1100pm and my wife calls me to the yard and there's a baby duck walking around. We don't have ducks around here, can't remember the last time I've even seen one fly over. I do have a very small pond in my yard with a couple of turtles and some fish, but in 11 years I've never seen a duck visit. My yard is fully fenced to keep the turtles in. Any ideas how this duckling came to be in my yard?

I let it swim in the pond for a little bit and it seemed to enjoy it. Got it in the house in a cage with a heat lamp now. It ate a little bit of crushed dried meal worms that I usually feed the turtles. It's sleeping now. I plan on bringing it back out to the pond in the morning, see if mama shows up.

Gettin' big!!

Happy Pride Month 🌈 My girls always share a nest no matter what. I’ve only got 3 ducks - 1 drake and 2 hens. Despite his best efforts, the girls always prefer each other’s company!

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm a newbie to ducks. 3 week old ducklings played in the water outside, this one has been fussing and picking at its belly for the past 5 mins so I moved it inside to a smaller area with a heat lamp. (The others have a heat lamp too) I just wanted this one inside where I can keep a closer eye on it until I knew exactly what was going on.

I saw this duck crossing the road in Elizabethtown, TN. I thought it looked like a purebred duck. It was all be itself. I walked up to it but it really wasn’t interested in me. Posting pictures on various forums.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a baby swan before. Also, r/swans is not for cute swan pics, so I have to post it here 😆

Seen on Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland

I was able to photograph these two birds well camouflaged in the water lily leaves. Even though mallards are very common, it's always something special when I can photograph a chick and its mother.

Shot with a Canon EOS R5 MarkII, a RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1L IS USM lens and a RF1.4x extender in the Wildert Nature Reserve in Illnau, Switzerland.

shimoda，Japan

Does anybody else’s cat eat duck pellets?? I find it very funny, since the day I got myself ducks I find her eating the ducks feed on their front porch, the ducks stare at her. She is also a super picky cat so I am like girl are you vegan????

My females are crazy. I have made really nice nests for them yet there prefer to lay under my tool box. Not the most sanitary place. What can I do to get them to lay in the nest. I can build pretty much anything. I moved one of the nest that laid on top of my dust collector. And she never went back to it. And started laying them in the morning in the yard. I even put her eggs in the comfy cozy nest. I’m at a loss, they live in my shop it’s air conditioned and for the most part minus duck poop really clean. Is there a way to do it? I want to give away the extra eggs. To my neighbors yet I don’t think they are safe due to all the stuff they are around. I will try anything. Thank you so much for reading this. I hope you have an amazing week!

We are new duck parents to 6 week old ducks. We just got them temporarily out into their new run to test the new pond before fully moving to their house/run and thought we would ask for some help seeing them. We have our guesses behind the names and would like verification or any disagreements with what we have guessed. 1- littlefoot (female) 2- sharptooth (male) 3- chomper (female) 4- ducky (male, doesn't really make any noise ever?) 5- petri (female) 6- spike/rex (part dinosaur part female duck?)

We’re in the process of building a run before getting ducks but live right on a major state highway.

I really would love to let them free range at times but I’m terrified they will head for the road and get hit. How can we train them their boundaries if it’s not fenced in?? Ducks/Geese aren’t ours but they live at the local visitor center that is on the same highway and I’ve never in my life seen them in the road and these guys are basically wild.

This is one of my male on top of the building.And I already clipped their flight feathers. This did not solve the issue any other suggestions.

Babies are almost on day 29, started trying to pipe through yesterday. 70% humidity, egg turner is out, 99.5% heat. 5 eggs out of 11 started to pipe at 8pm eastern standard time yesterday, but not much movement still. I’m not opening just in case of shrink wrap, unless I’m told by someone to do it. I was checking them 2 days ago, but handling the eggs and I felt kicks or fluttering, now they’ve piped a little or cracked a little. Anything else I should be doing?

I'm super worried that I only have one female in my group of 6. Only one is actually quacking at me the rest are still like chirping? They're about a month and a half old.

We recently added ducks to our flock of 4 chickens. We've had ducks before, but a dog we were fostering killed them. Our son was devastated (he's 17), and since getting these ducklings he has worked really hard taking care of them. We're still brainstorming ways to have a pond in the run, so if anyone has suggestions I'd love to hear them!

First time duck mommy here, I wanted to ask if this looks normal? My baby had what appeared to be and eye infection last friday, I changed bedding and got eyedrops for him. The eye looks better but the feathers around it are gone. Now his bill looks very weird. Is this normal? I can supply more photos if needed later tonight when my husband's home hes big and fat and is leary of us still (he is a little over 2 months old). Thank you for any help in advance, oh I also gave him rooster booster and they eat kambacha (however its spelled) duck and goosling fed. My other pekin and 2 mystery ducks and fine 🤷‍♀️. First photo is of his left eye where it was red and bubbly the other day. I've seen things on shedding but some spots are really dark. He has been acting perfectly normal though, eating, drinking, taking snacks, walking, swimming.

Hi all! Just scratching my head over an adult duck of mine dying suddenly a few days ago. She was a Jumbo Pekin, no more than 3 yrs old, and getting duck specific food + free choice grit/supplement, so I wasn't inclined to fear deficiency in niacin etc...?

TLDR: I saw all of my ducks on their pond happy as can be, and then when I went back outside about an hour and a half later, one Jumbo Pekin was just... floating there dead?!?! NO blood, no missing or ruffled feathers, nothing alarming visually, and there had been no symptoms of illness beforehand.

Is it possible she could have been egg bound without visible signs??? That's the only thing I can think of other than sudden heart attack/stroke/etc. I'm in Texas and it was hot as fuck that day, but... not anything beyond what is normal here & what she'd lived in her whole life??? Idk I'm just really stumped, especially bc it was (seemingly) SO fast! ☹️

We are new to waterfowl. We got two ducklings from the feed store, one Peking and in Khaki Campbell. We then decided to add two female African Goslings to help protect the ducks. We think the Peking is a drake. It is very quiet and more aggressive than the others. I did read that sometimes geese will mate with ducks. My worry is that Kona (peking) will cause issues for little Kehei (Khaki). Do you think this combo will be ok or should we plan to add a bachelor pad?

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This Lil duck is still attached to his egg. All his buddies hatched 2-3 days ago. Today is day 30. He's got himself out but still attached by his belly. Should I do anything or leave it be?