<<<this image takes you to youtube We got a few ducks from friends recently and have been learning about them for 2 or 3 months now. The first problem we came across (remember we knew nothing about ducks) was our friends had given us 3 drakes and 1 female. I soon read up on the fact a drake needs 4-6 females as they are pretty rough on them once the hormones kick in. So we sourced 3 females and when they turned up, having chosen them from photos, it was obvious the two little call ducks are far too small for the drakes who are campbells cross and twice the size of the little ones. As spring was kicking in here this past two weeks I noticed the boys were squabbling amongst themselves and quite aggressively. So .... we created a bachelor pen and moved the 3 drakes out. My thinking is i also dont want a gazillion ducks where a lot of them might be drakes. After a short time of settling in we started to find 2 eggs a day - one dropped on t...
I am doing monthly walks around our place to keep track of changes - monthly, seasonally and annually. this month we received new ducks - 3 girls to add to the 1 girl and 3 drakes. the drakes are getting angsty as spring is approaching ... we must move two drakes out of the pen as they are fighting regularly. (i lose it in this video!) we may need to move the third drake too as he is very big compared to the new very small call ducks that have arrived. and within a day 'mini' (the apricot callduck) laid our first egg and has been laying each day. so sweet. check out our youtube channel and the playlists which feature various aspects of artist lifestyle in country Tasmania. i am googling and finding suppliers of oyster grit, pea pebbles, pellets and i soon learned (from taking note) they ate the candy (rolled oats, cracked corn, wheat) and ignored the pellets which are more nutritious. so now i feed only pellets and use the candy as a training t...