Hello! Very recently we have hatched a duck for a friend, it's a regular silver appleyard and we were sort of using it as a test to see if we wanted to raise more and add some ducks to our flock. We have mainly encountered one issue, which is size. When things get bigger they eat more and poop more and take up more space, and being just a smaller person, having smaller ducks would be a lot more manageable.
I've been looking into duck breeds and checking what we have locally, but with the bantams and mini's I've noticed that they can just fly away.
Do all small ducks need their wings clipped? (or put into an enclosed area) or is that just the flighty ones? Would a more tame duck not fly away?
And if anyone has an advice for breeds that'd be wonderful! Nearby we have people that raise call ducks but I did find about 3 hours away someone who has mini silver appleyards, ducklings and hatching eggs, would either of those be better than the other?
I've been looking into duck breeds and checking what we have locally, but with the bantams and mini's I've noticed that they can just fly away.
Do all small ducks need their wings clipped? (or put into an enclosed area) or is that just the flighty ones? Would a more tame duck not fly away?
And if anyone has an advice for breeds that'd be wonderful! Nearby we have people that raise call ducks but I did find about 3 hours away someone who has mini silver appleyards, ducklings and hatching eggs, would either of those be better than the other?