our brood

  • Thread starter Thread starter Anonymous
  • Start date Start date
A

Anonymous

Guest
Hi

Here are pictures of our ducks, we have a lovely new call drake called Colin. We have frankie and Rosie the Muscovies and the aylesburies ( yet to be named as we dont know the sex yet).

IMG_8550.JPG


Colin


IMG_8553.JPG


Frankie

IMG_8394.JPG

First trip outside

IMG_8566.JPG

And Now

.

Hope you like them.



Cheers

Annie
 
Hi Gretl,

Thanks you for the comments, we are fairly new to ducks and loving them

We bought them as Khaki campbelss at one day old, we have been reliably informed by everyone on this site that they are aylesburies because they have a pink beak. They are now very big and beautiful, although i dont hold out much for many eggs. Our call duck is laying very well though 5 eggs in 5 days. Now she has a boyfriend we are thinking of getting an incubator.

Cheers Annie
 
Oh that's great!
What do you do about the fox? I would really love to get some but we have a fox that often stands at the end of our field... We have 2 alpacas who in theory are meant to keep him away but I wouldn't want to risk it. My chickens free range when I am at home but if I have to go out we have a very large run for them... Not sure how I would protect the ducks? And do they need a lot of wateR?
 
Hi Gretl,it is only the male alpacca's that chase a fox off,or a dog.Are your's girls or boys?
As to regards water,it depends a lot on the breed of duck.All do appreciate water,but diving ducks will need a larger expanse that is also deeper,dabblers(which are most or all domestic duck breeds)can manage with a paddling pool or childs sand-pit then filled with water.Something like that would probably suit the bantam silver appleyards or call ducks.
Large heavy breeds like Aylesbury's need water to mate on if you're thinking of breeding ducks.
 
My alpacas are boys but they just don't seem that bothered by the fox. I have seen the fox in their field and they just carry on eating!
 
Hmmmn,all the sheep owner's around here swear by them.A friend of mine worked on an Alpacca farm,she said they chased the foxes and dogs away.Must be because your two boys haven't got female sheep or Alpacca's to look after.
 
My alpacas - male and female - 'point' in the direction of an intruder - sometimes its a deer but once i heard a noise and looked out to the paddock and they were all lined up pointing their heads and bodies - like a pointer dog - towards 3 foxes!!! The fox was the other side of the fence so I don't know if they would have done anything but it was worrying when some of them got bored and walked off! :o

In the recent snow I wandered around to see if I could see fox tracks and of course there were but it was very interesting that they went as far as the alpaca shelter - about 9 metres away - and turned and went in the other direction - showed the fox didn't want to meet the alpacas :)
 
We saw a fox the other morning and must admit that it has had one of our brood, which was a drake call who we had left out all night because we couldn't entice it in. (lesson learnt) We are currently look at building a structure to keep them in at the bottom of the garden, we thought that 7*4 metres would be enough. with enough water and a high fence.

We have run a risk as you can see from the ducklings our garden is exsposed. But thats what makes it great and i have triple fingers crossed as we have never seen a rat. We have recently dscovered a trough which allow all our birds to feed and that has really helped us and is far better then the circular feeder we had, lessm ould etc and needs filling every day.

We do have a dog alittle westie and she does spend a lot of time at the bottom of the garden

cheers

annie
 
annie said:
We saw a fox the other morning and must admit that it has had one of our brood, which was a drake call who we had left out all night because we couldn't entice it in. (lesson learnt) We are currently look at building a structure to keep them in at the bottom of the garden, we thought that 7*4 metres would be enough. with enough water and a high fence.

We do have a dog alittle westie and she does spend a lot of time at the bottom of the garden

cheers

annie
Click to expand...


Annie,you haven't lost my boyfriend Colin already have you!!!!!!! :o :cry: :(
 
Colin is there safe and sound, he replaced Mr Biggles (the one who was taken) We are going to take part in the garden bird survey today, i wonder if they allow you to count ducks and chickens,

See you soon

Annie
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Back
Top