They climb like a squirrel which makes it even more challenging. the mandarins males sound like a zipper being zipped really fast. Female have a quack but nothing like the domestic. The teals have a Wooop sound. Now muscovies don't quack? I wanted a female to help hatch out my mandie and teal...
You are correct. I have lost a few over the years. After about a year, they will not be so flighty if you move slow and no sudden movements. They like to watch what you are doing in their pen. Like cleaning the pond or filling feeding and water stations. Actually the Ring Teals are more flighty...
I ship, but wait until late Sept or Oct when the weather breaks and can be for sure the sex. I usually keep my 5 pair of regular mandies, 3 to 4 pair of white mandies and my 4 pair of ring teals. The rest are forsale.
Yes she did. I had one hatch out 18 ducklings. Mandarins are known to egg dump when one hen starts laying. You sometimes loose eggs that way as she won't sit until SHE is done laying. Learned that this year. I was too late to take them in and put in incubator. But I have 60+ duckling now and...
Thank you so much. is it better this way than dry? I have food out all the time for them "free choice" due to working 12 hour shifts. Does this spoil? probably asking questions that is in the video. lol Thanks gain.
thank you, that was the term "Mash" and not chop. Thanks. I know my doves and pigeons and one pet quail love it. Do you feed this as their diet or for a snack?
No the chop is like ground corn and other stuff but its ground like a powder. That is what I worry about. Will it get stuck in their throats. I have plenty of water in their pen and a pond so no worries there with having plenty of water.
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I have mandarin ducks and I feed a duck feed along with other things. My question is a neighbor that has (had) chickens has some left over food from the sale of her birds. She gave me a few bags of layer pellets which I know is ok for ducks also. But she gave me about 200# of chop...
No, Mandies do better in winter than summer. They are good until -20 degrees. Now they need a place to get out of the weather if they choose. I have perches up in my pen and they mostly perch and when it snows they get on the ground and play in it. I have a large pen off the ground for them...
also want to say they are social birds so if the pair fly off the other one may die due to loneliness. also if she is pinioned predators can get to her.
They keep their color until after breeding season then they start to molt and lose their color. They start getting it back in September.
These birds do not migrate that is why here in PA we don't have to have a permit to own them but we do for wood ducks. But when they get their wing feathers...