Wild ducks and tame ducks sharing the same pond

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[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

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[Duck Breeder]

Hello,
Thank you for adding me to your group. I need some help. My fifteen year old daughter inherited 3 300 acre farms. One of the farms has a seven acre pond. There are wild ducks at the pond.
My daughter, Lily, would like to raise ducks and chickens at that farm. Not a huge operation, just enough to keep each other company, but still be pets that have names and like to be spoiled. I know nothing, and I mean NOTHING, about chickens or ducks so I am going to have a ton of questions for people that are more knowledgeable than I am.
So, my first question is, can wild ducks and tame ducks share the same pond?
Will the wild ducks leave? We like the wild ducks and we don't want to run them off. Will the wild ducks try to take over the shelter that we build for the tame ducks? Will the tame ducks decide that they want to be wild ducks when they get bigger?
I know these questions might be stupid, but we really want.to be successful and not have a catastrophic end to our water fowl endeavor. Thank you in advance for any advice you give.

not if you have a resident Drake wild ducks try and land and get in the pond and eat their food and my drake tries to kill them I have had to pull him off wild ducks before. Resident Drakes are extremely!!!! territorial

 

[Duck Breeder]

not if you have a resident Drake wild ducks try and land and get in the pond and eat their food and my drake tries to kill them I have had to pull him off wild ducks before. Resident Drakes are extremely!!!! territorial

Easter Eager chickens are a great breed for kids they lay colored eggs and have puffy cheeks. I have bought several over the years but the Cal Ranch breed is the best I have found if you get them young and play with them a lot they can be very fun.

 

[Duck Breeder]

Easter Eager chickens are a great breed for kids they lay colored eggs and have puffy cheeks. I have bought several over the years but the Cal Ranch breed is the best I have found if you get them young and play with them a lot they can be very fun.

They jump up on your knee and say hi

 

[Duck Breeder]

You need to know a lot about ducks they have to be kept in dog runs because dogs and predators can break through chicken wire we found that out the hard way with a bunch of dead birds the chickens need a dog run too. A seven acre pond is a problem the chickens will put themselves away at night you will never get the ducks out. You might have a small chance if you put the dog run and coop near the water and leave then in there for three of four months and the feeder is in there we have a small yard and pond so we can get ours to go in the pen at night. I sell Australian Spotted ducks they are a great breed for kids but I am sold out. They will swim under water and pop out on land like the penguins do on national geographic and they paddle real fast on the water and dance on their toes. they look similar to call ducks but have some color variations they are part call duck part mallard part northern pigtail and part of a unknown duck from Australia. they have some advantages over call duck Call duck lay 6 eggs a year and have a low survival rate assie spots lay a 100 to 120 eggs a year and have a higher survival rate

 

[Duck Breeder]

They will lay 75 or 80 eggs before they get broody.we incubate some and eat some. duck egg are better than chicken eggs. and sell some. and the ones we incubate we sell when they get three months old witch is almost an adult. I have my birds from Utah all the way to New York. once they get broody the hens stay on the nest for 23 and a half hours a day they come off run to the pond take a quick bath and then eat as much as they can before they go back. they are hilarious they quack loudly when the come off the nest and have downy all over their heads because they just covered the eggs with down they look like mad scientist and they are in a big hurry to get clean eat and get back. all the yellow in the duck coloring comes out when they are nesting so they don't stand out at all. this is my blue head hen they are the most rare very recessive. green heads are The most dominant those are the 2 above right and left The blue head Emma is the favorite.

 

[Duck Breeder]

I recommend the Australian spots and I know a place where you can get a Blue head pair this summer if you reserve them now the cool thing about the Blue spots is when they mate they have 50% blue heads 25% green heads and 25% silver heads the blues and silvers are most sought after they are expensive but if you incubate a large number you can have a very beautiful and diverse flock in one year. the first bird is a silver head appleyard the spots are similar but more body color the second is a snowy spot its extremely rare I am the only one in the country that has them for sale as far as I know a lot of the spot breeders didn't even know what it was but i did a lot of research and found mention of them online

 

[Duck Breeder]

So message me any time I will help you miss some of the bad things we went through and help you get a healthy beautiful Flock. look at the cool pattern on my green heads back you wont find that on any other duck the spots were bread on the east coast in the early 1930's for color

 

[Duck Breeder]

Thank you for the likes I hope everyone has a great year good luck with your birds. Hope you have a healthy happy flock and lots of eggs.