They love grass on their bellies and flower petals to snack on

There's a park nearby where people have dumped muscovy ducks. Their population has gotten out of hand and there's maybe 100 around the pond. We managed to remove some hens (and ducklings) to be adopted to help slow down the population growth. I'm chilling with Priscilla right now before taking her to a friend who raises ducks. (Her muscovy is named Elvis.)

We brought corn, peas and spinach for the locals today. The geese were super friendly.

Should I be concerned eveyone is saying that it’s just a sound the male duck makes but he or she is way to young to be making a difference nosie

Woke up this AM to let my chickens out and noticed my blue Swedish in the pond w her geese pals happy as can be, but she is WET. As in the water isn’t beading off her feathers like it normally does. I know they have oil glands that basically make their feathers water resistant but that’s about as far as my knowledge goes. She’s never had an issue like this in the past and she’s about 6-7 months old. What can I do to help her??

Also this is my first time ever raising ducks so please be kind. I love them and do truly believe I provide and will continue to provide the best care that I can for them

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.

So my Pekin duck is about a year and a half old and for about a week now she hasn’t been eating properly and I’m not sure why. Her eggs at first were soft and didn’t have solid shells but then she stopped laying. She started to develop bowed legs, I’m guessing cause she hasn’t been getting enough nutrients and I don’t know what to do. I’ve been trying to feed her other food and she was at first eating lettuce and peas but she slowed down her eating yesterday.

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?

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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.

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.