Our new Avairy

[kangababy]

Well so I thought I had posted pictures of it being finished...

Wood Ducks and Mandarins

Silver Wood Duck Drakes and a pair of ring teal

White Face Tree Ducks

Bahama Pintails (regular and silver) Cape teal in the back

Little bit of everything

Ruddy Duck

Hooded Mergansser

Barrows Goldeye

Bufflehead Drake

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Now if I were a duck, that is where I would want to live! How beautiful!

 

[gofasterstripe]

OH MY GOD!!!!

I didnt know there were such pretty little ducks out there.
You have a beautiful place there. Thanks for shareing photos of your beautiful ducks

 

[Sumatra503]

When I was thinking Aviary I wasn't thinking that huge!. That has to be the most amazing Aviary i've ever seen.

Do you by chance sell eggs or chicks?

 

[kangababy]

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Thanks!!!

About the eggs and chicks.. I don;t know of any breeder that sells eggs or chicks.. for the ornamental waterfowl if you want to keep them ou need to do alot of research. They are nothing like the mallards, buff, penkin, ect type ducks. They typically only lay between 6-10 eggs a year and some can be very hard to raise. There would be no way to ship the baby ducklings until they were 6-8 weeks old and at that age you might know what you are getting as far as male and female. Most breeders sex their birds at 8-10 weeks of age or older, but you can still get that wrong. As far as eggs.. they do not do good in an incubator. Breeders either use broody chickens (cochins and silkier) or they use call ducks. Some breeders have lucj with letting the mothers sit on them for 7-14 days and then putting them in an incubator. I know of one breeder here who sells eggs to those who really want to buy them but you are talking anywhere from $20+ for just one egg depending on the breed. Also alot of the perching ducks (wood ducks and mandarins) are known for dumping eggs.. This is where they all like to lay in one or two boxes so in that case you wouldn;t know what breed of duck you are getting if you are luckily enough to have them hatch.. my suggestion is if you want to ornamental ducks is do you research, get your aviary set up and then find a good breeder and get you a pair or two depending on the size of your aviary. the wood ducks/mandarin would so okay in a 10X10 with a pool of some kind.

 

[Jefffff]

That's your "yard"?? Wow!! It's tremendous. Your aviary (love it and your birds) is probably twice the size of my front yard, house and back yard combined. How beautiful it must be to have such space/scenery.

 

[ADozenGirlz]

WOW!

Spectacular! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[PrinceSandwich]

AMAZING!!

 

[Dr. Todd]

Wonderful looking aviary, congratulations.

Dr. Todd

 

[MinxFox]

Wow you sure do have a lot of pretty ducks! May I ask where you got your netting from?