesterday.

My summer meal plan is more vegetables and greens and cut out all corn and keep supplying the purina layena pellets, half a cup a day for each duck.

 

[NathanZee]

Not necessarily pounds more like ounces! I said pounds for it to be more relevant of a joke.

My summer meal plan is more vegetables and greens and cut out all corn and keep supplying the purina layena pellets, half a cup a day for each duck.

Haha, yeah I know. At least I hoped, because mallards with a extra pound would be in bad shape!

Sounds like a good healthy plan! What do your mallards weigh generally?

 

[buff goose guy]

Ohh my mallards usually weigh between 2.2 to 2.7 on average. I like to think anywhere from 2.3 to 2.6 is healthiest weight.

How are your lovely birds doing Nathan?

(sorry i keep editing the posts i forget to add something every time

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[EAWCinci]

They are happy! Donald and Hillary was 2 months old in that video. They're now 3 months old and Donald has changed a lot!!

 

[EAWCinci]

Sorry, my posts don't show up where I think they should.... This is the video I'm referring to above:

Donald and Hillary (and Lucky in the beginning):

 

[jessand2kevs]

These 2 hatched yesterday, any advice on how to tell male or female?

 

[buff goose guy]

You cannot tell male or female until their voices change/tail curls, unless you vent sex but the can be unsafe if not done by a experienced person.