The gross truth about ducks...

[J3172]

If you let them out while it's rains they will turn your nice green yard that you spend so much time on into a mud hole

 

[smithzoo100]

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That's hysterical!!

I never see mine as constantly angry, they just have to tell stories about everything that they have seen and done since the last time they saw you!! Okay, there always seems to be a girl off scolding one of the boys, but that's not chronic anger here. The boys usually deserve it!! The continual chatting is also known as a Duck Committee here

Okay, to all you chicken people thinking about "dabbling" in ducks (excuse the pun, but it was way to perfect!), be warned that they can empty a chicken waterer in nothing flat and possibly leave your poor chickens searching out dirty duck water

THAT part drove me batty last Summer!! Poor little bantams when the baby Scovies invaded their little tractor they sleep in at night and filtered their full waterer all over their coop floor in about 90 seconds. I thought that the waterer was leaking until I caught the teenage ducks running at me when I refilled it and put it back. I stepped back to watch what was so exciting and just HAD to laugh and then roll my eyes as the ducks filtered all the fresh, clean water out the back of their bills...all over the coop floor!! Should have seen that coming

 

[nettie]

the new gross things my ducks did-

After a bath in the tub, Vinny and Ollie have decided that pooping all over and then dabbling in it and flinging it all over is fun... It looks like a murder scene took place in the bathroom, only with poop instead of blood... It gets as much as four feet high and of course all over the wall, tub, and shower curtain...

Then, the extra gross part.... After catching them flinging poop, I had to shoe Vinny. I put a bed pad down on my bed to put his shoes on him. then he decided to shake his head back and forth... Unbeknownst to me, he had a mouth full of poop and had flung poop ALL OVER my bed, of course missing the pad i put down... I had to wash all of my bedding and wipe down a few dressers/walls. YUCK!!!!

They get shoed in the bathroom from now on!!!!

 

[lovesduckies]

sounds like i have some well trained ducks lol

mine don't eat poo or fling poo anywhere. they hardly poo on the way to the bathtub. all they do in the tub is clean themselves, splash around, and i have walked in on my drake mounting my duck and i close the door, tell them sorry, and walk out lol.

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

Please forgive me while I go VOMIT!!!!!!

 

[mstricer]

I still want duckies

 

[ConchRepublic]

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Welcome to ducks...

We had to lance and treat our ducks bumble foot issue.... what do they do? Proceed to scream, yell, and kick madly... AFTER we lanced their feet, no issue while we're cutting the nasty puss out, but once we're done, it's raining in the room...

 

[kw]

I like my ducks a whole lot better then my guineas and chickens (my chickens are a close second though). I find my ducks to be a lot more entertaning then the rest. Everytime I walk out the front door, they flock around me telling me all about it!! (mostly it's "I want treats") I love watching them swim uder the water in their pools!!! Mine also poop as soon as they get in the water, so I don't get to watch them swim for long.

 

[fisharescary]

Ok, so I think I can handle all this as long as it happens outside. I guess I will never have ducks in my house, but we weren't planning on it past brooder stage.
I don't know, is there some sort of good litmus test for whether we'll be too squicked out to get and keep ducks? I feel confident now, but yesterday I was feeling a bit low about it and worrying that I'll be too grossed out to really enjoy them.

 

[Chick_a_dee]

Despite all the gross things ducks do, they're HILARIOUS.

Mine travel around the garden quacking wildly. The other day they discovered the old front door that opens into our living room and started "billing" it lol. All you could hear was this tapping/vibrating in the living room as they billed it hahaha.