Research Reading

[Duck Hill]

This thread is to post websites, articles, and other references about all aspects of ducks. This will be helpful as the number of duck books in local libraries is always limited.

 

[Duck Hill]

Hatching issues:

This article covers a number of reasons that eggs may hatch poorly at various stages of development. Includes the effects of various vitamin/mineral deficiencies.

http://farm.com.np/articles/58

 

[Duck Hill]

This article says that when ducks eat fish eggs, a few of the eggs may still be viable when pooped out. This can spread fish to new lakes and habitats.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fish-eggs-can-hatch-after-being-eaten-pooped-out-ducks

 

[416bigbore]

This thread is to post websites, articles, and other references about all aspects of ducks. This will be helpful as the number of duck books in local libraries is always limited.

It's sad to say, Libraries are on the endangered list because of the super information highway, Internet.

 

[416bigbore]

This article says that when ducks eat fish eggs, a few of the eggs may still be viable when pooped out. This can spread fish to new lakes and habitats.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fish-eggs-can-hatch-after-being-eaten-pooped-out-ducks

Interesting article, I would have never guessed that to be a possibility.

 

[Duck Hill]

This article talks about how well ducks see, including movement, shine, and ultraviolet.

https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/m..._4-mkjnffbf1uFzn1CTkg0rNo2z0OeR8W0fxOvcR0C07Y

 

[igorsMistress]

This article says that when ducks eat fish eggs, a few of the eggs may still be viable when pooped out. This can spread fish to new lakes and habitats.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fish-eggs-can-hatch-after-being-eaten-pooped-out-ducks

That’s interesting!

 

[igorsMistress]

This article talks about how well ducks see, including movement, shine, and ultraviolet.

https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/m..._4-mkjnffbf1uFzn1CTkg0rNo2z0OeR8W0fxOvcR0C07Y

Also interesting. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Duck Hill]

This article talks about what diseases wild geese and swans can spread to backyard flocks.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar...Z7jAfuH3Bnj92Bn8KmfXI4HVSoxzv8#__ffn_sectitle

 

[Ratchnick]

Sticky please