Follow Sabi and Wendy to Oregon, where the wet winters are one more reason why it's great for backyard ducks. Roundy, Big Poof, Lightning, Blueberry, Strawberry, Gácsér, Grey, and Sprinkle love the rain! While we've been determined gardeners and orchardists since 2016, the ducks joined the party in 2020. Our ducks are doing a great job at helping us incorporate some permaculture into our activities; they eat slugs, provide "cold" fertilizer, and they're just the cutest pets! Of course, they also lay plenty of eggs.
While planning for ducks, it wasn't easy to find as many perspectives as we could about chickens. That's why we started this youtube channel about ducks for gardeners like us. Please do suggest topics, add questions, and share your experiences!
Check out our playlists that make it easy to choose videos with specific content or if you're just interested in watching our ducks comment free to music.
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Italian vs Brooks vs Stanley vs Daweson? Sweetness
How do they know which ones are theirs?
I don't think it matters to them. The three eggs that they hatched happened to be the three eggs in the clutch of nine that were Big Poof's eggs (and not Strawberry or Lightning's eggs).
hi bro i am from Cambodai i am very happy when i see your video thank for show❤❤
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2:06 sharing acceptance?
Wow, ducks give you a lot more weight in eggs than a chicken!
I’m glad I found your channel. Learning a lot. I wound up with 4 little guys right after Easter (early dumps) and am learning as I go
Hehehe the boys are like let me at em :) Good repurposing! And I love the sassiness of ducks/such a joy to be around :) x Raven
This is more of a duck music video
I never knew ducks ate slugs until yesterday and then your video supports it.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I have been trying to figure out what was wrong with my white crested duckling, 1 week old, and this video helps understand why it is happening. I wish the best for her❤
All those reasons are great but they dont answer why u got them instead of chickens
Excellent 🎉🎉🎉 I subscribed to your channel and gave a like 👍 Thank you for sharing 😁🙏
Perfect Vid, I needed this … THANK YOU !!!
Ok, I love this Vid. I rescued 3 baby domestic ducks from someone who ordered them In the mail. I have had them for 3 weeks in my kitchen and I love them, I am seeking some suggestions on how to shelter them when they are finally ready to go outside. I have seen many different Duck houses and enclosures on the Internet. They vary from cute lil houses to 1800 dollar sheds. HELP. I have had chickens and piggies before. I have raccoons that live here that I feed so I know the Ducks need Safety, ANY help would be MUCH APPRECIATED…. Also, I am Vegan, and seeing the way you both love your animals, is Beautiful, so when you said you wanted to learn about animal husbandry, but you have to stop treating them as pets, I think that you are loving and compassionate people, and for you to raise animals to kill for food would not sit well with your spirit . You already know. Anyway, sorry for the tangent…. Thank you for your time !!! 🐥🐣🐥
They need a wooden coop, at least 4x6ftx 2/3 feet high that is solid and raccoon proof at night. Be sure it has safe ventilation. If it's on legs, the ramp should be long and the doorway wide enough for 2 ducks to enter at once. Try some university websites ( your state university extension, i.e. ' Pennsylvania University Extension' ) for science based info. Chicken wire - poultry netting- will not stop raccoons.
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I saw from your other comment that you found our playlist kzread.info/dash/bejne/loyMw62LhreXj7A.html . And you were right, it's four years later now and there is no way that we're ever eating our ducks 🙂
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Very cute.
Add little carbonated water,it will make your dough spongier and more pleasent
I would love to have ducks but I want Muscoveys. Had them as a child on the farm and they wouldn't bother the neighbors with the quacks. Eggs would be eaten by dogs as a supplement.
Can you clip the wings so they wont fly away?
WIth the breeds of ducks that we have, this isn't necessary. They can only fly a few feet above the ground. And they like to stay near their team of ducks so they mostly choose not to fly over the fence. A couple of breeds the do fly include call ducks and muscovy ducks.
nice comparison. but they forgot to mention the pool that the ducks need. and it must be cleaned 1-2 a week and filled up with water again.
I find them cuter, so I have 12 now. Just bought another 10 this week.
Hi, really like your videos. Do you you feed your ducks once a day or do you constantly provide food for them all day?
We are home most of the time so we replenish their food throughout the day. That way, if a food bowl spills then it isn't a full day's worth of food that spills. On the occasion when they are hungry and we open the door, they're happy to come right up to us an let us know! Their instead to be so cute will surely keep them fed :-)
I have two duck one started laying do i pick them up the eggs or do i let them remain to hatch?? am new to this thanks
In my opinion you can pick up the eggs as long as you can. When a duck hen is broody, they'll let you know not to take their eggs. We have a video of what it looked like when two of our ducks become broody: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y22drcuMnNK3lrA.html
Nothing like their morning chatter and excitement. My ducks were going crazy over white butterflies that were every where (moth cabbage - not real butterflies per say) Id spray the hose on the flowering herbs to stir them and then the ducks would swoop in to catch and eat as many as they could. I dont think I could enjoy life without my ducks now I have them, theyre another world :)
I love the chatter! I'm glad you you agree, even though my video quality while the sun was rising could be better. The moth cabbage story is sweet, I bet your ducks were real fast!
