Had no clue why they were butt biting and generally being feral. There was an empty blueberry carton that blew off the table and Beans was guarding it with her life.

Woke up this morning and one of our young ducks is acting weird. Very limp, doing something with his head like it's struggling to breath.

Vets don't open for a couple of hours. Any suggestions?

So I have pet ducks 6 of them. For the winter they have their own houses that have a pool inside food roof no way any other wild birds can get to their food, water or to them. Should I worry about them getting bird flu?

Most proud looking ducks when walking about

Hi everyone, i posted a few months back abt my two ducks and got mixed answers, now they've grown and are around 6 months i think, and im still confused abt the brown one since im sure the white-ish one is a female. Now i have a question, the brown duck keeps mounting the white one and they do it but yhe brown one doesnt have the green head, like male mallards do. Does anyone know whether they're pretending for a drake or is the brown one a drake? Also the brown duck is a bit smaller than the white duck. Thank you for all your answers.

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in NYC Central Park yesterday

Yesterday I just walked into my coop to collect eggs, I thought it was a poop at first, will update when I crack it & cook it.

I think this should hold a world record or something; no, it’s not a pebble.

i have 6 beautiful ducks that i keep as pets and for eggs. they have a large barn and a big fenced in outdoor area with lots of pools. i’m worried about bird flu, as i keep seeing it being reported… what should i do to protect them? i have lots of finches around my house that love to snack on their food and fly into their coop during the day. should i put a large net over everything to keep them out? or is there nothing i can do? or something im not thinking of? do i have to accept the reality that i may lose them? thanks so much.

We have officially entered the lanky awkward teenage era

I love this picture as he looks kind of deranged 😆

I'll try to keep this short to the point.

I have a small 4 duck flock all hatched around Oct 15. Two female buffs, a male Pekin and a Rouen that was supposed to be a female, but I'm thinking she's a male, we aren't sure. Daisy is her name, or she'll become Davey if she turns out to be male.

Daisy is who I'm posting about.

From the start we could always tell that Daisy was treated differently by the flock, little things like she'd sleep separately from the rest. She's not skittish of us like the rest are. Nothing to cause concern.

We did realize though that at feeding time she would be squeezed out as they got older and bigger, which led up to last night as we were watching them in their coop on our baby monitor we saw her eating and one of the girls pecked her on her butt to move her out of the way and I guess it pissed her off because she took a running jump into the girl's head and pecked her back on the side of her head. Then another incident Daisy was trying to get by the rest and I guess was frustrated and just plowed her way underneath them to get where she wanted to do. Then we saw her take a running leap into our Pekin.

We chalked it up to her just getting fed up with the rest because all along Daisy has always been our most laid back duck so she seemed to be kinda bullied by the rest and we just figure as she's matured she's had enough.

I was also kinda thinking in the back of my mind if she turns out to be male MAYBE that's got something to do with it because the female that pecked her is the one that our Pekin obviously favors and she favors him.

Till this morning. I was still in bed so I personally did not see it but my husband says Daisy was acting strange, lost her balance a couple times and acted almost like she'd been zapped. He woke me up and I immediately went outside but since I've been up she hasn't acted strange at all. Figures.

So what do y'all think? I can't think of anything she might have gotten into, but there's always a possibility I suppose. What could cause her acting like she was zapped, losing balance the morning after showing aggression?

Any feedback is appreciated.

Thank you.

Are these certainly both male? The smaller one sounds way more raspy so i was really hoping the large one was possibly female

Wasnt letting me attach videos to the original post for some reason

Art dome by @ssebong_rama

I just thought it was so cute and wanted to share!

Sorry for poor quality photos on this one. It wouldn’t come close and was fast moving.

Mostly white/cream with a black head and black on back of wings. Was seen alone, but my mum had seen a pair further up river recently. Looks a bit smaller than our typical mallards.

This was spotted in Norwich, UK, but I can’t find a satisfactory match on native bird identifiers. Thinking it could be an escaped or dumped pet.