in NYC Central Park yesterday

Ive been battling this question for the 7 months they have been alive. If one of them is a boy or girl. Every day it changes haha. They were suppose to for-sure both be girls. So Peach, the brown headed one, doesnt quack near as often and if so, it’s usually deeper/raspier of a quack. “Shes” defiantly bigger and always has been. I noticed 1 has started laying eggs, which I believe to be sugar because she usually sleeps on the left. But they both seem desperate for something else that they aren’t getting in their feed like calcium. And idk if i should be giving it to both! Also, I noticed peach tried mating sugar in the pool so i had a mini heart attack BUT I saw sugar mating peach after so I got even more confused 🥹😭 Sorry for so many photos but im laying out all my evidence lol so that theres no more confusion.

So I have a mix of Khaki Campbell, blue and black Swedish, and some random call duck that was thrown in with some chickens one day. Well I wanted to add a few birds and when I picked up some more black Swedish ducklings, I stopped by tractor supply and got bit by the cute animal bug….

They had ducks and geese in the same container and I’m not entirely sure that I didn’t get a goose by accident. The beak shape is what’s throwing me off because this little dude is so much bigger than even the 2 week old ducklings I have currently.

If it is a goose, can anyone tell me what breed? And if it will be okay with a total of 11 assorted ducks when it’s old enough to go in the big bird pen?

I came across this poor lil guy on my drive home from work today. He was in the middle of the road in my neighborhood, and he almost got hit a couple of times so I decided to capture him and take him home because he obviously had some sort of injury and was unable to walk or fly. I pulled over and used a small blanket that I keep in the back of my car to wrap around his wings and grab him. I was able to get him home safely, and then I started calling around to animal control services and vets in my area to try and seek help. The only place I found that would take ducks was an exotic animal clinic, so I put him into a box and drove him to the vet. Sadly since he was considered wildlife, they won’t be updating me on his care or whether or not he is okay. I have never seen a duck like this before, so I’m wondering if anyone could identify him so that I can do some research on them.

Soo there’s been a duck in our neighborhood (I live in smaller city) for like 3 days just walking aimlessly and quacking. There’s no farms or anything for like 15+ miles and really no where else where we can imagine he’d come from then somebody’s home. We ended up catching him after we called a bunch of spots and they couldn’t help him. Temp dropped to 15 degrees tonight so we didn’t want to leave him out there, but he wasn’t very resistant to being caught/ being held. We think we found a spot at an animal sanctuary but we might have him for a few days. How can I make his stay at le’Kyle’s hotel the best time of his life.

Hi everyone! I have a male duck (think it’s called a Drake) for about 4 months ago. I received it as a gift for my birthday and I love it with all my heart. Since the duck has been with me I tried to give him all he needs to ensure that is happy and he always sleep with me in my bedroom so he doesn’t need to sleep alone. But recently I’ve been struggling a lot with him. First, he always looks like he is angry with everyone, tends to bite my whole family in the toes (he even learned how to climb upstairs just cause he chased my mom all the way) and he don’t even let me pet him without bite me so damn hard that I have my arm with a lot of purple bites (he even try to “do the thing” holding my really tight when bitting me like he is trying to rip my flesh apart!). My mom is so angry with him but I don’t know how to change his bad behavior. It doesn’t matter what I try to do, he always rush to bite the toes of whoever stands near him. He lives with a dog that treats him very well, but out of nowhere the duck tries to “do the thing” (sorry, don’t know how to express sexual reproduction feelings of ducks) and obviously my dog gets angry. I think that having a female duck partner could help him, but it’s not possible for me to have 2 duck when I am barely able to take care of one. Does anyone know what can I do to change my duck behavior or make it enough happy to stop the bites? Or some toy or something that could help to “reduce the sexual stress”? I would appreciate any help that anyone can give me (My duck name is “Lucky” also called “El Padrinito”)

First photo is my drake Omeletta about 4 months ago. I only have 2 ducks at this time, so he isn’t getting confused with another duck. The next 2 photos are him now! He is 1 yr 2 months old. He molted into this dark brown colors, never grew back his male ‘curlies’, side bars are not bright blue anymore, and even his head is turning brown!

