Anytime she sees a box she has to sit on it LOL

The kids seem to quite like being up high we’ve noticed. Bundty seems to have a thing for climbing up and perching on my arm, where he will preen, flap, that’s his and have a nap, roosting away.

So tonight, my wife had the two kids up on the couch while I did the washing. I set myself up on the floor with clean puppy pads and we switched for the evening.

I can almost hear Bundty mocking me, “look at me, I’m a human, I pay taxes, I remember appointment TV, I have anxiety”.

One of my neighborhood Muscovies. I just love his feather pattern. I could stare at him for hours.

Hi, we recently hatched two blue swedish ducks, but one has an underbite and nostril indents but no actual holes, so hes mouth breathing and cant close his beak fully. Named him caraxes!

He seems to be doing fine, but does anyone know if i should get him on special feed? Could something help lessen the severity of it as he grows?

I've noticed the end feathers of one wing are a little angled upwards, and naturally I worry about angel wing. They're on starter feed for ducklings basically since they hatched, and we sometimes give them leafy greens in the water, or some cucumber/grated apple etc.

Am I just overthinking?

My little ones moving across the yard. They're getting used to their whistle calls and what they should do.

I recently purchased two ducks as a gift for my sister we've had them for about two weeks they're still quite nervous and I was wondering when I'm meant to let them into their run they're muskovy so iv had their feathers clipped to prevent them from flying away they still won't let anyone get near them tho they're around 6 months old I think

Or is it Worm and Peas?

Lady Lemon and her lovely brother Knight Bundty remain in witness protection as our scumbag neighbour avoided any punishment other than his guns being taken from him for killing his mate and both of their siblings because our pipsqueak neighbour lied to the police, unsurprisingly.

Lemon loves worms - she prefers a live morio worm to dried meal worms, but jokes aside, it is very difficult to get a picture of one with her before she snatches it out of the air or your fingers as needed.

The babies are seeing a vet as needed, and get fresh air all day thanks to floor to ceiling door/windows on their room.

In one image, Lady Lemon models her Mini Meadow, a chunk of turf intended for rabbits. She doesn’t mind she is not the target market. In another image, you will find her Lemonship asleep leaning gently against her post-bath spa tub. We tried to vary things for them and the sense that they get a proper bath followed by spa time, or they get to use a long tub as a pool together in the lounge.

Our hunt for a new home for these two and others that we might be able to rescue from the lake may reach an end by this time next week - fingers crossed.

My wife and I will soon move to a place where we will set up as predator resistant a set up as we can for our duckies, while we also build an environment within their enclosed space that is as enriching as possible.

Because we have the opportunity to build this from scratch, whether we have a body of water on the property already or need to set them up in a pool, it would be very helpful to understand from those who’ve already done this what they would do again what they wouldn’t do again or what they wish they’d done.

Some of the broader design points that I’ve been considering for the “day space” -

1. Elevated pool with a large drain out point in the middle of it to allow easier draining and cleaning

. I can certainly find uses for that drained material in the garden

1. . Not sure yet how many separate drinker stations we would use so that they’re not compelled to go and drink from the pool.
2. Elevated pool necessitates an elevated platform for duckies to access the water and for me to get in there and drain it, whether that is steps in the form of large pavers gently climbing up the side or an all the way around kind of a deck and ramp set up.
3. Overhead netting via a tall pole or two in the centre of the ducky party area.
4. We have to consider how far any predator is likely to dig and how best to guard against it. It could be a case of digging down three feet and putting in a T profile of metal which projects both in and out of the enclosure to keep it stable and to prevent access by anything digging close to the fence.

5. I’ve seen a lot of poultry people use tanbark type media on the ground, but we obviously have to deal with waste clearing

   and replacing the media. That rise as a question about how we then dispose of the tanbark.

They obviously need a place to roost at night and in the cold, and we will work our way through the different options on that but it’s going to be a fairly robust enclosed structure.

We also intend to set it up so that we’ve got an option if the boys get too rambunctious to separate them from the girls, but not deprive them of quality of life. That could end up just being a partition down the middle of the enclosure at the relevant times of the year.

I haven’t really been able to find any books out there suggesting how to build something like this so it’s very much a case of looking at what other others have done and what has worked and what hasn’t.

Literally, just got her today at the market because my mom wanted new additions to the flock, my mom doesn't like her but i like her, literally this is the first time I'm holding her and she's already sleeping on me like she's known me her entire life... Nibbling me and following me around, her pair is terrified of me though but absolutely loves my mom. Has anyone ever tamed a duck immediately too? 😭😭, goodness she's so sweet

My two ducks had been laying eggs quite frequently but after I relocated them to a new place some 4 months back, they've stopped laying eggs completely. Initially they seemed a little sad and used to seldom come out but now they're quite adapted to the new place but they haven't laid any eggs. Suggestions please

Rescue said both of these ducks are Khaki-mix and female. Explanation for the voice of the darker one is that she had been screaming when capturing her for transport. I'm told they are 8-10 mos. old. This is 24 hours after transport. No drake feather.

Same person with the weird neck duck (see previous post) I’m wondering if it’s a stress response due to his duck friend/brother was attacked because he’s eating and drinking, and isn’t lethargic. He seems to be getting better while being with his brother.

Other than the neck thing he’s still himself, and we will try to get him to a vet asap but with it being Labor Day weekend most of them are closed

He was completely fine yesterday, his brother got attacked by a raccoon some point at free range but he was fine. He started doing this early morning according to my mom. Do you think it’s neurological?

EDIT!!
He lifted his head, quack still sounds the same and he’s still walking weird (given he’s a rescue that got hit by a car, he’s still walking worse) but he’s eating and drinking

My sweet baby boy has trouble walking but every morning he swims from one end of the pond to the other and then I pick him up and put him over in the shade with a water bowl