Northern Alabama. We have not broken 100 F yet, but will probably next week. Our weather is usually fairly mild for the deep South. My ducks have ample access to water, they have a pond and stream in their pen, and during the day I usually let them out and they have another pond to swim in. Their pen is in the shade, in fact a large tulip poplar supports the aviary netting over the pen.
Sad news. Al, the old Drake, died yesterday morning. I discussed his illness with a vet online, and he suggested with all the wet weather and some of the feed getting wet and moldy that it might have been mycotoxins that made him sick. I am going to be much more vigilant about water getting into the feed. I am also going to get some more duck-specific feed and supplement with oyster shell. One thing I haven't mentioned is that for some reason the females have stopped laying. This is odd for the summer. I had not made much of this, as frankly, it was a bother to collect the eggs as no one in our family likes to eat them (my daughter seems to be allergic to duck eggs.)
