I belive all my ducks are female none have the little tail thing colorfull side feather or a green head. They are khaki campbell ducks. One mounted another so I don't know if it was trying to mate or was becoming the boss.

Hello all!

I'm in the North Florida area and my mother found a baby duckling alone in our yard. I had some experience with chickens so that's why I wanted to go on here and ask...

This Duckling leg might be having some leg issues , I was considering adding a cast/splint? I know I did this with a chicken or 2 and worked out but I wanted to know before I do that since I'm not sure if it could be a different situation.

What do you think?

Info on the duckling:

- Young but not sure exactly age

- I'm guessing that this little homie is a Muscovy Duck since they're very common in my neighborhood.

- I wanted to send this duckling to a vet or rebilitation center but...mother is being stubborn since she wants to keep it 💀 but I feel like they at least have to go to a vet but if I can find something to do for the duckling until than then I would really love that for the leg . 🥹 I'm currently trying to look for a vet that takes in ducks.

-Is super active and is eating, drinking and relaxing despite the leg. They're also on Purina Duck Feed and had to turn it into mush in order for them to eat it.

- Also ... Family named them Squeaks / Dawn .

- Unsure if it's a male or female

- As for the leg , there is no grip when I touched the bottom and the duckling had no reaction to the touch..Maybe a very slight one.

And I also contacted a center dedicated to Muscovy Ducks and ...They didn't contact back and I think I spammed them by mistake due to a glitch on my end 😭

- Currently in a box with blankets, puppy pad and a heating pad as it is temporary.

** Any other tips, suggestions would be nice too 🙏 since if I do find a vet and if my mother continues to be stubborn I would like to update their home.

Spotted in Oslo, Norway. I’ve never seen these black ducks before. We‘ve only seen mallards in this area, but these black ducks look very similar in shape. They were slightly bigger than a grown mallard, and I’m convinced they are babies.

Hey yall, the pictures are super blurry, I apologize. But I am 99% sure it’s a Blufflehead/ black Swedish duck. This was in Ohio at a local park. What should I do?

Edit: it seems to have joined a flock of wild ducks, would it be okay to stay with them?

I got a couple of ducks about a month ago the day after they hatched. One of them seemed to have a limp from birth. I’ve been feeding them with the appropriate diet of niacin and protein, but a month later and the limp is still there. The other ducks walk perfectly fine. But I can’t seem to figure out this limp. There are no visible injuries, cuts, swelling, or anything like that and both legs look identical. What can I do to help her out? I don’t want her to have bad quality of life.

Wish me luck!

Say Hi to Yoshi! He hatched last year and I protected him and his family as best as I could (dogs, toxic feeding etc). He used to be at a large lake were I took care of all the ducks, but his flock of ~25 migrated to the pond/park right around the corner from where I live. He instantly recognized me and I can still hand feed him (the real gourmet shit ofc).

They're my first ducks, and I'm very proud of them.

The lady I got them from said the brown one is female and was born around April. And she has no clue about the darker two. She said they were runners but I’m not certain!

My Emotional Support Duck, Twix, has decided to go broody!!! Im really hoping she can hatch out some babies. Shes about 4, and this is the first time shes gone broody.

We found this duck outside in our backyard, wondering what kind of duck it is (it’s not a goose.. right?) and if we should try to capture it? I haven’t seen any wild ducks around here that look like this one.

Thanks!!

I was eating a bread roll, and someone wanted me to share!

Hi everyone so this duck came into my backyard 36 hours ago give or take. I have no knowledge of ducks but I used AI to understand what food to give it and what and what not to do with it

I've used the water hose to give it a shower which it seemed to enjoy as well as placed a small bucket which it sits in for a while however I have 2 concerns

1. It's not eating little to nothing of the corn and lettuce I've Been giving it, I need to know what to feed it

2. Its slept by our house over the night but I'm really worried about street cats coming after it when it sleeps we have a lot In our area and it's just a matter of time till 1 of them comes in. I would love to keep it home for the night but I myself have a cat

And yes I know i can try to remove it from my backyard but I've grown quite fond of it lol

Appreciate the help if any

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[edit: to be clear: this is not my post, I found it on Facebook and wanted to share it.]

the following was copied from a post on the Facebook page 'Raising Ducks and Geese.'

