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⌈ Secret Post #6355 ⌋

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Re: All purpose question and advice thread

[(Anonymous)]

I have some chickens in my yard, and I find keeping them easy.

Is adding ducks much different?

Re: All purpose question and advice thread

[(Anonymous)]

I have found that ducks have a lot more personality, for lack of a better word. They are a little more noisy and chaotic than chickens. But I've only had two ducks so maybe it was just them and not a great indicator of the species as a whole.

Either way, I say go for it!

Re: All purpose question and advice thread

[(Anonymous)]

How do ducks just not fly away with the seasonal changes?

Re: All purpose question and advice thread

[(Anonymous)]

I think that the domesticated duck breeds probably don't have that instinct any more. I'm definitely not an expert, though.

Re: All purpose question and advice thread

[(Anonymous)]

Most domesticated duck breeds don't have strong enough flight muscles to fly any great distance. If you have flighted breeds you can clip the wings, this just means trimming the feathers and doesn't actually hurt the duck, if you want. You don't have to though, as long as the food supply is steady they'll stay put. If the food supply is steady enough, and you feed outdoors, you might even get a few wild ducks joining your flock; and they'll stay all year too.

Re: All purpose question and advice thread

[(Anonymous)]

This seems helpful! https://www.backyardchickencoops.com.au/blogs/learning-centre/integrating-ducks-and-chickens

Re: All purpose question and advice thread

[nanslice]

Ducks need a bath or small pool or something so that they can swim. It needs to be cleaned daily. They poop a lot and everywhere. They are much louder than chickens (unless you've got roosters). I adore ducks but they're harder to keep than chickens.

Re: All purpose question and advice thread

[(Anonymous)]

Ducks need something to paddle around in and will, if they possibly can, also splash water everywhere and dig their bills in the resultant mud looking for worms. Iirc they may need slightly differently formulated feed.

Also when I was a kid my mom brought home a rescue duck from a coworker whose flock had all been eaten by raccoons except the single survivor, because the coworker knew we had hens and didn't want the one duck to be lonely.

The hens were fucking terrified of that poor duck at first. They were standard hens, not bantams, but she was a meat breed and enormous. She'd follow after them quacking while they scattered away from her.

They did get used to each other eventually.

A year or so later, she got sick with a nasty respiratory illness and died, but not before passing it on to most of the hens.

If they share food and water, the ducks will do their damndest to turn the dry food into mush and the water into mud.