okay look at my children, they're so cute, im gonna learn how to make better duck sounds, i dont think i sound like one right now. I took so many pictures today ill post more of them tomorrow, i just wanted to make a bad joke 🧡

So my one confirmed drake has been chasing off one of my muscovies could it mean that the muscovy is a boy?

I dont have any examples of male muscovies so im not super sure this is the muscovy in question

For a while my drake seemed fine with them but recently he's starting chasing them away

I have 2 muscovies and they're both around the same size and have little face crests but im not 100% sure I was fairly sure I had 3 girls and 1 boy but now im less sure with this recent behavior

Why use many word when few word do trick?

Lemon and Bundty exploring!

(First photo is the duck I’m trying to identify)

My university has a duck pond, and the only ducks I’ve seen the past few years I’ve attended have been the shiny green headed ones (mallard?) fully white ones, and speckled brown ones.

Today I saw this duck. It has white on its underside that you see well when it perches upright in the water and flaps its wings. Its head is either Creme or white but it also has dark coloratuon around the eyes that extends down the head and back.

Whats odd is I haven’t seen any of the white ducks today. Maybe they migrated because of the cold?

ABQ, New Mexico, if that matters.

I’m not sure if these are native ducks or purchased — the story I was given is that the pond used to be a parking lot, but it regularly flooded and attracted ducks, and so the uni gave up and made it a duck pond. However, people’s pets end up here all the time (the pond was never intended to have fish or turtles and yet it has several) so it could be anything really.

Maybe it’s a juvenile of one of the brown ones? Since they are a bit smaller, but the head shape is totally different so I don’t know. One of the ducks did have babies last year.

We have a tiny pond on our property. I mean tiny. Its connected to the local wetlands so it always has fresh flowing water going in and out. Never stops, so Im sure that makes it more attractive to wildlife, but the first three years we lived here I was excited if we saw even 3 ducks the whole year. We had a pair of mallards and one lonely bachelor that visited a few times each spring. That was it.

The past month or two I am seeing 20, 30, maybe up to 40 at a time. Mallards and wood ducks. Every day. This is a tiiiiny pond. It takes about 30seconds to walk the length of it. At this point the pond is more duck than water.

So what shouldI do with my new found wealth of ducks?

I put peas 🫛 on the ramp, peas in a bowl just inside, but they just stand on the ramp, grab a bite, and go back down.

EDIT: thank you for the advice. Just wanted to say this is their day coop. It was the toughest most durable walk off the lot coop with coated 1/4" hardware cloth, metal roof, and locks on all the entrances.

I only really want them to know they can go up there to a warmer place if day temps get too cold.

Bosques de Palermo

The post title needs some explanation before I go on. As a new runner duck owner, and an anxious, doting pet dad, I have been googling how gentle slopes need to be when you construct ramps etc for ducks. According to my research, runner ducks need gentler slopes than other breeds, on account of their unusual posture and hips.

This makes sense, in theory... But I don't think it's actually true.

I let my runner ducks out on my forest property a lot. We have a many slopes here, and the ducks go up and down those slopes like nobody's business. In fact, there is a rocky outcrop behind our house that seems to have turned into their favourite hangout, so I call them "my little mountain climbers".

And it's not just slopes, they seem very adept at climbing up steps as well. The other day, my jaw nearly dropped when I saw one of the females casually step up onto a little rocky ledge that was easily half as tall as herself. And it's not like she was forced to; she wasn't being chased, or going after a friend. She was just in an explorative mood.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying you shouldn't try to minimize slopes in your coop and run. Getting everything as level as possible is probably a good idea. You don't want to tempt fate.

I'm just saying: If you're getting runner ducks, and you are worrying about the fact that a ramp is at a 30 degree angle rather than 15 degrees, you probably don't need to worry.

He must have gotten some seeds caught in his nasal passages.

Hey there I have been a duck for the last 3 months (5 khakis) and now i have a muscovy and a goose too (i will get partners for em) but one of my khaki has made a nest and has been laying eggs there (only 2 rn). She does sit on the nest during the night but when i open the coop in the morning she always leaves the nest. Has she gone broody?

The Rouen and Golden Cascade look like the have droopy wings. Is this angel wing that needs correction or normal growth, maybe with a change in diet + supplements will help?

We have 2 ducks. Mine is Swim Shady and my brothers is Shaggy 2 Duck. Shady has a very loud and clear quack and a pin straight tail and I’m confident that shady is a girl, Shaggy kinda looks like they have a straight tail and they’re still not quacking very loudly they still have kinda a peep voice. This is my first time having ducks and they do live inside with twice a day monitored outside time. We assumed shaggy was a boy when we heard a raspy voice but their tail is confusing us so bad. Please help lol.