Show off your house ducks!

[tracyjg]

I don't think that's neglect . You have to have a job. You have to sleep. You have to go get feed and food for you and your family. He is safe warm has food and water and is being taken care of. People do that with dogs and cats why they have to be away taken care of household. Don't let anyone tell you that your not good to your duck or other pets.

 

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[tracyjg]

Mine our in there outside coop and there happy. They prefer to be left alone. They have 8 chickens hen to socialize with. There happy and cared for.

 

[Amykins]

I don't think that's neglect . You have to have a job. You have to sleep. You have to go get feed and food for you and your family. He is safe warm has food and water and is being taken care of. People do that with dogs and cats why they have to be away taken care of household. Don't let anyone tell you that your not good to your duck or other pets.

Dogs and cats are not ducks. They are flock animals. They need a friend. To deny them that is cruelty, even if it's the last thing you ever wanted to inflict on your precious baby birb. It's a lesson I had to learn the hard way.

 

[AxolotlLove]

Dogs and cats are not ducks. They are flock animals. They need a friend. To deny them that is cruelty, even if it's the last thing you ever wanted to inflict on your precious baby birb. It's a lesson I had to learn the hard way. 

I have to agree, ducks are not cats or dogs, even if they do live in the house. Cats and dogs are "meant" to be house pets, and are domesticated. Ducks need a flock mate. They need someone to socialize with. Luda seems very happy with her owner and that is probably because she is with someone most of her day. If Luda was hatched singly by her owner, that would be completely different than having taken a duck away from a flock. A friend of a family member had a duck that lived many years being singly hatched by him. He was an indoor/outdoor duck, and made friends with a roadrunner and played with him everyday. Ducks that are singly hatched don't need another duck, they will be happy and fine with their human owners

 

[AxolotlLove]

Mine our in there outside coop and there happy. They prefer to be left alone. They have 8 chickens hen to socialize with. There happy and cared for.

Your 2 ducks will get bossed around and get their food taken away by 8 chickens. I had housed only 1 of my 40 chickens (7 are jungle fowl) with 9 of my ducks for the winter because I had to many chickens in all the coops, and she stole all the ducks food and wouldn't let them go in their duck house. Do Eithen and Hope have their own pen? Because I wouldn't let them live with the hens, especially if you have roosters, one of my roosters tried mating my female pekin

 

[Julie Birb]

I think you have the wrong idea, Luda is a very loved, happy, healthy and social duck. He has access to the whole house, yard, pool etc. yes he sleeps in the laundry but that is part of our house and is not shut up.. He is happy to go nest in there every night and takes himself to bed generally. The only other time he is alone is work which I do casually so it's not "for so long every day" and when no ones home he is outside in his spacious pen, digging in the dirt for the worms, eating grass, swimming. He enjoys being out there. It makes me feel awful to think that I would ever neglect my feathery friend!

Eeeee, hoopoose sweet Luda digs for wurmms.