SWEDISH Duck Thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WVduckchick]

I agree with pattyhen! What a cutie!

 

[HnkyDnkyZZFarm]

Her Dignified Ladyship, Mudduck. This is a rare picture where she doesn't have a ball of mud on her beak from digging. <3 ducky love. both she and her sister are laying, but not sitting and there are no disks on the eggs so I'm thinking Pastors going slow and getting to know them respectfully for their true selves rather than racing towards relations..

 

[room onthebroom]

Yay! A Swedish thread. I have a Swedish Blue, the Lovely Miss Mako Mori. We went to the feed store looking for a companion chicken to keep my Brahama company & walked out with a duck. It was a true love story about a lonely chicken that had out lived her senior flock mates & a lonely duck that had sat in a cage all by herself for weeks waiting for us to accidentally stumble upon her. We'd never had a duck before, but she was begging us to save her, so we did a few quick internet searches on the phone to make sure we knew the basics & brought her home. Mako & Hope became very fast friends. She is by far the funniest animal I've ever had, plus a super layer & bug hunting extraordinaire. Why do Sweds never seem to be featured on the duck home page... Maybe they are & I'm just missing it?


Miss Mako Mori

 

[room onthebroom]

Her Dignified Ladyship, Mudduck. This is a rare picture where she doesn't have a ball of mud on her beak from digging. <3 ducky love. both she and her sister are laying, but not sitting and there are no disks on the eggs so I'm thinking Pastors going slow and getting to know them respectfully for their true selves rather than racing towards relations..

Lady Mudduck is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! We heard that ducks are known to drop their eggs around the yard, so we were surprised to find that Mako (rhymes with taco) lays hers in a nesting box first thing every morning.

Question; Where does everybody's ducks lay & is it always around the same time?

 

[WVduckchick]

Lady Mudduck is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! We heard that ducks are known to drop their eggs around the yard, so we were surprised to find that Mako (rhymes with taco) lays hers in a nesting box first thing every morning.

Question; Where does everybody's ducks lay & is it always around the same time?

Mine has only been laying since last July, but it has always been before daylight. She will lay in the same place for several days, up to a couple of weeks, then she picks a new spot. So I guess you could say she has a few nesting spots.

 

[HnkyDnkyZZFarm]

Lady Mudduck is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! We heard that ducks are known to drop their eggs around the yard, so we were surprised to find that Mako (rhymes with taco) lays hers in a nesting box first thing every morning.

Question; Where does everybody's ducks lay & is it always around the same time?

I go on ducky egg hunts daily They have a few spots they like, one in the bottom of the coop, dug down in the dirt and filled in with hay to about a foot deep, and the chickens are wanting to lay in that one as well, a second mud nest (mudduck is that you at work! lol) where they will lay if I've been collecting the eggs daily, about 6" deep between some water tanks and under a tarp, and the laying around spot by the rabbits sometimes gets a whoops egg.

The first few eggs were utterly random, just laying around the yard. Some next to the pool, some in the hay, just laying out.

I think they're mid-morning to early afternoon about 5 days a week. Sometimes I leave the eggs for my neighbor to collect. You can only have so many duck eggs before you start to wonder what to do with them all. We had a disc on an egg two days ago, so that's promising. I want to wait till it gets a little warmer and for the girls to be showing some impulse to sit them before I leave them lest the chickens get any bad egg habits.

 

[Hayden W]

I have two swedes and two Muscovy ducks (one is a drake) I saw my drake Muscovy trying to mate with one of my swedes, if he succeeded will the eggs be fertile and hatch?

 

[Hayden W]

I had a clutch of eggs hatch what look like Swedish ducks, black with white bibs.  they are 7 weeks old.  I'm wondering how to tell the difference between hens & drakes.  Is it the tail thing, or the color bills, or heads?  Thanks!

As they get older one of the tail feathers will curl. If the beak is green it's probably a Drake. If their voice is low and raspy it's probably a drake.

 

[Tevyes Dad]

As they get older one of the tail feathers will curl. If the beak is green it's probably a Drake. If their voice is low and raspy it's probably a drake.

Darn us people with drakes... We know what we are talking about with the low and raspy thing, but I can remember when I first got my ducks I thought half of them were drakes from this description because I also didn't know the huge amount of vocalizations ducks can make, some of which sound raspy (but nothing like a drake) and they all start with peeping... So I got some help from my boys and put this up today

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1073315/voice-sexing-your-mallard-derivative-duck

 

[Hayden W]

I now know for sure that my muscovy drake is mating with my Swedish female because I just saw it happen. Is this bad? she is only 4 1/2 months old, but she is laying.