So, we got a duck...

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dawp

Lifer
Jul 2, 2005
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is it lame?


some can be mean ankle biters. my ex had some and one would chase after ya and nip at your ankles.
 

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
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I got a couple of Mallard ducklings when I was a teenager. Stray dogs eventually got 'em, but they followed me around the neighborhood like dogs for a couple years. I just dug a little hole in the back yard, threw a plastic tub in it to make a pool and let 'em go wild. They loved walks down to the creek where they could sift the scum for food.

Years before them some large domesticated ducks just came walking down the street one day and we took care of them. One was white, one gray/black, one male Mallard-colored (too large; likely a sterile hybrid). They were all the same size (large!). We named them Bobby, Pesto, and Squit after "The Goodfeathers" (Animaniacs was a new 'toon back then). We eventually added a fourth, smaller, duck that we found with a hurt foot at a lake (named "Claudia;" Latin or Greek for "Limping Girl" IIRC). It got healthy, but shortly after a stay dog got the large white one and so we took them all to that same lake and left them there.

Advice? Watch out for dogs.
 

Beanie46

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Feb 16, 2009
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Could be a Pekin duck, could be a Call duck. Both look much like each other.....calls are smaller, about the only noticable difference.

Link to breeds of ducks, starting with Call ducks.


We've got three Call/Pekin mix ducks. And while they are quite a bunch of characters, qutie funny, I cannot imagine having them live in the house.

Why? Ducks poop everywhere ALL the time. They poop while they're waling, poop while they're eating, poop while they're breathing.....just poop everywhere, all the time. And it reeks if not cleaned up immediately.

Ours are pen-kept during the night (a 25' x 30' pen) and allowed to range the property during the day. The mostly keep to the pen, though.....that's where their "pond" is, a kid's 6' wading pool. I empty it daily, hose it out and refill. They go wild with bathing as soon as the pool is filled half-full and continue for an hour or so, playing in the water....and they also immediately poop the water brown during this.

For food, we started them off on Purina Start and Grow feed. Commerical blend of fowl food, medicated to help the bird grow its immune system and fend off diseases while it develops. At around 5 months of age, age of maturity for ducks, we switched them to Layena feed by Puringa.

Why the commerical stuff? Well, cracked corn is great, but rather lacking in complete nutrition for fowl....can be used successfully as long as the bird has access to outdoors all the time to source other sources of protein (grubs, insects, etc.)

We chose the Purina stuff because, unlike other cheaper feeds, Purina uses no animal/bird byproducts in making the feed.....all vegetable based.....and a host of added nutrients, like extra calcium, Vit. D, manganese, etc.

Did I mention they poop.....a lot? Get ready to deal with the proverbial shit storm. It is coming!

Good luck with the duck in the apartment, although I really don't think it's suited to living like that, and you'll give it up pretty quickly.....noise, poop patrol all the time, the duck will try to "eat" anything it can put its bill on.


 

dotcom173

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Jan 16, 2006
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haha, uh, he stunk the crap out of our room because my roommate didnt clean the cage and let the poo/water/food mess build up. I dont blame him, the duck could turn a perfectly clean cage into a sewer in 4 seconds flat. Anyway, we gave it to my buddy who has a house, rather than apartment. He has a backyard with a chicken coup and a couple of chickens. I Figured Charlie "The wildcard" was better off there. Thanks for your concern.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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Thanks for the update. I had my doubts about the viability of an apartment duck, but the idea was intriguing :^)
 

JTsyo

Lifer
Nov 18, 2007
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Wasn't on Friends with the duck and chicken as pets? Wonder if the duck realizes he can fly when the time comes.
 
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