Ducks

Ducks are in the family Anatidae along with geese and swans. There are several types of ducks the rarest being the Madagascan pochards. There are a lot of more common ducks too. We have one Khaki Cambell duck and a few Muscovy ducks, plus one that we aren’t sure of what type it is. One of our Muscovy ducks was sitting on a nest of eggs and 4 of them ended up hatching. 3 of the died right a way. We aren’t really sure why, but it might be because they hatched in a week where we were having exceptionally hot weather. One of them lived for about a week before dying unexpectedly too. One of our other ducks laid eggs under our deck and 9 of those eggs have hatched.  We yet have another duck that is sitting on a nest.Her eggs have not hatched yet, but we think they will hatch within the next one to two weeks. Earlier this year me an my dad built a duck house out of PVC pipe and deer netting. When we first built it the deer netting was getting caught a then ripping because of weeds. So we wrapped steel mesh around the bottom of the house. We captured all the ducks and put them in the new duck house. One of the ducks escaped because she apparently had a nest and needed to get back to it. We let her stay out and then a week later my dad was gone getting bees. Since my dad and mom were gone my grandma came to stay with us. That week it was really windy, and while my grandma was watching us the duck house blew in the air. The duck house was fine, it only blew a few feet but all the ducks escaped. They are still out but soon we will get them back in the duck house now that it is staked down. That is all I’m going to write today but I will keep you updated if the other eggs hatch.