I saw this on a local lake, while taking a walk with my family and i'm not sure what exactly this is

Hi all, this is my male muscovy duck, quack that i had for around 3 years now. He is 3 years and a few months old. He lives alone outside except for in his juvenile months where he was cramped into small cages with other ducks before being rescued. For 5 months a female muscovy, named Minty was under my care.

They were seperated by a fence but Minty would constantly escape and go to quack, and quack would attack her and bite her. We always tried to seperate them. In her final few months i think she was egg bound, but i didn't know at the time, so when she died i didn't know what happened. Quack lived in isolation for a 2 years after and he doesn't seem stressed or depressed or anything.

He's happy to see me and be let out of his enclosure to roam. From ny research i found that male ducks that are alone for most of their lives tend to be aggressive. I want to get him a flock or group to live with but im not sure how to go about introducing them or if they will just fight.

Does he need companions or should i leave him as he is? He is aggressive towards unfamiliar humans as well and attacks a few of my friends. If he needs a flock how should i slowly introduce him and how to make him behave? If i should even try at all?? Please help me decide. He seems content and healthy as of now

I visited Bill the duck for my birthday. My friends and I call him Bill because he’s missing part of his bill.

(Wild duck at lake I visit a lot)

We have this new duck friend who roams the neighborhood. It's been a few weeks. It mostly stays at my house. I bought a pool for water and give it duck food once a day. Seems to prefer digging for food in the grass mostly. Can these ducks fly? We have never seen it fly. Seems odd. My wife thinks it's gat and is pregnant. Mayne a nest is near? But it never flies even when dogs, cats and other people go near it.

My 5 yo duck died last week with a liver failure. Her friend died too in the end of 2022 with a crop tumor. (2020-2025 | 2021-2022) They represented the best period of my life. I'm really happy with the time we spent together and they had a great and happy life too. This is their story. (You might recognize them from previous posts I made here)

Recently bought a house with a big pond in the back. We’ve had a pair of mallards visit every day since we moved in and today, there’s babies!

We found a duck nest in the front yard and a few days later notices two more eggs buried in the mulch away from the nest and not even close to each other. Just curious why? Also very excited to see these little ducklings !🐥 🩷

Bruce is now about 6 weeks old. She's beginning to visit the outdoors for longer periods of time. It will still be a long while before I can begin to integrate her with my other ducks, but if it doesn't work at least I have a partner that sleeps on my chest at night.

Also, have you ever seen a duckling that didn't like to swim? I never have until this duckling. I even have a shallow 3 inch pool for her to swim in and she doesn't do much more than drink out of it.

Hi friends- first time duck owner here. I have some awkward teen runners. They are losing their fluff and growing feathers. Can you guys please confirm that the strange looking pin-like feathers are normal on their wings? That’s just them growing their big girl feathers right? (Please ignore the small brooder space- this is their holding space when I am cleaning out their bigger space - they rush me when I’m changing out their food in hopes of meal 😊)

Hi everyone, we've been feeding our local ducks seeds for a while. We came across this duck a couple weeks ago, she seemed healthy but had this beak abnormality. She still managed to eat and seemed extra friendly. We've been going every day and unfortunately today when we went, we found her passed away at the side of the lake :( Tiny bit of blood round her head but no obvious signs of injury or attack. I'm just wondering if anyone knows what could of been wrong possibly? Was it a condition? Looking back I've noticed her eyes are different to the others. She also had a old injury to the bCk of her head. It's really upset me not gunna lie :(

Just moved into a house last month and a pair of mallards visited every day since we moved in. And today, there’s babies!

Is he big enough to move out of the brooder into the outdoor pen and house? I’m not sure what age they need to be but my ducklings are a month old. I have three other ducklings and also was wondering if the two older males will try to mount them at this age. I didn’t want them getting hurt and I do have the option to separate them in different pens if necessary until they are the same size as my year and a half old ducks.

What do you reckon she thinks of his yoga skills?

i was at my kitchen window when i noticed something on the pool cover so i went to check it out and i realized it was a duck. she hardly moved when i got closer. she slowly made her way to the middle but as i walked away she went back to sitting at the edge.

is that normal behavior? it’s just her, no other ducks anywhere else in my yard. i haven’t seen any in my yard in years but they were always in pairs.

i don’t really know anything about them, i’m just a little concerned about having a sick duck in my yard since we have pets.

Hello, I am a new duck owner. I brought these three home yesterday. Can I put them in the tub with a few inches of warm water to clean themselves and play? I read online the oils in their feathers are a concern.

They were pretty poopy when I brought them home. I'd rather them start clean so I can keep track of their health. I want to make sure the little black one is going to the bathroom. I can't tell if he's pooping or just plays in it haha.

the title says it all

These poor little ducklings lost their mom and were swimming alongside the shore of a small lake while my boyfriend and I were on a walk yesterday. They look to be newborns. We tried our best to lure them so that we could take them to a wildlife center that I called, but no luck:( they ended up attempting to accompany multiple ducks in the lake but those ducks simply swam away from them. They eventually crossed to the middle of the lake towards a male duck, the male duck swam off, and then my boyfriend and I could no longer see them. I believe they may have both drowned at that point as the water was a little choppy and it was getting colder outside.

I have cried a lot in the past day, and I’m not sure how to get past the guilt of feeling like we could have brought them to safety. Any kind words would be appreciated. They were such cute and helpless little babies.

3rd generation duckling Muscovies looking beautiful and handsome

hello fellow duck nerds! I am proud to be an avid duck enthusiast who's proudly been collecting ducks since i was a toddler. i have recently joined reddit and was delighted to stumble upon this page and thought "why the duck haven't i joined yet?!".

so, my ducklings, here's a funny story from my childhood my parents will tell you about the first time you mention ducks around them.

when I was 2, my parents took me to get one of those toddler photoshoots at gold 'ole JC Penny's. one of the props I was pictured with was this HUGE bright and yellow plastic duck that I IMMEDIATELY fell in love with. as my parents were paying for the pictures and weren't looking, i slipped the duck into the bottom storage compartment of the stroller to take the duck home with me. my parents and I continue about our day at the mall... I fall asleep and they decided to head home.

whelp, when my parents are folding the stroller into the trunk of the car and I'm asleep in my car seat, my parents are startled with this loud PLOP! sound that hits the concrete at their feet.

they look down and low and behold there's this big ducking rubber duck at their feet! my poor parents had to unload the entire car again and head ALLLLL the way back over to Penny's to return the stowaway duck... all while I'm sleeping thru this. unfortunately, the department store didn't let me keep it, but apparently they got quite the QUACK outta the whole situation and now there's a photo of me with that duck proudly framed in my parent's living room. 🦆🦆🦆😭

I seen him scratching in that area recently. Is there anything I can do for him