I’ve had friends who raise chickens with minimal fuss, but I don’t know anyone who has raised ducks. They seem cute as hell.

Any advice for someone doing early homework about how to care for urban ducks?

  • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    17 days ago

    We had ducks when I was a kid. Not a super urban area technically as we had a decent size backyard.

    1. Males willremoved females who occasionally die in the process
    2. My parents would clip wings to avoid them flying away. They would be “free range” during the day and in their cage at night, for protection from raccoons
    3. They get upset if you leave them no eggs to roost, so my mom would boil the eggs and mark them with sharpie, then return them so they could roost. My sister always wanted ducklings and once went out and marked the unboiled eggs with sharpie so they could hatch.
    4. We just kept them for fun but we would give extra eggs (that didn’t get boiled and returned) to our neighbor who was allergic to chicken eggs.

    Not really great advice at all but just what I remember. Point #1 is what I remember the most. At one point, we had 3 females and one male, named Wild. He ended upremoved and killing his harem one by one. After the last female had been killed, we just gave Wild the death sentence by leaving him out at night for the raccoons and that was the end of our duck raising adventures.