Overwintering my duck

[Huey2024]

Hi everyone! I need help.. we he have a large one acre pond and a large flightless domestic duck that has showed up. He is beautiful but seems lonely. He tries so hard to fly!
My husband and I know nothing about ducks and am concerned about how he will fair overwinter. We are looking info here! We live on 5 acres… plenty of predators here…

 

[N F C]

Hello, if you post on the Ducks forum I'm sure you'll get lots of good info: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/ducks.42/

Thanks for joining us & good luck with the duck!

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.

 

[Kenneth Zweerink]

Welcome to BackYard Chickens, And a Big Hello from Eastern Nebraska! Will the Pond Freeze over ? If It doesn't the Duck will be Ok, If It does you'll have to Build a Duck House and take care of him through the Winter. Or you could catch him and find him a Good Home with other Duck's. Thank's for sharing the picture's he's a Beautiful Duck! The Best of Luck with him.

 

[Debbie292d]

Hiya, and welcome to BYC!

Ducks mostly only need protection from the elements, so something like that in your picture would work well. It appears that's hardware cloth so it would protect him from predators at night, if he'll go in there every night.

 

[Jener8or]

Your duck is beautiful! I hope you can gather some good information here and get him all set up to overwinter. Welcome to BackYard Chickens!

 

[janiedoe]

Welcome to BYC. He is very pretty, and its kind of you to look out for him.

 

[TwoCrows]

Hello and welcome to BYC!

I don't know much about Ducks other than I love the quacking. Definitely follow the link to our Duck forum tha @N F C has left for you above for more help.

Welcome to our community!

 

[007Sean]

Howdy, and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[sourland]

Hello, and welcome to BYC. Good luck in providing a safe winter coop/pen for your duck.