Pls can same one tough the egg
Pls can same one tough the egg
Thank you Gardening with Ducks! ☺
wow your Duck look so cute❤❤
for us add, Duck fat from meet and eggs is considered by many to be healthier, it only takes a 2 foot fence to keep them out of your garden, when allowed to forage widely they don't roost on your tractors and equipment and ruin the paint with their poop, duck egg whites whip up stiffer and stay up longer - the whites don't disintegrate when you poach them, there is no need for expensive houseing a piece of plywood leaned against a wood pile works great. If you haven't figured it out i'll just say it out lowed i love ducks!
Thanks for the information I had a dog that has seizures same thing caused by her breed I'd just keep doing what you do & extra vitamins won't make them go away but won't hurt either
Duck is One of my Best Favourite Pet Bird since at Childhood and forever alway,s. And other,s Bird,s also like Pigeon, and Parrot etc are my Best Favourite Pet Bird. 👌👌👌👍👍👍♥
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We have seven ducks in total (six girls). Our flock is mixed: two white crested, one Khaki, one Ancona, two Cayuga, and one mix between Welsh and Appleyard. They are consistent layers. The first year, we had eggs all year round. This year, they slowed down. We had some days with no eggs, but we are back to 2 a day. I also started to keep track of their eggs per day a month ago or so. Funny to see that I am not the only one 😁
I started with 9 chicks, 4 years later the 9 chicks have turned into 59 chickens! A really good thing I took the advice I got online and built a larder coop then what I thought I needed. 12’X12’X 8’ high, so I can stand inside the coop to clean it out. This last year I bought 3 ducks and 2 geese. The ducks are quite nice to have around and don’t do too much damage and really not that noisy either. The geese on the other hand are extremely noisy, especially when they see or hear me outside. They come squawking and flapping their wings running as fast as they can to get to me. They’re somewhat like a dog that wants to follow you around and they get so excited when they see you. They also make a lot of noise when anyone or predators come around the geese will let you know something wrong! Bad part is the geese love pulling and chewing on most anything that moves like electrical wires or TV cables, etc. Got to either make sure you’re geese are kept in a secure location or keep anything that geese can chew and pull on inside where geese can’t get to it! Got to say the geese are a love/hate relationship! 😂 they made some extra work for me having to do some rewiring that the geese destroyed! Now I have to really think when I’m going to run any kind of wires or cables, etc. if the geese can get to it? Then I have to protect the wires or cables in conduit or pvc pipes and anchor it down where the geese can’t pull on it! Still there’s just something about the geese I get a kick out of. Although the geese can and do scare some people away hissing at them! 😂 Geese can be mean too! Another reason to give the geese a good size enclosure to keep them out of trouble. So far mine are free ranging with the ducks and chickens from sun up to sun down. Well this time of year the chickens go in at dusk on their own. But ducks and geese need some personal attention to get them to go to bed in a safe enclosure. Usually I have to wait till least 9-10pm to get the ducks and geese to go to bed without having to play run around the enclosure several times before they go in! Think I have one duck that’s a make (Drake) and other 2 are female since I got a couple eggs from them. The geese look like I have a male and female according to what I have read the male has larger legs and feet and the geese do have different size legs and feet! But no eggs from the geese yet that I know of anyway? Still waiting to see a goose egg!
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Thats s great book Though it was written a long time ago
Your reasons are my reasons, except here in south Florida we have so many bugs. So many. So bugs instead of slugs. I’ve just started this journey, my four little girls are still in their bathtub brooder but growing quickly. It’s fun to see you with your four girls.
This is like when parents watch their kids try ice cream for the first time
I have 8 Khaki Cambell’s ducks. They started laying eggs in the middle of this September and they have been do it religiously-8 eggs every morning. It happened 7 eggs only a few times. I presume, and according to your data, they are going to slow down during the winter months?
I can't say for sure, but if your climate drops below freezing then my guess would be that there may be a break in laying eggs during the winter. I'm interested to hear what happens.
We live in Scotland, so it will be below zero in some point, of course. Actually, it has already happened a couple of times. I will let you know about our experience.
I like ur set up. The babies are so sweet!
I’m sorry about the baby duckie. Seems like we always loose one by the time they are grown up.
Great idea with the towel ! I have ducks too. I just subbed. 🪿🪿💕
i love ducklings at this age. mostly adult-shaped but still with so much fuzz
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It’s because it’s a crested duck that puff is a hole in their skull
Thanks for posting this my crested Cayuga’s exhibit the same behavior
Do you have to clip there wings so they dont fly?
The short answer is no, we have never clipped their wings. Here's a clip that shows a typical flight. Our ducks can't fly much farther than this. kzread.infoUgkxMfRzrLAAEBFiE5KpPaNHRMel6m1WfXxA
WHAT CUTIES THEY ARE!
Just beautiful ❤️ can you share how you take care of the duck pools, in the future?
Absolutely! I plan to make more videos for the "Water" playlist eventually. There are some videos on there from the past as well: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lpmqxqWHmpPWoqQ.html
@@GardeningwithDucks thank you, I didn’t realize your playlist.
So Precious!!