r/duck

Yes she's a female named Gunther she's actually named after the penguin from adventure Time

They are gorgeous birds!!! However, I thought they would most of their adult colors at this stage. I was wrong. We were banking on the 8 week mark to tell us what sex they were. Currently we only have 1 duck that has the distinct “quack”. Take time and enjoy the watermelon destruction, but someone please set my mind at ease that my duck purchase won’t leave me with 8 drakes out of the 9…

She has been in a separate pen for the last few days and now is free roaming with the other ladies, though we have to keep Esmond separate in a pen now to make sure he doesn't hurt her until she is 100% healed. She has been quite lively and happy and has finished her course of antibiotics and painkillers :)

Can somebody tell me the breed of the almost white duck in the second picture?

Got in bed with me

I recently built an outdoor run for my two ducks (runner and a mallard). They’ve got two pools, a blue kiddie pool and a 40 gal tub inside their little hut. Is there anything I can add to their run to give them some more enrichment. I already scatter peas occasionally into their pools but wondering if there’s more I can do for them

📍 Hedingham, Essex

📸 Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra

Hi! I made a post about this stuff before and I got a couple comments saying this looks like a domestic duck in the wild.

I've seen this little guy at my local duck pond for at least a year. (Could have been here for way longer)

This is around the Bay area (SF) where the weather rarely changes and there's ducks at the pond year round. This duck is the only one who looks like this at the pond all the rest are definitely wild. I also think you guys might be right because she does eat from my hand

Does that change anything and if not, Any idea on what to do?

There are four ducks that roam my neighborhood. One has been missing for about a week. I found her right by my front door. I don't use it very often, so she can take all the time she needs. When my daughter noticed, her excitement scared Mom across the street, but we're going to stay away so she'll come back.

Hiya, firsttime Duckie mom again :,)
This time i need help with the Airbubble.
Im on day 20 Incubating and im a bit worried about my Eggs. I googled, and read a Manual about the Airbubble. As far as i can tell two eggs have a nice Airbubble, but im worried about the third one as its way smaller than my other two. I air them 2x 20 minutes and roll them 3x times a day in the span of 8 hours. I hold onto a plan i got from a duckassociation recommending this. As i checked up on them, i noticed like insaid before the third one is very small. Google and the Brisea Manual tells me to lower the moisture so it can grow, as the egg is too "wet".
Is it just a faulty egg? Or did i do something wrong? I really need help, thank you 😩😩

These are our 6 week old Muscovy ducks; we’ve had them since they were a day or two old. I am completely obsessed with them!

I’m a first time duck mom so I’ve naturally been doing a lot of research, and at every stage of growth so far, I have yet to see photos of Muscovy ducklings that look like these two!

They have the front claws and single back claw which is standard to Muscovies but that seems to be the only similarity. AI has said they could be pied muscovies but I haven’t even seen photos of that type that look similar to these two.

Has anyone seen Muscovies like this at a similar age?

Kia Ora from NZ! This is the whio, or blue duck. It features on our $10 notes, but in my opinion, they are still extremely underrated.

There's less than 3000 whio in the wild right now, mainly due to habitat loss and predation by introduced mammalian predators. Whio are water quality indicators, as they are found only in our cleanest fast-flowing rivers.

They make beautiful whistling calls. This particular subject is a beautiful male whio I had 'conversations' with while he wagged his tail and followed me around his enclosure.

I hope you like this piece, it was created using gouache paints. It sat on my desk unfinished for months. Something about the surge of AI "art" really killed my creative vibe.

Dave and Dolly have had a million babies over the years. Not sure where the babies are now tho 😭😭

Never seen ducks perched like this. Either they’re flying or on the ground or water.

My 3 loves! I had a fourth but it passed as a little one. It was heart breaking. So far Louise is the boss of the trio but as they get older I worry about her with 2 drakes.

But, we have 10 more baby hens to join Louise.

Just like the title says we found the duckling outside, abandoned, in around 100 degree weatheand abandoned. Are there any duck experts out there that can give tips on raising, such as what to feed them and how to set up their enclosure.