I will say though how hardy Muscovy ducklings are. I got two that were 3 days old. Kept them in the garage in the dark except when someone would go out there with absolutely no heat. They grew just fine and one turned out to be a female so I still have her. The huge brother of hers had to go...
My very first two Mallard ducks were rescues that were only a day old from the wild. It's funny I never really could tell the difference in their behavior but I am sure it is because they were hand raised by a human and took on the domestic side of themselves instead of the wild. I have...
You are fortunate. My two little Mallard girls that I got from Metzer about 4 years ago let the boys pick on them quite a bit. They are the reason I have had to rehome drakes before. Sometimes they will chase the little Call drakes but other drakes were no match for them. I am glad yours can...
That would have been my luck, out of 11 one time I got 1 Hen but I figured out down the line that my Mallard throws off drakes. Funny how that can happen.
After thinking about your video Frank I did have a Drake that had to have done the same thing by taking the newborn duckling out of the nest to take it out to drown it. There was no way that it could have climbed out being newborn and ended up in the middle of my pen in a puddle drowned. He...
Wow, so now I know what that noise was yesterday. Frank they are giving you a run for your money. I am so glad mine are confined as I don't think I could put up with all of that. No wonder you want to swap them out. Good luck on finding takers, lol.
It might be cheaper Frank to build a separate enclosure for Sunny and her babies. Drakes can be brutal to ducklings because they want to mate the Hen. That's why my drake killed the one baby it was able to get ahold of as soon as it was born. I trusted it because the Mother duck wanted it to...
Frank did you get Mallards or are those wild ones that were getting mixed in with your ducks? I couldn't remember if you had gotten some or not. One of my ducks ate a large bee the other day and I thought it would hurt them but they played with it first and made sure they killed it before...
When I let my Mallard drake stay in the large pen with my Hen, as soon as a baby hatched he drug it out in the rain and drowned it in a puddle. He was wanting to remate his Hen. It was his offspring too. Some drakes are just not that nice.