I am not sure he ever successfully mated - always was awkward and clumsy at it. I tried incubating some eggs and they weren’t fertile. He had 4 hens at that point (darn weasels).

So what is up with my dude/dudette??

Today i was walking down at the marina in my town, and came across this guy, i was surprised because we he didn’t run or fly away, so i immediately picked him up realizing he was most likely domestic and someone had dumped him. He has some injuries, im guessing from an animal attacking him, you can see some on his beak, unfortunately his right eye is also missing or injured, I can’t really tell because it’s crusted over. I just want to make sure he is domestic. He doesn’t mind me being around him and he sits on my hand and leg. I plan on keeping him, and taking him to the vet to get something for his eye. He’s a very sweet boy and I feel so bad for him ):

I bought a female duckling 5 days ago that is a month old. It is in good health and it is very friendly and sweet, but I have been reading online and alot of people are saying that it is a bad idea to only own one duckling and it needs atleast another one. I know this is true but is it okay if i kept it with me 24/7 in company or should i just take it to a pond?

She's a female that my Gray duck hatched. Is the color some kind of mix that doesn't have a name? I can't find it.

My ducks are not for shows so I have not focused on getting any specific or correct color. I'm also not very familiar with the names.😅

The most elegant duck I have ever seen, but species is it?

Neighbor rescued him after the mom got killed by a car, we have a lot of Muscovys in the area (South Florida) but he doesn’t look like one to me.

Hi all - I need some advice, help, suggestions, knowledge, anything anyone can offer!

I have a duck who has nested and laid eggs in a little garden dirt box on my balcony. I have no issue or problem with her being here, and she seems totally fine.

The issue is, my balcony is a second-floor balcony with no way down (other than inside through the house), and I cannot make ANY changes to the outside of the building. Even temporary. I’m concerned about what will happen with the ducklings once they’re hatched, but before they can fly. There will be no way for them to get off the balcony! And the balcony isn’t a good place for them for a lot of reasons (wide railing they could fall through, no water, no food, etc.)

I really don’t know what to do at this point. From what I’ve read it doesn’t sound like the duck would be able to find the eggs/nest if I move it when she isn’t around. I can’t imagine it’ll be easy (or safe?) to try to scoop up a nesting duck & her eggs while she’s here. Moving them all seems more complicated to do once they’ve hatched. I can’t get a hold of any wild life recuse near me (metro Detroit).

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We got 5 baby pekins in the spring, they definitely aren’t as horrified of us as they were initially but they still don’t let us get all the close to them. How long did it take your ducks to like you and be comfortable around you?

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

Recently my lil dude Ivy has been chasing me down and doing this? Him and his buddies always kinda ignored me so idk what's with the shift.

I found this Pekin at my local park and she’s sitting on a nest. Yesterday I thought it was mallard eggs because no duck was sitting but it’s a strange time of the year to have babies. There are 12 eggs in there. Who should I call to help? Or can anything be done?

This is Lucky, Lucky is, by her namesake, a very lucky duck for constantly surviving wild Animal attacks, sadly she is the last peking, we have cambles but they seem to ignore her. Lucky was always cool cuz she was never afraid of us or our dogs and allowed us to handle her more, the past week I’ve been bringing her in from the cold and giving her a shower n love. I can put her down and she hops in the shower from memories as a duckling so I feel like we are going in the right direction with her.

We’ve only done this showering twice but I was wondering if you guys could help me figure out some of her behaviors and see what I can do to make her even more friendly. First she always lets me pick her up from the bottom, she allows me to gently pet her wings and lower neck but is obviously skittish about the upper neck and head.

When I take her out I tend to hold her in a warm town and rub her chest to try and dry her (I know about them and water but it’s winter by us I just want to make sure. When I do this I notice she stretches her neck out across my arm and acts like she’s going to bite me but it’s just like little nibbles without nibbling, I can’t tell if that’s her telling me she doesn’t like it or what.

Finally is the pic above, my mom thinks she’s actually hugging me but I can’t tell if she is looking to get away without struggling.

These are some of the things she does but I was wondering if anyone here had any tips to get her to trust me more, we’ve had her for years but recently she’s getting a lot more attention so I wanna do it right.