So, I used to have 4 pekin ducks around 2015 that sadly only made it to see 2018. 4 ducks, 3 different predators. I raised them from ducklings and was getting eggs from the 2 females I ended having. Mr. Bubbles, Apollo, Pax, & Swerve. A little scared of me, but still very sweet and stubborn. They would come running at the sound of me hitting the bottom of their food pan like a tambourine and follow me — quacking — the entire way back to their duck house when it was bedtime.
Eventually when I started college, it seemed like they started to get picked off. Pax and Swerve both at the same time by coyotes; in broad daylight, no less. Apollo by either a bobcat or fox around dusk and Mr. Bubbles by a raccoon during the night after he refused to get out of the neighbor’s pond when called for.
i still miss them, i was really hoping i’d still have them.
anyways, last Monday i was at TSC getting chicken food and they had some assorted ducklings left over and selling them for a $1 each. So....I went to TSC for feed and came back with more responsibility, haha.
my guess is they were already close to a week old when i bought them, so they should be 2 weeks and some odd days as of 9/11.
the point of this thread is to document barbosa, drago, quackerton, & pidge’s growth and my second go at raising ducks. hopefully i end up with 3 females and 1 male this time.
Eventually when I started college, it seemed like they started to get picked off. Pax and Swerve both at the same time by coyotes; in broad daylight, no less. Apollo by either a bobcat or fox around dusk and Mr. Bubbles by a raccoon during the night after he refused to get out of the neighbor’s pond when called for.
i still miss them, i was really hoping i’d still have them.
anyways, last Monday i was at TSC getting chicken food and they had some assorted ducklings left over and selling them for a $1 each. So....I went to TSC for feed and came back with more responsibility, haha.
my guess is they were already close to a week old when i bought them, so they should be 2 weeks and some odd days as of 9/11.
the point of this thread is to document barbosa, drago, quackerton, & pidge’s growth and my second go at raising ducks. hopefully i end up with 3 females and 1 male this time.
