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Hi everyone! My 8 ducks have happily had the yard to themselves the whole time I've had them. I just added a new puppy to the family, and I am looking for suggestions of ways for them to happily live together. The dog is a maltese, yorkie mix, so it is small (will be 6 lbs full grown). I...

I have a crazy idea - let's have everyone share their duck feet! There seems to be such a surprising amount of foot related problems with domestic ducks, I think it would be nice to take a minute and snap a picture of our duck's feet to share with the world So - let's see it all - the...

Hi all! We are starting to head into colder weather where I live - Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Average high in °F: 38 44 53 61 71 82 Average low in °F: 26 31 38 43 52 61 Av. precipitation in inch: 1.46 1.5 2.2 2.32 2.09 1.14 Days with precipitation: 10 9 10 9 8 5 Hours of sunshine: 137 155...

Update - Rosa hasn't laid an egg for 5 days now, and her pelvis is narrowing. I held her yesterday and a few stiff tail feather nubs came out! (she only had broken tail feathers) It looks like she is starting to molt without intervention. I will keep an eye on here, our weather is still warm...

Hi! I rescued two female Pekins today. One is 6 months old and looks really healthy. The other is 1.5 years old, is laying eggs and looks moderately healthy. Her feather quality isn't great, but she is a healthy weight and her eyes and bill look good. My problem is that she sounds just like...

I decided to add another wonderful duck to my flock. I was finally able to justify it - I have a family that is buying all of my extra eggs, today she bought 9 dozen and said to let her know when I had more! Wow! I have never before seen someone so excited for a duck egg. She had called her...

I decided to put up a youtube channel for my ducks. Go and check it out - it's called Peeper The Duck (Peeper is my main man), I am going to try to upload videos often, but I'm afraid I'm not very good at it, any tips? Here is the ducks getting a treat of meal worms :)

I was unloading groceries this morning, and a chicken walked up to me and let pick her up. I have ducks, so I already had layer feed and a spare waterer. She is on a cage right now with food and water, what more can I do for her? I am trying to find her family, but none of my neighbors are...

I was unloading groceries and this little lady walked up to me. I can't find her owners, but I am calling anyone I can think of that has chickens. She has laying feed and water, and she is fenced off from my ducks. Am I missing something? Oh! And she laid an egg, so that was a bonus :)

I've been reading up on adding wheat to a ducks diet. I have seen some calculators online, but I wanted to get feedback from real duck owners who are currently trying this out. We have a large food storage, and I wanted to start rotating some of our older wheat out, and bring in new barrels...

I have 4 female ducks and two male. I get 3-4 fertile eggs every day, and I would love to see some hatched. If anyone local is interested, please let me know. I am not sure about shipping at this time, maybe you can talk me into it :) They will all be mixed breed, but I can tell you the...

I have the best duck in the world. The problem with that- he has no concept of giving you space to walk. He has done this since he was 2 days old, he was always right under your feet. As a result, my three year old stepped on him and snapped his femur when he was 2 weeks old. We took him to the...

I was scrambling up some eggs for dinner, and I noticed that every single one was fertilized! I don't think I can share this news with anyone else, they would think it is a weird thing to be excited about. :). My 4 ducks are over a year old, and my drakes are 4 months old. I am just so proud of...

I have two WH ducks that are about 16 months old that stopped laying about 4-6 weeks ago to molt. They are now almost fully feathered again, but are still not laying. My young drakes are mating with them every morning, so I wonder if they are going to start laying again soon? My two other...

Hi! I am new to ducks, my first ducklings hatched in March, so they are almost 16 weeks old. Long story short, I added four female ducks that are full grown and laying. They are between the ages of 8 months to 16 months. I watch their normal behavior, but I wish I knew what they were doing! I am...

Hi! I adopted two more female Runner ducks about 3 weeks ago. When I got her, she was small, much smaller than my 4 month old drake. She is 1 year old, so I just thought she was petite. She was laying 1 egg a day, but for the last week, she had laid nothing. She is very active during the...

I raised these little guys since they were 2 days old, they are 12 weeks old now. I purchased them at my local feed shop, and they were straight run. I thought I would have a 50/50 chance with gender, but.. nope! I kept listening to Youtube videos, trying to figure out their gender by their...

Help! I have a fawn runner duckling that is almost two weeks old. While I was cleaning her pen this morning, my three year old stepped on her very hard accidentally. She doesn't seem to be in any pain, and there isn't any sign of breakage, but her foot is limp, and her wing is drooping. She...