The Quack Shack

[Miss Lydia]

Only thing mine don’t seem interested in if I try and give them one is a slug they will walk away from them.

 

[Luv Ducks]

Only thing mine don’t seem interested in if I try and give them one is a slug they will walk away from them.

Those I have heard can be a problem if you eat one. What I had read was that they can live and produce a web like substance in its victim. My Father in law accidently ate one years ago and had to go to the hospital with problems with his intestines. They said it was not due to the slug but it was awfully strange that he was fine before he ate it and had to have part of his intestines taken out afterwards. Ducks may be smarter than people give them credit for.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Have you considered call-ducks?

theres enough predators around here

 

[Luv Ducks]

theres enough predators around here

So what do you consider the ideal duck to be? Just curious.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Yes mine did try to go broody. I just kept taking her eggs and they are so big and yummy that I like mine for that. Mine have laid almost every day this spring so far as summer here technically isn't until next week. She let me pet her as she was sitting on her first egg that I was going to get from her and then I put the food scoop to make her get off of her nest so that she would not nip me. She is fine now and knows I am taking the eggs. Mine are more pets than egg sources so what they eat doesn't bother me. I can understand if you are in it for the egg layers and my Mallard laid almost all year last year so she was my best one for that but she is skittish as all get out and not nearly as friendly. She is my best Momma duck though and lays those eggs so I don't mind her being skittish. We are all in this for different reasons so I hope that you can find some that lay many many eggs and don't eat too much.

The eatings okay so long as they pay rent or don't eat my children

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

New to me behavior from ducks: walking in a circle.

??

Turns out they spotted a slow worm, the legless lizard (this guy: Anguis fragilis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_worm ). Small enough to look like food but large enough so this doesn't really work. They circled it for a while, pecked at it experimentally and in the end it managed to get away.

Amateurs! Blanca Duck would have eaten it in an instance! She even tried to eat a snake once: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/quack-dear-good-people-from-byc.1306991/post-21300050

 

[Canadian Wind]

Amateurs! Blanca Duck would have eaten it in an instance! She even tried to eat a snake once: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/quack-dear-good-people-from-byc.1306991/post-21300050

They are young. Give them time. lol

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Stranger Danger Alert from my ducks! - Got outside and shot this incredible footage of a rare PeaDuck:

Now what to do with this rare bird?
Are "PeaDucks" compatible with Mallard derived ducks?
Do they pose a danger for my little ducklings?
I have no experience with pea-fowl at all…

 

[Canadian Wind]

Stranger Danger Alert from my ducks! - Got outside and shot this incredible footage of a rare PeaDuck:

Now what to do with this rare bird?
Are "PeaDucks" compatible with Mallard derived ducks?
Do they pose a danger for my little ducklings?
I have no experience with pea-fowl at all…

Oh wow!!! Did you capture him? Do you have neighbours that he might have escaped from?

@casportpony

 

[Supercow]

5 months, 3 days, 1 egg! Collected warm as they ran from their house to their day spa. It's a start