mallard duck

Drakes looking to find a new home. With a heavy heart, it's come time to rehome my sweet drakes bc they won't leave my sweet chicks alone. They have 3 hens they can't seem to get enough of, so it's unfortunately time for this to happen. I have 2 white fawn runners, a mallard, and a Swedish Blue...

With a heavy heart, it's come time to rehome my sweet drakes bc they won't leave my sweet chicks alone. They have 3 hens they can't seem to get enough of, so it's unfortunately time for this to happen. I have 2 white fawn runners, a mallard, and a Swedish Blue, who is absolutely gorgeous! I have...

Hi everyone! I was given this Mallard duckling to care for about 3 weeks ago. I was just curious if there’s a way to tell if will grow up to be a Drake or Hen? Below is a photo at 1wk & then 3wk

Hi everyone! My mallard duck has been broody for 28 days and yesterday into last night she seems to be done being broody and abandoned the eggs. It got down to about 50°f last night. Would that be too cold to try to salvage the eggs and attempt to hatch them in the incubator? Thank you

Hello all! Yesterday I had posted about this duck egg and today will be the same but a new discovery, as I noticed a new appearance of bruising on my ducklings egg (I have not taken it out of the incubator as of yet). The only thing is, it's where the membrane is (the pointy end). This...

Hello all, I was hoping to find someone who could help me understand what's going on with my Mallard duck egg, as it has yet to hatch and I noticed it some new changes today. To start off, I had gotten this egg a while ago (about roughly two weeks ago) after finding that my mallards had been...

Is it too late to cut off my mallards dewclaw? i hatched her from an egg and wasn’t sure if she was a mallard or rouen, since i had 2 other rouen’s hatch in the same clutch, so i just never cut it. but now she’s 4 months old and i know she’s 100% a mallard. would it hurt her if i cut it off...

I rescued some Mallard duck eggs and they are at day 32 and not one of them are hatching. I have them in a incubator I got from Amazon. I candle them and see some movements but no progress. I don’t know what to do with them. I’m afraid if I don’t help them some how they they will die.

We have a pond in our garden and mallards like to stop off and have a feed or take a dip in it. I’m recent weeks a single mallard male has been visiting the pond and he has feathers missing around his neck, a limp, He sits next to the pond most of the time, poops extremely frequently, and sits...

Hi I have 8 ducklings about one month old. They were sold to me as call ducklings but I never seen the parent stock and I have lost contact with the person. what do you think ? Call ducks or domesticated mallard? Or something else Help me out please

Please give advice. We have a full house with 10 hens and 2 roosters and dogs and cat, kids. Reacued a sweet mallard drake yesterday from an overcrowded coop with chickens and ducks that were attacking him. Brought him to a safe 8x8 enclosure in our yard (surrounded by our free range flock...

4 months ago my cat brought in a baby mallard duckling only a few days old, it was very late at night at we assumed she was abandoned so we kept her (she was unharmed) She grew up healthy and attached to me and my two cats (she bosses them around!), staying with me at all times and sleeping in...

Please check out this thread for context... https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...cklings-needing-a-home.1480310/#post-24669326 I have 2 mallard ducklings that have human imprinted and are 3 weeks old. I am considering rehousing them if there is an experienced duck owner who can give them a...

So I have had two mallards that have gone broody one after the other. The first one I got rid of the eggs bc they weren’t fertile but she got so depressed after I did that that I didn’t mess with the eggs for the second one. These ducks are a year old and my first experience with ducks. The...

Got a question about keeping a wild mallard duck. This duck showed up in our yard about a year ago. We were confused as to why a mallard duck showed up and never flew away when we approached it. It only walked away or did little flaps to getaway. We put her with our other ducks at the time to...

I have a bonded pair of mallard ducks. Howard and honey they used to go everywhere together. If one of them got lost in the yard they would yell for each other. This morning Howard and honey did their morning flight around the farm and honey got hit by a car. She went out quick but it was still...

Hello again, I’m worried about my duck, as she’s suddenly acting strange. I was trying to help her legs/feet become less dry last time I was here. I got a humidifier and some source of vitamin A. I also learned because of the dryness and other factors, she started to get bumblefoot. Since...

Hi everyone, I have a year old female mallard who I raised from an egg and she is very much imprinted in myself and my family. We got her another female runner duck of similar age to be her friend in our backyard. Recently our mallard has started acting very irritable and making a loud, hoarse...

A neighbor incubated 5 Mallard ducklings. After they became a nuisance he released them on my pond. I’ve cared for them all summer and now they come close to me for food. Ive built them a coop but they have no interest in going in. My question is this. Will they ever tame down or because of the...