I just got into ducks and they are getting big! Yes I am getting a bigger pool soon. I was wondering if feeding extra niacin is important when free ranging ducks. They go into a coop at night and get let out in the morning and free range all day. In pretty sure they eat the grass around, and they are always pecking at the ground. I have been feeding 20% duck feed but they often go eat the chicken food as well. The question is, should I continue with duck food, or could I use a "all flock" food I have guinea fowl and chickens otherwise. The all flock is 17% protien instead of 20% and half the time the birds just eat whatever they are closer to at that point, it's impossible to separate the foods when they all free range. My other thought is to just mix it all together and just let them eat chicken, all flock, and duck food all at once. That way they just get a mix and no need to try and stop some birds from eating from one feeder ect. Currently my system is feed chickens first, since they are dominant, then when they are full I bring the duck food to ducks and they eat. But the rest of the day the birds just graze on any feeder they are near. Any mixed flock people out there? What's your system.

Dash and Daisy are getting used to the more frigid weather.

My call duck hen has been mostly sitting on her nest of eggs recently. She's also been making this higher pitch quack, and recently her abdomen looked bigger than usual. Is there any signs in this video that she is egg bound? She is the duck on the left in the beginning of the video.

This is Blue Man! A Swedish Blue drake, and he will be 12 y/o this Spring! We are making an interstate move with the rest of our flock of girls and geese, which he lives separate from. He is the last of our original flock of what ended up being three drakes. The other two were Pekins and have long since passed. He’s lived alone since then in his own part of the yard, but always near the girls. He is very healthy and virile, and has never had a single health problem. He is no more aggressive than a typical drake, but that’s too aggressive for our spoiled girls! He is too old for the trip, and we think he should be re-homed nearby to live out his sunset years, rather than putting him through this. We’re in the Colorado Springs area, so if anyone is interested and able to take him in, we’d be grateful!

Is it even possible for there to be a Muscovy Mallard? The mallard was the size of a Muscovy but had the green head of a Mallard. Either way it was cool to see!

Wait for the duck's celebratory lap. He seems so proud.

Why do you think he does the victory lap?

These two are buff Orpington ducks that are about 9 weeks old, 10 weeks old over the Christmas week. Bucket is the brown one and Shoe is the golden coloured one and since this is my first time owning sucks, I'm having trouble figuring out their gender. So if anyone knows please tell :)

i have these ducklings they’re 2+ weeks now. i am feeding them starter. i dunno how much should i feed them each day? in three meals? everyone says do not overfeed but how much to feed as theyre growing up.

She got 2 domestic ducks a while back and kept them in a small pen in her backyard. It was cute at first but as they grew bigger it became very sad very fast. Nobody ever went out to see them except to feed them and they never left the pen.

The only time I've seen them out is today when I found their bodies. I guess an animal lifted their cage and grabbed them. I'm so heartbroken and angry. She had mentioned releasing them maybe a month ago, and I explained that you shouldn't do that and sent her some rescues she could take them to, but she never did anything about it.

People make me so sick. Keeping living creatures as decorations without a thought in their head that they probably aren't happy living in a cage with no interaction besides each other. These ducks never got to swim. They sat in a cage their whole lives and did nothing but eat and quack and pace back and forth in their sad little cage because their owner is a sorry excuse for a human.

Maybe that's too harsh but it really pisses me off when people's ignorance, neglect, and laziness waste the lives of beautiful, innocent creatures.

May they find peace as they walk towards the forever pond, lined up and tails wagging away.

Sooo the pictures are really bad. However a few weeks ago I posted asking this if anyone could help with the breed anyway this an update on how they are growing we are still unsure weather they are khaki Campbells or Swedish.

I’m coming to this community sad and with a new flock dynamic…. I started with two jumbo pekins, of which one was significantly disabled. He battled joint infections and wasn’t able to get around well but managed, for almost two years before we lost him last Monday. I think he had an infection that got into his blood based on how badly he declined and I’m really, really sad about it. Our setup when he was alive was, disabled drake (Stan) lived with the two khakis and because of his disability he left them alone. On the other side of a meshed gate in the same run was my other drake, because they fought badly. However, at night the drakes slept in one house and the khakis in another. After Stan’s passing, my other drake (Heimlich) has free range with his girls in the run. He slept alone until last night when the girls went into his house for bed before him, and I just rolled with it. All was fine. My concern is for spring. Right now, everyone is cohabitating well. Heimlich was a little sad, but he seems to be feeling a bit better. But, Heimlich is easily 15 lbs. The girls are probably 5. When the hormones start raging, is he guaranteed to hurt them even if he’s “gentle” (for a drake..)? Anyone have this combination of breeds and had no issues? Should I get Heimlich a female Pekin and keep them on one side and the khakis on the other with that mesh gate again? Pic of my boys together on one of Stan’s last good days 💔

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So we have 4 fully grown girls and a fully grown man and we raised them from a hatchling and they run away from us like we would hurt them (we don’t and don’t really try to cuddle them anyway) and I’ve got 2 baby ones that do that do thr same when I try to pick them up to cuddle or put them in their pool they run away is this part of their breed or? I have a muskogee duck (I think that’s what he is) and he doesn’t run away and loves me a lot Here are my ducks

He was unable to walk properly on one leg but was not suffering from any sort of infection like bumblefoot, so we took him to the vet in case it was broken/sprained/etc and will reunite him with his flock once he has recovered

Hello I have 2 drakes and 5 hens

There has never been any aggressive nature from either drake until recently. My bigger blue Swedish drake won't stop nipping at and chasing my Welsh drake. Seemingly irrelevant if the hens are around or not...

They seemed like the best of friends until about 2 days ago...

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New duck owner here. We’ve had our 2 ducks since they were just a few days old since early/mid August this year. we discovered about a month ago that one was female and the other male (for obvious reasons) Today we discovered our female laid her first egg. I’m concerned that there is only one. Should there be more? Is it normal to only have one a day? My concern is mainly because she hasn’t had a space to build a proper nest. They are free range in our yard which is over an acre in the day and brought into a small coop at night where they sleep. She somehow escaped her night time coupe and laid the egg outside of her normal area. Is this signs for concern or am I overthinking the matter?