At What Temperature can Ducks Survive?

[Moby-Duck]

Greetings,

As winter is coming on, the weather is getting colder. Tonight it will dip to 6 degrees farenhight and tomorrow the temperature is coming down to 4 degrees. Is this a temperature a duck can withstand?

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Greetings,
As winter is coming on, the weather is getting colder. Tonight it will dip to 6 degrees farenhight and tomorrow the temperature is coming down to 4 degrees. Is this a temperature a duck can withstand?

Ducks more likely have problems with higher temperatures than with cold weather, my girls are always panting during hot summer days.
If your ducks are not exposed to wind, rain or snow and have dry bedding to snuggle in, they will be better off than you! - Unless you are wearing a jacket, stuffed with duck-down.
Really, important is protection from wind and dry, a dry duck is a warm duck.
Unlike chickens, ducks have no wattles and combs that are exposed and prone to frost-bite. Ducks just retract their legs into their built-in down-jacket and tuck their bills under one of their wings and are good to sleep through the coldest nights.
Muscovies are a bit less hard, due to their caruncles.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

My muscovy do fine here. We routinely drop into the -25 plus Fahrenheit a few times each winter. Mine will still take baths daily. They will often have icicles hanging off them. Ducks are pretty hardy.

Here in Wisconsin wild ducks will often hang around all winter if there's open water and a food source.

When really cold they will sit down on their legs so providing some areas of deep bedding is important, both inside and out.

 

[Thunderduck9]

My little monsters run to the creek at -20f cold just doesn’t bother them they love the snow.They are Kaki,Pekin,Sweeds

 

[FeatheredFriends&Horses2]

My chickens hate the snow, but when we get a good snow the ducks will almost swim through it and "dust" bathe in it, and just generally look like they're having the time of their lives!

 

[amazondoc2]

Yeah, what they said. There’s a reason why coats and blankets and such are filled with down from waterfowl.

Dry and protected from wind are all you need to worry about for getting them through the winter!

P.s. — oh, and lots of good food and clean water!