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I'm pretty sure mussel shells would work fine. Clam shells are probably too thick.

Still no crushed oyster shell available in California. I made the mistake of buying Manna Pro 'oyster shell and coral calcium' from Amazon. It's 99% coarse destroyed coral reef gravel with a few pieces of what appears to be clam shell. The ducks don't touch it. Fortunately, while previously they...

Nope it got worse and worse. I gave three of them, including the very expensive Appleyard to a Farm Animal Rescue Farm.

Yep! Poultry starter intended for chickens and allies needs to be supplemented for ducklings. I've always used brewers yeast intended for supplementing horse feed, about $12 / 2# tub. Also from quite an early stage they eagerly take various plant matter, wild lettuce seems to be the favorite.

More details about the panicking behavior. The trigger was if I was anywhere in sight. The Appleyard and three runner ducks would crouch, fluff their feathers and start to squawk so loud my ears would hurt and dash madly to and fro in the pen or in the yard. Once the panic started the two other...

Thanks. I guess you have lots of oysters in Rhode Island?

The pet/feed store guy mentioned this nationwide oyster shell shortage just yesterday. I'm going to look for some appropriately crushed limestone - probably the stuff intended for gardening would work.

I guess I'll wait 'till she's a year old and until then wear ear plugs in the backyard..... <8)

Yes, the extremely loud squawking is more likely when the feed dish is empty, keeping it full doesn't prevent it. They've got an automatic waterer (I don't know how anybody would keep ducks without one...) As I've mentioned, I've had ducks for years, the runners, swedes, and kakhi campbells...

I've kept ducks for years, runners, khaki campbells, swedes, etc. and had pretty good luck with egg production. This year I got a pair of Silver Appleyard ducklings. They're gorgeous. However, the duck has started squawking so loud I can hear her 1/4 mile away. Any idea what triggers this behavior?

Anybody in San Francisco bay area want a reasonably healthy 2 year old Black Swede Duck (female that is) She was laying quite well until end of June. She's become very noisy, driving me nuts in fact.

Thanks. The website is a bit complex....

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Anybody in San Francisco bay area want a reasonably healthy 2 year old Black Swede Duck (female that is) She was laying quite well until end of June. She's become very noisy, driving me nuts in fact.

I'm Karl in San Jose California. I've raised various fowl, chickens for example, since childhood back in rural Maryland. More recently I've kept geese and ducks, geese for garden maintenance and ducks for eggs. In the past I've lost birds to bobcats (perhaps a lynx - it was huge) but now have a...