The khaki-Campbell duck Thread !!!!!!!!

[Kaessa]

Seeing these adorable babies makes me wish my own ducklings were coming today

but I suppose two weeks is close enough...

Two weeks is SO hard to wait! I was counting the hours when mine were coming.

 

[Lizzy456]

Two weeks is SO hard to wait! I was counting the hours when mine were coming.

It's nearly killed me waiting two months , but going to feed stores and seeing the little bundles of fluff with little bills and adorable webbed feet sticking out helps a little Looking at BYC every day helps too
Going on vacation this weekend , going to the feed store to purchase all the supplies on Tuesday ... I'm hoping it's enough to keep me busy!

 

[Homesteadin]

I have two more weeks of waiting, too!

 

[AA Maple]

My first post here. Got half a dozen of these little fellas at Tractor Supply. I went there to buy some laying hens and couldn't resist how cute these little fellas were.

They're real terrors with their water and very skittish, but so far so good. They're coming up on about 1 week now and they're healthy and active anyway.

Any more than 1 drake will become dinner, and one will stick around to keep the hens occupied. I have plenty of acreage here and a lovely little stream for them to play in once they're bigger. Looking forward to using this forum and getting some advice as I go. If I can handle raising up chicks I'll probably get some turkeys in a couple months as well.

 

[Lizzy456]

I have two more weeks of waiting, too!

, I can't wait for my little fluffballs!

 

[Lizzy456]

My first post here. Got half a dozen of these little fellas at Tractor Supply. I went there to buy some laying hens and couldn't resist how cute these little fellas were. They're real terrors with their water and very skittish, but so far so good. They're coming up on about 1 week now and they're healthy and active anyway. Any more than 1 drake will become dinner, and one will stick around to keep the hens occupied. I have plenty of acreage here and a lovely little stream for them to play in once they're bigger. Looking forward to using this forum and getting some advice as I go. If I can handle raising up chicks I'll probably get some turkeys in a couple months as well.

You lucky people , it seems everyone but me has exotic breeds at their feed stores!It's always Pekins here...I wish they'd get in some Swedish ducklings , even though I know I couldn't get any Is that sand as their bedding?If so , how does that work out?

 

[AA Maple]

You lucky people , it seems everyone but me has exotic breeds at their feed stores!It's always Pekins here...I wish they'd get in some Swedish ducklings , even though I know I couldn't get any

Is that sand as their bedding?If so , how does that work out?

I didn't even know they were exotic! The only ducks they had and I was told they're good layers and foragers which is about what I was after.

The bedding is sawdust. What I had on hand since I use it in a "sawdust toilet" in the outhouse here. It gets really wet and matted down (not my outhouse, but under the ducks.... I don't pee in the outhouse). They simply love their water and enjoy running laps around the waterer with one foot in and one foot out.

Today I went to a local wood shop down the road and got some coarser shavings,, I may try some coarser still shavings next. If I had access to sand I'd definitely give it a whirl since it would likely take the wet better. 6 ducks seem to make much more of a mess (and smell... honestly I don't know where the term "S**T like a goose" came from....ducks can really hold their own there!) than 9 chickens in the tub next to them so whatever you use for bedding you should plan on EVERY DAY changing and mind their water.

I will definitely update here as they grow and eventually start free roaming.

 

[Kaessa]

I didn't even know they were exotic! The only ducks they had and I was told they're good layers and foragers which is about what I was after.

The bedding is sawdust. What I had on hand since I use it in a "sawdust toilet" in the outhouse here. It gets really wet and matted down (not my outhouse, but under the ducks.... I don't pee in the outhouse). They simply love their water and enjoy running laps around the waterer with one foot in and one foot out.

Today I went to a local wood shop down the road and got some coarser shavings,, I may try some coarser still shavings next. If I had access to sand I'd definitely give it a whirl since it would likely take the wet better. 6 ducks seem to make much more of a mess (and smell... honestly I don't know where the term "S**T like a goose" came from....ducks can really hold their own there!) than 9 chickens in the tub next to them so whatever you use for bedding you should plan on EVERY DAY changing and mind their water.

I will definitely update here as they grow and eventually start free roaming.

I've heard from a lot of people that sand just makes it worse. Large(ish) shavings work pretty well, though. I just picked up the poop and wet shavings every day and added fresh, then changed the whole lot ever 5-7 days.

 

[AA Maple]

You couldn't get any more relaxed than these little guys are right now.....

 

[AA Maple]

I've heard from a lot of people that sand just makes it worse. Large(ish) shavings work pretty well, though. I just picked up the poop and wet shavings every day and added fresh, then changed the whole lot ever 5-7 days.

How many ducklings? What size was their pen? The way these guys go I simply can't imagine anything would help but close to home shavings are cheap and if I want to drive 30 miles they're fee and they even let you use their shovel. "fertilized" shavings are going out around the fruit trees.