Happy 1st birthday to my sweetest, sassiest, feathery boys! 😍🦆

All the mess you make is totally worth it for the love nibbles and the absolute joy you bring! ❤️❤️

Love love looooove my beautiful boys 😍😍

My parents surprises me with 3 pekin duckings.
It's been about 7 months since my last duckling died (unknown / natural causes) and have been waiting for spring time to come back around so I could get some new baby's and I finally have.
They are a bit dirty in the first photo due to them just finishing eating and drinking and making a wet mess of food😂 they have since been cleaned up

Duck pond has algae bloom clogging pump and hoses. Anyone know a way to kill it that is safe for ducks and geese to swim/drink? Thanks

Mape has been my best friend for quite some time ❤️

I'm a developer, not a duck keeper. I built an incubation tracker, and waterfowl were the hard part: some guides say to cool and mist the eggs daily from day 10, others say it's unnecessary in a modern incubator.

Right now the app schedules cooling and misting for ducks and geese once a day from day 10 until lockdown (day 25 for ducks, day 27 for geese, day 32 for Muscovy), with 15–20 minutes of cooling and a mist of lukewarm water.

Before more people rely on that:

- Do you cool, mist, both, or neither?

- From which day, and for how long?

- Does it differ for Muscovy or geese?

I'd rather have this wrong in a reddit thread than in someone's incubator.

Beelzebub impersonated him a few times (they were upset by a lawnmower)

Hi! New duck owner here- I got one of those darlings in June, two in August, and one last week. They are the best.

My question is I built this super sturdy hutch for them out of wood and hardwire mesh but now that it is October I know I need to winterize the structure for them. I live in Taos, NM so here it gets cold chilly and snowy!

The ducks sleep in this hutch and this courtyard is their enclosed run. They are inside the hutch only to sleep but none want to sleep inside the actual coop within the hutch. So i wanna make sure this structure is warm, weatherproof, healthy for the ducks for the winter.

Ive seen suggestions for polycarbonate panels, plastic sheeting, tarps, shower curtains, etc but really want to hear from more experienced people what they think.

Should i buy more wood and enclose it in that way from the outside? No expense spared.

Thank you guys so much! I love having ducks so much. They are my darlings!

I was riding my bike through my neighborhood yesterday and took a lap around the pond. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this beauty resting on the bridge. I’m guessing it must belong to someone and managed to get out of captivity. I’ve always wanted to see one in person, lucky day for me!

Today was my first time seeing a Shoveler, what an amazing looking dabbler!