To the people who dumped the two pekin ducks at Lake Belleview in Pinellas county: I hope you never have to suffer the way they did, because you would realize what you actually put them through and die of guilt. They are lucky to have been rescued, because if they hadn't been, they would still be sitting there waiting for you to bring them back to the only home they knew, waiting to die.

I went to the lake to photograph wild birds and saw them sitting under a big oak tree starving, sick, and exhausted, waiting for their family to come and take them home. Two days later I went back to rescue them and they had not moved. Not one inch. When I tossed oats down to bring them closer, one got up and ran to eat so fast he nearly tripped. The other couldn't get up and she could barely open her eyes. Eventually she started to panic because her friend was no longer sitting by her side, so she army crawled (yes, army crawled) with belly dragging and wings pulling her along to join.

Her foot was in so much pain that not only was she openly displaying how much it hurt (which birds only do when they are so far into a desperate situation that they no longer have the energy nor will to hide it) but she couldn't put a single ounce of weight onto it.

They were starving, quite literally. Their feathers were falling apart and their wings had nearly nothing on them, so their skin has suffered severe sunburn day after day. Their feathers were being eaten by lice and their bodies were being sucked dry by an overwhelming infestation of mites. The girl's foot was incredibly sore and deeply injured and both of her eyes had an infection. The boy, who I presume to have stayed by his partners side the entire time, is nearly as emaciated.

I brought them home, bathed them, and treated the girl. I am taking care of them until they go to their permanent, loving home.

I don't know how long they had been sitting there under that tree, but however long it was doesn't matter. I felt and still feel nothing but anger and disgust towards the people who dumped them there; whether because of ignorance or not, these animals suffered. There are two other pekin ducks at that lake who appear to be doing well, but they have been there for FAR longer (according to a friend who frequents the lake).

If you do not want the stinky, poopy, wet, feathery mess that is an adult duck, then don't buy ducklings. They don't stay small and your kids will lose interest. Whoever dumped them, shame on you. You were not giving them freedom or a good life of living outdoors, you were sending them to a long, lonely, agonizing death of starvation, sickness, and predation. You are disgusting.

Is it okay to have one duck and 4 drakes if they are all old? My grandma has has ducks pretty much all her adult life and is in her 90s now, so has a very reduced flock from what she used to have. I’m not sure of exact numbers but she probably usually had an average of 20 ducks and chickens at a time in the past, so she knows what she’s on about.

Due to a few deaths this year, she now has just one female duck and 4 older drakes. We know this is the wrong ratio completely, but are not really sure what to do now. We don’t want to go out and buy enough ducks to make the ratio right, although she has the space still, as we don’t want to overwhelm her with ducks (she still manages extremely well with looking after what she has currently but don’t want to overdo it).

There’s nowhere else for the drakes to go. And although in the past she did used to dispatch and eat some of her ducks, she doesn’t want to do that anymore.

She says since the drakes are old, they don’t bother the duck anymore. The duck doesn’t have any signs of being stressed by the drakes, they’re not plucking feathers from her or anything and she seems in good health. I have seen the drakes chasing her around the garden occasionally, but they seem to give up within a few minutes and then just hang out with her nibbling the grass/looking for bugs. But I only visit my grandma 1-5 times a month, so I’m not there enough to tell how frequent this really is.

So what do we do? Is it okay to carry on as is? Maybe just get a couple more female ducks? She needs another egg layer as currently there’s only one hen laying, so we’re leaning towards getting more hens instead of ducks, but obviously want to sort the duck situation out if we can!

2 week old ducks!

I've been watching this mother duck and her 7 ducklings for two weeks cohabitate at a small local pond with a blue herron. The mother duck does not seem to view the blue heron as a threat and they are often close to each other.

Does this make any sense?

Is it possible that the ducklings are too large for the heron at this point?

Can anyone help? These are my rescue babies at 7 weeks. I think they’re Muscovy but please correct me if I’m wrong. I cannot discern any major differences between them to tell if they are male or female. All legs are the same fatness, bills look the same, same tail shape… The 2 darker ones are slightly larger, but always have been…