The Duck Thread

[Ravynscroft]

Here is a video of Merlin!

Adorable little Merlin! So glad he is doing better!

Merlin is so funny! So when he runs out of water he quacks for me or jumps out of his bin and comes to my bed and wakes me up in the morning! Well, this evening my family and I were watching a movie, and we all hear loud quacking from the kitchen. So I go to pick him up and bring him back to my room....and what do you know he was out of water! He was trying to find me so I could give him more water.

Smart boy! Most people are surprised when I explain their intelligence is much like a dogs, yet there it is...

 

[QuackSpeak]

Duck have a lot more than feathers for brains!

Plus they are adorable. And it is impossible to not love a duck.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That's just precious!

X2

 

[MandyJ]

Question on feed for ducks, please. I have 5 hens (2 1.5 years old, 3 6 months) no one is laying at this time. The young ones haven't started laying yet the others stopped for molting and haven't started up again.

I am feeding them Purina flock raiser crumbles with calcium chips added. Can I change them over to the layer pellets with the calcium added? I am having a lot of waste with the crumbles, someone suggested that I go to the pellets. The bag of pellets doesn't say that you can use it with ducks like the crumbles does, so I wasn't sure. I also add a handful of scratch to their feed as a "treat".

Thanks for any information!
Mandy

 

[Tevyes Dad]

Duck have a lot more than feathers for brains!

Plus they are adorable. And it is impossible to not love a duck.

Except for my Noir... She just has feathers for brains.

It is a testament to duck intelligence that she stands out as being such an air-head, but there it is. Fortunately she is very sweet and we love her just the same, and she has 14 other flock members who all know how to open the feeder so she doesn't starve.

 

[QuackSpeak]

Except for my Noir... She just has feathers for brains.

It is a testament to duck intelligence that she stands out as being such an air-head, but there it is. Fortunately she is very sweet and we love her just the same, and she has 14 other flock members who all know how to open the feeder so she doesn't starve.

Noir sounds like an interesting duckie! I've never heard of one that couldn't figure out how to get to food

but it is cute that she depends on her flock like that. Also, maybe life threatening lol

 

[Tevyes Dad]

Noir sounds like an interesting duckie! I've never had one that couldn't figure out how to get to food

but it is cute that she depends on her flock like that. Also, maybe life threatening lol

She eats plenty. But instead of learning (like all the other ducks) that if she steps on the plate the feeder opens, she learned that if someducky else goes to the feeder, it will probably open.

 

[QuackSpeak]

Noir is a very unique little duck haha

P.S. I really like her name! Almost as unique as the duckie herself!

 

[Tevyes Dad]

Noir is a very unique little duck haha

P.S. I really like her name! Almost as unique as the duckie herself!

Thanks. Noir is French for "black", she is my black runner (who is now mostly white). I had another black runner who was killed by a raccoon before I got serious about defenses and she was named Ebony (so also black). Guess not quite so unique... LOL.

 

[QuackSpeak]

Thanks. Noir is French for "black", she is my black runner (who is now mostly white). I had another black runner who was killed by a raccoon before I got serious about defenses and she was named Ebony (so also black). Guess not quite so unique... LOL.

Is that her?? She is so so cute!
Okay, I have a question (Brace yourself

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I want ducks again. I miss my former duckies, but it's been long enough now that I don't feel like I am replacing them. But, since coming to this site, I have re-caught a Major case of Duck Disease. I have learned a lot from this site that I didn't know before (Like ducks can be trained and understand people words like dogs - and eat yogut lol, strangely enough, I never knew that). Oh, sorry. I went wayyy off-topic...

Haha welcome to my world. Anyways, point is, I want ducks again. Now, I've figured out that Metzer Farms hatches a batch of duckies on the same day as me and my brother's birthday (We're twins lol)! Now, it would be very cool to have ducklings w the same bday as me. But, would the weather permit this? The ducklings would get here early February, and be outside in early April. Is this okay?

P.S. My ducks were named in a different language too. Aiye, meaning earth (Pronounced like you're saying the letters I-A), and Oorun, (O-roo) meaning sun.