need help

[liamedson]

Color pattern. They look different only because one is paler than the other but they both have male color patterns not found in females of any breed of duck.

good to know, now iv got to go look at the closer

 

[Miss Lydia]

How old are your ducks @liamedson I don't see the drake curl tail feather.

 

[liamedson]

How old are your ducks @liamedson I don't see the drake curl tail feather.

I have no idea

 

[Miss Lydia]

The one closest does look like a drake can you post some really nice pics on your thread here so we can really see them good?

They are beautiful ducks.

 

[liamedson]

The one closest does look like a drake can you post some really nice pics on your thread here so we can really see them good?

They are beautiful ducks.

these should be better. the green head one is on a roof he decided to go for a morning fog flight and i think may be stuck now.

 

[Miss Lydia]

They are both drakes and gorgeous pics. I doubt he's stuck they fly too well.

Someone had too many drakes I think and decided to dump them. You maybe able to tame them with dried meal worms I swear my birds would do a song and dance for them.

 

[WVduckchick]

I'm kinda a "black sheep" around here - unconventional duck keeper. One set of my drakes (large Swedish breed) live on my pond at my farm. They have a brushy cove in one corner of the pond, they can swim under, with 2 entrance/exits - one in the water, one on land. They don't have a "house" and they don't get locked up at night. I do not clip wings. We do have some predators around, and yes, I have lost a few (not many) ducks over the past 3 years, but I feed them, and we keep the area around the pond weeds cut back, and they seem quite happy, and they know it is home, so they stay.

I also have call ducks at my house. They have a huge fenced/net-covered run, but they also do not get locked up at night. The girls use their house for laying, and maybe someday, for brooding!

Call ducks can fly very well. Have you seen these 2 ducks flying? Be careful how forceful you are with them. Let them come to you, or you may permanently run them off. Giving them a "safe retreat" place will be nice for them, but unless they were handled a lot as youngsters, they will be very hard for you to fully tame. Just getting them to come to you for treats will be hard enough. Touching them may never happen. My pond ducks know me and come running to me, but will no longer eat out of my hand. 2-3 feet is about their limit.

Best of luck!

 

[liamedson]

They are both drakes and gorgeous pics. I doubt he's stuck they fly too well.

Someone had too many drakes I think and decided to dump them. You maybe able to tame them with dried meal worms I swear my birds would do a song and dance for them.

thank you. I just got them back together and yea they fly really well. i will try the dried meal worms.

I'm kinda a "black sheep" around here - unconventional duck keeper. One set of my drakes (large Swedish breed) live on my pond at my farm. They have a brushy cove in one corner of the pond, they can swim under, with 2 entrance/exits - one in the water, one on land. They don't have a "house" and they don't get locked up at night. I do not clip wings. We do have some predators around, and yes, I have lost a few (not many) ducks over the past 3 years, but I feed them, and we keep the area around the pond weeds cut back, and they seem quite happy, and they know it is home, so they stay.

I also have call ducks at my house. They have a huge fenced/net-covered run, but they also do not get locked up at night. The girls use their house for laying, and maybe someday, for brooding!

Call ducks can fly very well. Have you seen these 2 ducks flying? Be careful how forceful you are with them. Let them come to you, or you may permanently run them off. Giving them a "safe retreat" place will be nice for them, but unless they were handled a lot as youngsters, they will be very hard for you to fully tame. Just getting them to come to you for treats will be hard enough. Touching them may never happen. My pond ducks know me and come running to me, but will no longer eat out of my hand. 2-3 feet is about their limit.

Best of luck!

that sounds like my lake, i did make a house for them just in case.
today was the first day i have seen them fly. as for forceful i just go sit in one of my lakeside chairs and talk to them and toss a treat to them here and there otherwise i just watch them. If they get to the point where i can touch them that would be great but if not im ok with that as well.

 

[WVduckchick]

thank you. I just got them back together and yea they fly really well. i will try the dried meal worms.



that sounds like my lake, i did make a house for them just in case.
today was the first day i have seen them fly. as for forceful i just go sit in one of my lakeside chairs and talk to them and toss a treat to them here and there otherwise i just watch them. If they get to the point where i can touch them that would be great but if not im ok with that as well.

Awesome! Aren't they beautiful to just sit and watch? I enjoy it very much. Sounds like they will be much happier with you than with the twit that dumped them anyway.

 

[liamedson]

Awesome! Aren't they beautiful to just sit and watch? I enjoy it very much. Sounds like they will be much happier with you than with the twit that dumped them anyway.

o its amazing i wish i had known years ago i would have gotten some before. i have seen that they are much happier here now then when they arrived.