The Duck Thread

[MandyJ]

Thanks!

 

[MandyJ]

Premier 1 brooder plate all the way. I will never ever use infrared bulbs or ceramics again.

Anyone know about the brooder plate? Do you put it under the box?
Thanks!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Anyone know about the brooder plate? Do you put it under the box?
Thanks!

In the box with them... has adjustable legs to move it higher as they grow...

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thanks everyone. We buried Waffles under a tree today, which was no easy task with the ground frozen solid and snow covered. I'll miss her lots, but I think Potato will miss her more. He has 12 other ducks to socialize with, but he never cared much for them. He just loved his Waffles. I hope he can become ther close with another duck someday.

 

[Gone-Quackers]

I'll try my very hardest it get more females. The truth is it's very hard to get some. We are building a pen for out pot bellied pig in spring at can't get any more animals untill after May. Pot bellied pigs are a lot t handle and I'm not sure we can have ducklings in the house with our 6 cats already tempted by the many birds we have. I may be able to adopt a few older ones from lolypop farm but that's about my only option



You've all made me feel like a horrible person for keeping so many drakes with my females. I'm trying the best I can, I have a lot of other animals to take care of but ducks are my favorite and I always try to do what's best

I had the same issue. I had 7 hens and 5 drakes. I found 2 drakes a home with some lonely hens (unfortunately the new owner's dog killed them both so theirhens are lonely again). Then I added a friend's Pekin hen that needed a place to overwinter (her entire flock was killed by coons leaving her the sole survivor). So now I have 8 hens and 3 drakes although I am wondering if perhaps one of my drakes is in fact a hen as I'm only seeing 2 drakes with sex feathers. I may still have 1 drake too many or maybe not? I haven't had time to catch ducks to double check and not all drakes display their curly feather (they can lose them). I do miss the two drakes quite a bit but the hens are better off with less drakes. I am debating on building a second duck pen so I can separate out extra drakes next winter instead of selling them-- I use my ducks to train stockdogs and hens can't be worked heavily when in lay so right now I can't train as much as I'd like.

 

[PotatoWaffles]

I'm so sorry! Waffles is a great name though. Potato is like my Sam, she had a friend named Bob Johnson Chevrolet (don't ask) but when he died she never really "clicked" with any other duck for along time. She has finally made a friend in Freddie, one of my rouens

(Sam is not a male she is a mix)

She sure looks like a boy. She must cause the others boys such confusion lol. Very pretty though, glad she found a friend.

 

[MandyJ]

The thread is up for the 7th annual Easter hatch along.

Sorry, I'm new at this. What does this mean????

 

[caesargirl]

Sorry, I'm new at this. What does this mean????

It's a big bunch of BYCers that set eggs so that they're all going to hatch on Easter!

 

[caesargirl]

Sorry, I'm new at this. What does this mean????

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1074649/the-7th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long

 

[PotatoWaffles]

Potato has been doing alright. I'm glad to see he's not distancing himself from the others. He seems to taken a liking to the Pteroduckyl, my chocolate runner girl. I know he's mated her before, but he was always rather snappish towards her. Hopefully he can start being a gentleman to her like he was with Waffles.

Duckasaurus tried a little courting behavior on him

But he was clearly not interested. I hope she doesn't take the rejection personally, lol.