We love these 2 and couldn’t imagine not having them around. They are miniature so the drakes doesn’t bother our chickens. A full size male duck may be aggressive with chickens and could hurt them if he tries to mate them
@@BockBockBouquet We raise ducks with our chickens. Different pens at night but same run during the day. I've never seen a drake try and mate a chicken but they do get pretty snappy towards the chickens if they are in their food or drinking from their pool. Other then that they do fine, always lay together under the shade trees. Your ducks are adorable! Love the video.
I had a Drake like yours, so beautiful. His name was Zzinger. Very smart bird. We would play a game of football that no one would believe until I showed them. We would both stand at the line, and he would let me run out and then fly right to me and allow me to catch him like a football. People really couldn't believe it wasn't a fluke until we did it twice in a row right in front of them. Big laughs. A redtail hawk got him when he was about 3yrs old. That was 15 yrs ago, and he is still a legend. Zzinger the Nuttyduck.
Thanks again for your great videos! Have you ever had a problem with chickens and the pond? I just had a silkie that appeared to have drowned. She was smaller than any of the others.
Where did you get this pool from? Been looking for a kiddie pool for about six months the now and no luck lol. Also how did you get the ducks use to you? We just purchased 10 Welsh Harlequin ducklings and they are constantly running from us. They are five weeks old.
Oh yes they are so hard to find and with the panic buying this year it was even harder lol. The sporting good stores like Big 5 will have them in the spring/summer. We got this little one from Big Lots. The pools are seasonal so I don’t think you’ll be able to find one this winter but once they start selling all the pool stuff they’ll be around. These little call ducks are more bred to be pets and are a less scared, skittish duck. We find the bigger ducks are a bit more fearful. Yours are still very young and will calm with age especially after they come to age of laying. They are food driven though, and we feed them Grub Terra (black soldier fly larvae) out of our hand. Hand feeding them treats is the best way to tame them and frequent handling. Our big ducks in our free range flock now follow us around everywhere and we can pet and hold them because they are complete Grub addicts. They see us from an acre away and start honking like crazy and running to the fence line hoping for snack 😂
@@allthingzacnh1210 Good to hear! We will be posting our new cayuga ducklings soon, it will be a video from ducklings to full grown, we are still filming
Oh your wee d'uccle roo sounds more like ours does now (I left a link to his crow video on my comment over on that vid) . Funny that mine never did the 'trill' crow yours did when young. But I see you have the same 'I NEVER stop crowing' attitude as ours 😀
Yes he’s the man! 😂 when he was crowing as a chick he would only do it in that one area of the garden while we let them have play time. He never did it while in the brooder. We thought maybe he just felt super confident there
are you sure they are ok with fresh water from the faucet? Some years ago I installed a chlorine / fluorine filter to take showers and it felt different (and fresh)... so said for example, if you give you pets some water to drink or to play with, it may be better to let it stay overnight so most of the chlorine / fluorine already went away
Oh I know what you mean, I used to have an aquarium and ran an rodi unit to make pure water with 0 tds so am familiar with testing the water. Luckily our water here is good our babies are safe drinking from the tap. Coming out of the hose it kind of their favorite part in the pool filling daily ceremony lol they have so much fun during the filling part
I just adopted two ducks and, while I love them, they’re pretty messy. How often do you change the pool? Do you drain it there in the run or does it drain from there to somewhere else?
We drain the water and refill it like every 2 days most of the time or whenever we see it too dirty. We dump it in their run and gets absorbed in the dirt
I love your little call ducks. I see you live in Lancaster, Ca, I live in Palmdale and I was wondering where you got your call ducks? I have been looking and cant find any.
Thank you we love these little ducks! We just recently added some bantam East Indies ducks to our call ducks flock. We found them on Craigslist in the El Monte area. We will also be trying to hatch their babies this summer
I love this. I see a lot of people with ducks and chickens...what are the benefits of having ducks? I'm getting chickens next week and I'm super excited and your videos helped me out a ton! Thank you 😊💓
Glad to hear that! ❤️ we just love them as pets, they are super silly and fun to have around. Nothing like seeing a duck enjoying swimming it’s very cute. We like to eat their eggs as well. One drawback is you have to clean out the chicken waterers often because the ducks love making the waters very dirty lol
We always introduce through a fence for a week or 2. We use a small pen/brooder or even a dog kennel would work and let them get acquainted through the fence before removing it and releasing them together. We find this works best for easy smooth integration. But honestly we notice that chickens and ducks don’t seem to mind each other as much, much like they arnt on each other’s radars 😂 ducks will pick on new ducks… chickens will pick on new chickens. We find that new chickens don’t seem to pick on new duck additions
For white call I believe you must breed white to white. White is a recessive gene. There may be a possibility, but all duckling we have hatched so far have been snowy. But I am no call duck geneticist lol. I’m still learning
Yeah it depends what kind of bedding you have, we have sand it absorbs a lot. I would think grass would be the best and least noticeable especially since it gets watered. On a path or concrete you would have to hose it down lol
They are both call ducks, the white is a white call and the brown is a snowy call. There are different feathering colors that have different names, he is called snowy
Lancaster, CA? do you need to have millions before you can afford a house to have chicken and ducks and so your neighbors are far away and won't complain? In the SF Bay Area, some people joke, you can come from a place where you grow your own organic vegetable, and come to the Bay Area and struggle for life, and when you make $5 million dollars, then you can buy a big house to grow your own vegetable
Oh this is definitely not the bay 😆 you can google it. This is the desert in the middle of nowhere so no one wants to live here so it’s cheap 😂 we are looking to move somewhere else someday, cheaper than California as a whole and green with grass and rain ideally 😅
Yes! I would only worry about a large breed drake breeding a small call duck female. We have call drakes with our large Cayuga and Muscovy hens and they all get along great
Diese Enten sind Mini-Enten, domestiziert wie Hunde, sie sind keine wilde Rasse. Der Pool ist groß für sie und sie verbringen Zeit im Haus, sie sind Haustiere und ein sehr glückliches Leben. Wenn sie nicht geschützt sind, können sie sehr leicht von Raubtieren wie Falken gefressen werden
Maybe not show quality, but please elaborate on your thoughts? They were from a call duck breeder as pet quality, with of course an affordable price point in comparison. We aren’t showing them. We also now have an East Indies. But compared to our large ducks, cayugas, runner, Muscovy, even way tinier that mallards.