What breeds do you have? I am planning to get two adult female Muscovy soon (to hatch and brood future ducklings) but I am going to wait until my big girl ducks accept the ducklings as part of their flock. Hopefully it will be soon. 🙂
Update! My husband divided off a section of the hoop coop for our younger ducklings. Tomorrow night will be the last time (for at least a week) that lows will dip to the low 40s...after that, 50s and 60s! So Sunday night will be our last night brooding our ducklings in the house (unless another...
Thank you, everyone! They are still getting used to each other...little ones are not sleeping in the coop yet because the youngest one is still growing in his/her big wing feathers and I worry they'll get cold. But we put them out in the duck pen to forage almost every day, and though the big...
Hi there! Happy Sunday!
I'm attaching a photo of my 5-week old blue bibbed (?) runner ducklings, which I received from a nice family down in South Florida who hatched eggs from their own happy backyard ducks. Their big feathers are coming in WAY faster than my first batch of (Metzer) ducklings...