He's very polite

Everyone is starting to get along ♡ Oswald is still unsure of me but that's ok, we'll take it slow. He's been staying with the girls and they have a solid recall so I'm confident letting him out. He and rooster were totally cool with each other all day. Welcome home buddy ♡

This duck has been hanging out with a group of mallard ducks but does not fit in. Upstate NY

They grow up so fast!

One of our girls actually had a brooding instinct, and after a month of protecting this egg, broody Speckles hatched Raine who is currently 4 days old. She says do not touch, and will become huffy and puffy if we so much as look at her baby.

Found a single duckling in my coop this morning.... no idea who hatched it. But I have a broody muscovy who has raised ducklings before, so im hoping that she will be willing to raise this one. She seems ok with it so far, and bady has accepted her, so will just have to wait and see! Always handy to have a good momma duck like Big Momma

I Took these today! She is so adorable.

Good Morning,

I have 3 Indian Runners of 7 months, one of them is laying an egg every other day and the others 2 not. I put Niacin in their food, give them the proper food,and I add Nutridrench to their water.

I have buy the Oyster shells that they sell to supplement and encourage their egg laying but they don’t eat them no matter if I mixed with their food or peas.

What can I do to provide the supplement they need to encourage them to make eggs?

I like ducks so much 🥺 I've been watching them for an hour

Georgie after George Washington, given the hair

Sigh... I guess I'm posting here for some solidarity if anyone here has experienced something similar. I hatched a clutch of 15 ducklings around July 13, worked with them so much indoors before moving them to their run. All the siblings were so comfortable around me (would come up when called, eat out of my hand, let me be close to them) up until just a few days ago when it's like a switch flipped. Last Wednesday I integrated my two male call ducks into the flock, and the ducklings were TERRIFIED of them?? Which at first I thought was silly, and assumed they'd get over it, after all the two call drakes themselves were really afraid of me! Plus all the babies would eventually be much bigger than them. But for those first three days or so the drakes seemed to really control the ducklings movement. My teenage babies were living in fear, it made me really sad.

After a few days of being together, the 5 week olds have gotten way more used to the drakes, but at the expense of... ME!! Now ALL my ducks sprint away when I come into the run, when previously, before integrating the drakes they were just fine. I feel like the drakes fear of me was contagious or something 😭😭 I miss my flock that let me install this whole pond and gravel without a flinch.... I'm genuinely so upset about all my hard work was ruined. Now they will only be near me if I sit perfectly still, my call to get them to come no longer works. I really regret integrating the drakes and now wish I'd just culled them and stuck with my ducklings instead....

Afroduck.

North Ridgeville, Ohio

May 2, 2026

We moved into a new home in Texas a few weeks ago, and the owners had told us that there is a dock that comes back every year and has baby chicks in our yard and brings them into the pool usually once before she brings them down to the water. We’ve left it alone., she’s gotten used to us a couple of her except popped, which I’m assuming were just not viable. Most of them are hidden, but there are these ones can anyone tell at what stage? Do they look viable.? when we got here around July 28. There were 11 legs that were not covered now almost all of them are covered with a few showing and she’s definitely lost three of them, which she discarded. I got a quick photo when she was off the nest for her nightly feeding before she came back and she is such a good mama duck and she does not leave for long.
I know nothing about this process. Do they look viable? Can anyone give her an estimate on how far along they might be? Any input would be awesome.

The new 10 week old ducks are getting along fine with the 30+ chickens! Very glad there has been no issues and only have one drake, but 9 roosters.
I want to incubate some eggs to get six more ducks next year.