Crested Duck

Photo 1: Sorry about the blurry photo I was walking and when I returned the duck wasn’t there
Photo 2: These are the ducks I believe to be mallards!

Hi everyone! I am currently staying at a hotel resort in Hawaii and they have a few mini ponds and in the ponds there are lots of what I believe are mallards. I’m not sure if the resort put these ducks here, care for them, feed them and keep them safe but there’s about 50 female mallards from what I’ve gathered living in the resort or just outside of it in these ponds.

When I was walking I noticed one white duck sitting with these wild ducks. I saw on the internet that if you see a white duck that means it’s a domesticated duck and they cannot live on their own and need to be caught if you see one. If this is true what they say about white ducks should I bring this to animal control’s attention? This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this white duck around here and I don’t want anything to happen to any of the nice ducks around this resort so thank you for helping me!

There's a lake nearby, and they all came out to be in the shade, I guess.

So over the weekend I saw that one of the wild mallards I go and feed has done something to her leg and I’m just wondering how/what she’s done, there’s also a male who did something similar in 2022 so I’m just confused as to what’s happened. This was the best picture I could get of her today, sorry if it’s not much help.

I was laying on the bench and had my black swedish who've we had for about 6 months on my stomach and I was playing with him by letting him bite my fingers, well he was turned to my right arm and was laying while holding onto my middle finger and pooped, I stopped and he then turned and faced his butt to me and I saw a white worm like coil with a yellow tint hanging out and it had ridges like an earthworm I lightly pinched it with my thumb and pointer and lifted it a little but then I felt a tug and it was sucked back in, idk if it was a parasite or something but I'm very concerned please help.

My ducks are laying now, they are 9 months, the all lay in the same nest box, if I wanted to let them brood and hatch babies, how do I do that? Do ducks have the instant to brood and hatch babies? What age does this happen? There are other nest boxes in the coop, but they seem to all like just one of them, they also do not seem interested in sitting on the eggs. How do you let your ducks have banies?

This is as close as Ive been able to get to my more-ducks-than-pond full of mallards and wood ducks. They seem to really like that broken down float.

Hi friends! Curious if anyone else has noticed that their Orpington/ Buff ducks like the cold?? I tuck them in around 8pm every night and let them out in their outside enclosure around 5-8am every morning. It’s been about 30-40 degrees at night and every time I open their gate to let them out, they come out feathers a blazin!
I know they are more cold tolerant, but I’m curious if they will be ok in the Ohio cold when it gets to be 10-20 degrees? I know they are rough creatures and they won’t need too much supplemental heat, but I’m also trying to plan for the -20 nights

I spotted her yesterday at the duck pond. :)

What a sweet little chatterbox!

And honestly, it wasn’t that bad! Within 5 mins of us going back inside, they were walking up it and exploring.

Hello everybody. We have gotten our first ducks on 12. August this year. They are three runner duck females and all about 1 year old.

One of them has laid two eggs in the first weeks we got them and since then we have not found any eggs. We were looking everywhere! They do have a bigger pond they spend most of their day on. Do ducks lay eggs in the water, and that's why we can't find them? Is it normal for them not to lay eggs when it gets colder? Is there anything I am missing, or do they need more time to acclimate to their new home?

My flock was being a bit difficult tonight but most of the time they're pretty good at it

They demanded treats before going to bed

I believe my duckling may have broke it's leg (hurt leg in image 1 image two is the other leg)
She (I believe it's a she) unfortunately jumped of me (I think she was the one who jumped off me? I thought it was the male that had jumped off me but I'm now now sure) and I didn't realise till I got them back to my room that she hurt her leg.
She isn't moving much and is not putting pressure on her leg at all. And as the image shows. It's very swollen.
I can't get to the vet till tomorrow as it's a hour away and I'm under 18 without my open drivers license and no car able to get there.

Sex: Female?
Age: about 2 weeks old
Breed: Pekin
Injury : possible broke leg or dislocated leg
Keept indoors as they are so young
Not spoken to vet.
Not tried anything as I don't want to make it worse.
She hasn't eaten or drunk yet but before the incident happened they had just had a massive big swim in the little pond. Which is when she last ate aswell

So my one confirmed drake has been chasing off one of my muscovies could it mean that the muscovy is a boy?

I dont have any examples of male muscovies so im not super sure this is the muscovy in question

For a while my drake seemed fine with them but recently he's starting chasing them away

I have 2 muscovies and they're both around the same size and have little face crests but im not 100% sure I was fairly sure I had 3 girls and 1 boy but now im less sure with this recent behavior

okay look at my children, they're so cute, im gonna learn how to make better duck sounds, i dont think i sound like one right now. I took so many pictures today ill post more of them tomorrow, i just wanted to make a bad joke 🧡

We have a tiny pond on our property. I mean tiny. Its connected to the local wetlands so it always has fresh flowing water going in and out. Never stops, so Im sure that makes it more attractive to wildlife, but the first three years we lived here I was excited if we saw even 3 ducks the whole year. We had a pair of mallards and one lonely bachelor that visited a few times each spring. That was it.

The past month or two I am seeing 20, 30, maybe up to 40 at a time. Mallards and wood ducks. Every day. This is a tiiiiny pond. It takes about 30seconds to walk the length of it. At this point the pond is more duck than water.

So what shouldI do with my new found wealth of ducks?

(First photo is the duck I’m trying to identify)

My university has a duck pond, and the only ducks I’ve seen the past few years I’ve attended have been the shiny green headed ones (mallard?) fully white ones, and speckled brown ones.

Today I saw this duck. It has white on its underside that you see well when it perches upright in the water and flaps its wings. Its head is either Creme or white but it also has dark coloratuon around the eyes that extends down the head and back.

Whats odd is I haven’t seen any of the white ducks today. Maybe they migrated because of the cold?

ABQ, New Mexico, if that matters.

I’m not sure if these are native ducks or purchased — the story I was given is that the pond used to be a parking lot, but it regularly flooded and attracted ducks, and so the uni gave up and made it a duck pond. However, people’s pets end up here all the time (the pond was never intended to have fish or turtles and yet it has several) so it could be anything really.

Maybe it’s a juvenile of one of the brown ones? Since they are a bit smaller, but the head shape is totally different so I don’t know. One of the ducks did have babies last year.

Lemon and Bundty exploring!

Why use many word when few word do trick?

The post title needs some explanation before I go on. As a new runner duck owner, and an anxious, doting pet dad, I have been googling how gentle slopes need to be when you construct ramps etc for ducks. According to my research, runner ducks need gentler slopes than other breeds, on account of their unusual posture and hips.

This makes sense, in theory... But I don't think it's actually true.

I let my runner ducks out on my forest property a lot. We have a many slopes here, and the ducks go up and down those slopes like nobody's business. In fact, there is a rocky outcrop behind our house that seems to have turned into their favourite hangout, so I call them "my little mountain climbers".

And it's not just slopes, they seem very adept at climbing up steps as well. The other day, my jaw nearly dropped when I saw one of the females casually step up onto a little rocky ledge that was easily half as tall as herself. And it's not like she was forced to; she wasn't being chased, or going after a friend. She was just in an explorative mood.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying you shouldn't try to minimize slopes in your coop and run. Getting everything as level as possible is probably a good idea. You don't want to tempt fate.

I'm just saying: If you're getting runner ducks, and you are worrying about the fact that a ramp is at a 30 degree angle rather than 15 degrees, you probably don't need to worry.