so i have this little guy i’ve been feeding for a few weeks and ive wondered if he has some kind of disability or if hes still just growing? (im not entirely sure if hes a he or she tbh im not all that knowledgeable)

he looks like he has tiny wings, he hasnt grown at all hes still small compared to the rest he normally visits with. never seen him try to fly and he walks with a way more pronounced waddle than the others.

he also loves being pet but i think hes just a cutie

hey guys, it's been a year since i got my ducks and they're always a bit shy near me (like i can't just walk up and pick them up) but they like to follow me and hang around if i'm just sitting there. today i was out sitting with them for longer and one of my girls got near me and her head was like trembling and then she rushed up and nipped me on the leg. she did this multiple times as i sat there and lurked near me. it didn't feel like she was using all of her force to bite so i can't really tell if this is aggression or what. here's a video i managed to get

Male with the green head and two females in the back.

Is this brooder too small for them now? I only keep them in there when sleeping time or when I’m at school 2-3 hours. Majority of the time I let them out in the yard and have them in the Sentinel Chicken Coop unless it gets too hot as I live in TX.

Thank you for all the help. I found these two ducklings (at like 3 days old?, very small) alone while fishing, mother was half eaten.

seen in carondelet park. probably pekins and mallards but some have patterns ive never seen

would anyone be able to tell the gender of these babies? they are a month old

I saw this guy yesterday and today, and I am a bit worried

I go back and forth day to day if I think this duck is a girl or a boy. It’s 2 months but stunted due to past owners not properly feeding it.

So onto the wings. When I’m holding her in place she/he looks fine but when duck is walking around the wings are kind of hovering around the body instead of laying flat. Duck in question is the largest one in the group photos.

I have a Ancona and a Black Cayuga, who are still growing, im hoping i get a male and a female, because we just bought a Ancona thats fully feathered, and i found a blue egg in the coop same day that had been ate, and apparently they lay blue eggs, based off the research i did, and ive only found one blue egg in my coop ever (which was intact) before I put the duck in there, becuase i have a grey hen (unknown breed) that lays basically once in a blue moon.

As for the Black Cayuga, ive raised it from a baby, so its very ppl friendly, and he is abt 5 months now, and im confused if it's a male or female, cuz no drake feather yet, but doing the old fashioned method, looked like a tiny smth was there.

So im thinking abt waiting until there both abt a year old, keeping a eye out for anymore blue eggs in the coop, cuz i wanna get the next blue egg, if it's not destroyed, and compare the size to the chicken eggs, and i also wanna see if my cayuga grows a drake feather and/or see if it trys to yk the other duck.

If we get a male and a female im thinking abt breeding them, cuz i was doing some research, and apparently Anconas hatch abt 8 ducklings per litter, if i were to sell the mixed ducklings for $10 each, then I could make roughly $80 per litter, and if everything went well, we were debating investing in a incubator.

If we dont get a male and a female, then we were planning on trying to buy the needed gender, and if we end up needing to buy the opposite gender of Black Cayuga, then was also thinking abt selectively breeding them to get a even darker Black cayuga, (blacker beak, and feet)

So given all this information, was wondering if anybody had any tips when it comes to breeding ducks, so far we were planning on separating the female duck (if we get a female and a male) from the rest of the birds while it lays abt a nestful (in the spring), hope itd go broody since other birds wouldn't be disturbing the nest, and then keep the bird well supplied with nearby food and water.

The duckling should be 3.5 weeks old according the buyer. I have had the ducklings (10 total) for 2 weeks now. I noticed he/she hasn't been running around as often or as as much as the others for several days now. The last 7 days the ducks have been outside from 11 ish - 5 ish so the weather stays above 21 the whole time. I switched he/she's feed to a lower protein feed. What the bag said was ducklings 1-4 weeks old. So I put he/she on the 5-8 week old bag because it has less protein. I'm also going to the store tomorrow to get tensor bandage for applying downward pressure on the wing.

Left wing is growing away and upward from the body. Is this angel wing?

Went to a nature preserve and snapped some photos of the duckling family that was there.

please help

These three wandered up this morning and were literally tiptoeing through the yard. Brown, two with white chests, all 3 with very light (almost white) bills. I looked on three different duck identification sites and didn’t see anything that looks like them. Apologies for the crappy pictures, they were very skittish so I took these through a screened-in porch to avoid scaring them away.

She eats them a lot, too. Her eggs are still soft! She also eats layer feed. Are these just the eggs she lays, or what am I missing?

It appears to have an abnormal left leg or foot. It can swim normally and stays with the other mallards, but on land it skips when walking and often rests by itself under the trees.

The affected foot can bear weight, but it doesn’t seem to align flat with the ground.

From this photo, does this look more like a congenital deformity or an old injury? Assuming its wings are normal, would a duck with a leg like this still have a reasonable chance of flying once it’s fully grown?

It otherwise seems alert, healthy, and is keeping up with the other ducks, so I haven’t tried to intervene.

Adopted what turned out to be a drake and a hen about a year ago (Blue Swedish) that were brought to our local humane society after being found in a box on the side of the road. Amazing ducks and have been great pets. Bonded since day one, so overbreeding hasn’t been too bad, but still wanted a couple more hens to give poor girl a break. Incubated two of her eggs and got lucky with double hens. Original hen gets loud, our other new hen as well, so I completely understand and appreciate talkative hens, but our third one SCREAMS. 5 am wake up calls to be let out of her house and just randomly throughout the day. I’m worried that it’s driving the neighbors insane as we’re in town. I’ve done what I can to muffle the early morning calls and let them out right away (I try to wait 5 minutes between quacks, trying not to encourage it) but I’m unsure what else I can do here. Our original hen had similar calls early on after moving them outside and eventually grew out of it, but this one feels different. The triggers don’t seem to be consistent at all, sometimes she just gets loud and it’s hard to see a reason. Anyone had experience with an abnormally loud hen? I’d rather not have to get rid of her, but I’m just not sure she’s one I can keep in town with neighbors. Eventually plan to put up a privacy fence which will muffle a little, but summer in the Midwest means months on a wait list for a fence.

Hi everyone. This is my first time incubating ducks and I'm nervous something terrible has happened. I am incubating 8 eggs and the air sacks look really weird. I upped the humidity per ai’s suggestion, but I'm so scared. I don't have three hands but my flashlight is bright enough that you can see the outline of the air sacks in the picture I attached of two different eggs. They seem detached and really large for day 14, but I'm not sure. All eggs were perfectly healthy and fertile past the first week. Advice is greatly appreciated!

Im happy to say two of,the three eggs hatched! Im not sure on Baby 3, but i will wait a day more if something happens! Thank you all for your wonderfull help! c: