One duck won't swim

[siobhan89]

I have 2 ducks and just recently the larger of the 2 doesn't like the water anymore if it means they have to swim. S/He is fine if it's just standing in it but any deeoer and it goes into deep sort of panic mode and jumps out/ What can do as the other one is fine and this one always used to be too but over the last week or 2 has changed

 

[ozark hen]

what kind of "water" are you talking about? A pond? if so the only thing I can think of is that something tried to get it...like a turtle perhaps? If a kiddie pool then I have no idea unless it was a reflection of something? Strange isn't it?

 

[Kevin565]

It defiantly sounds like something could have spooked them in the water. However, some ducks just don't like swimming as much as others. I've had a few that would avoid swimming with the others at all costs.

 

[siobhan89]

I live in the UK so we don't see many turtles around here

It's a paddling pool but he's the same in the bath and even when i'm sat out there with them

 

[keyt1969]

Like Kevin said, some ducks just don't like to swim. I've had quite a few that avoid the water for a while, but eventually they will go back in. Although I've had a bantam call duck that avoided water for quite a while because other ducks would pick on him when he would go in. He stopped using the pool so I had to take him out every once in a while to clean his wings. I now have him and 2 of his friends in their own little run with their own coop and he now spends all day in the pool!

 

[Going Quackers]

Some just don't like to swim, my one drake(the oldest) rarely ever goes into the pools.. he just doesn't like too, i have a duck that is the same whereas i have some who climb into the water bowls.