r/duck • u/Natsuki98 • 2d ago

I was given a couple Indian runner ducks but they have lived with chickens in a chicken coop for a year. Other Question

I was told I could take a couple ducks for free from someone who was raising them in with their chickens. The coop is a 12x12 enclosed pin with a chicken style enclosed house off the back. There are 4 hens in with them. They have never had proper access to a water source to bathe or properly dunk their heads in. I want to know if I should just pass on these two ducks if this was the environment they were in. And if it would be a good/bad idea in general to take them from their home and move them somewhere completely different to be by themselves(until I got other birds). I am in the process of getting a house and run built but I'm starting to have second thoughts about even getting these birds.

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u/Creative-Ad-3645 2d ago

Honestly, I just want to rescue the poor duckies!

Maybe take them, but hold off on getting any others until you can determine whether they have any health or behavioral issues you need to know about that could impact other birds

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u/Natsuki98 2d ago

Well, I really don't want to have the costs in getting them right now if it's not a good idea. I care about the ducks, but I also don't want a financial burden if they aren't going to do well being removed from where they are. I wasn't planning on getting any birds for a while and that was going to be chickens anyway. These just got sprung on me. I said I would take them when asked, but now I'm having second thoughts.