Our Top 5 Reasons Why We Have Ducks rather than Chickens
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- There are many reasons to get ducks, but let's be honest, it's the top five reasons for anything that really impact your choice the most. In this video, we'll share our deciding reasons for why we love gardening with our ducks.
05:36 #1 - Slugs
06:40 #2 - Eggs
07:28 #3 - Permaculture
07:56 #4 - Cute pets
08:59 #5 - Dabbling in the farm life
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You have the happiest, friendliest, healthiest ducks i have ever seen.
Excellent 🎉🎉🎉 I subscribed to your channel and gave a like 👍 Thank you for sharing 😁🙏
The white ducks look like they just came back from the salon, nice do!
you had me at ducks... new sub for being as fellow duck owner, would love to see more people owning these feathered babies :) Im a Horticulturist (In latin that means cult of the soil tillers) my ducks are natural soil tillers, no training needed :)
The ducks poking around in the leaves was so nice to watch. They look adorable and very loved!
I relate to those feelings about those little feet following behind you. Lol good job farming 😁
We got both chickens and ducks. The ducks we only got two because holy cow are they messy! We actually just separated the ducks out from the chickens because they kept messing up the coop. Now both seems much happier.
Your crested are sooo cute! Nothing wrong with spoiling them 💜
Thank you for sharing!
Very cute.
I feed the wild ducks - duck food from the feed store.....I just love them...there is about 11 ducklings.....when I wave and whistle they run towards me like crazy........I wish a had a farm instead of living in Southern California......you have a lovely place...
I live in Southern California with horses dogs goats chickens ducks and rabbits
Breeding Guppy fish in pond will help u as good FOOD 4ducks
My wife & I have been thinking about getting a couple ducks in the future once we move out of our apt & into a home with a yard like you guys have. Right now we're just the crazy duck people who walk the couple blocks everyday 2the Fox River here in Illinois to feed all our duckie friends we've known since they were ducklings, even have some of them eating out of our hands as they LOVE the cracked corn we buy em.
Ha! I've been to the Fox River many times. My dad lives a little bit east of St. Charles and I once rented an apartment on the river in Waukesha. Although most of my memories were on the Chain O' Lakes.
Ducks are a mess.
You're going to regret it.
They're worth it anyway.
I went to tractor supply and the cashier was discouraging me from getting ducks because they're so messy.
I told him I'll regret it but I'm getting them anyway.
They were too cute and they were talking to me.
I had to.
Try to figure out the cleanest way to keep them all they take as little time as necessary for the upkeep.
Hello, we to live in Oregon on the central coast. Our slug problems are horrendous to say the least. We had runner ducklings at one point, but went out one day and they had completely disappeared, very odd we thought because they were in a large chainlink dog type run with everything they needed to get accustomed to our presence and our farm as they were about 4 months old when we got them. Not sure , but we found out that we had a neighbor that was less than scrupulous and was known for 'borrowing' other people's stuff in the dead of night. The thought was that he may hv needed a meal. Anyway, we're going to get ducks again this spring, much younger ones if not actually hatched by us. I'm excited about trying again. I'll be watching your vlogs now as I just subbed!
I LOVE how you love your ducks.I thought I was crazy for loving mine .
When you figure out how to make them "not pets" please share a video on that!
I didn't know I needed ducks.Then 2 were left at my house(7 months ago-my adult daughter"be right back Mom",long story).Long story short,found out I needed at least 3 ducks.So now I have 4.Now I want all the ducks and my husband is currently working on a self cleaning pond.
Very nice! Thanks for sharing!
I love ducks better than chickens. Our ducks are more peaceful than the chickens. The ducks are much bigger and when the chickens fight and chase each other around, the ducks get between them and protect the one being chased. The ducks are the playground monitors. 😃
Great video. I’ve hatched three in Scotland and love the sustainability
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!
Their little face and tail shakes are what get me. Even as ducklings they do the tail shake and it's adorable
I love this video
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 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!
9:40 5 reasons they keep ducks
I'm new to ducks, got them last fall for a month (just to learn about their needs) and ducklings this spring. Was surprised how fast they grow (I have meat Peking ducklings). They double in size every week: in 3 weeks they are bigger then my 6 weeks old chicks. At 7 weeks they'll be ready for butchering compared to 12-20 weeks for chickens. So, it's a great meat bird - better then chickens for this purpose.
For eggs I don't see any advantages compared to chickens - need to be about the same age or older to start laying, eggs are comparable in size with X-Large chicken eggs (for Khaki Campbell) and they're quite dirty most of the time (ducks are messy). And because keeping ducks in the winter is much more work then chickens (they need fresh water to eat and splash their beak in, chickens can eat snow if the water freezes) it's easier to keep chickens for eggs.
The other thing which make ducks superior to chickens is their down, if you need it (only waterfowl have it), but people nowadays use synthetic instead.
Anyway, keeping ducks in the summer is easy - no reasons to not get some during warm season. And if you ready to do the additional work during the winter - you can keep them year around for eggs, pets etc.
I've found 3.5gallon black buckets sat in the sun help tremendously in the winter. They also outlay all of my chickens, even hybrid layers. I have some ducks that have laid very close to daily for a year straight. Easily over 320. I still keep chickens as well and enjoy having both for different reasons! Ducks are definitely more work per bird so I always recommend a small flock.
Thanks for sharing....
Thats s great book
Though it was written a long time ago
Good reasons
I live in the deep south and have 4 ducklings and 11 chickens. The ducklings are messy in a pen, but I hope to have the large back yard fenced in by the end of the year. Ducks make better pets than chickens and they are better winter layers than most chickens.
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.
One evening a duck happened in my yard. It was dark outside and I recognized the sound but couldn’t see it. Grabbed a flashlight and ran out looking for it. I thought it was flying around the house then suddenly it came running towards me. It wanted nothing to do with me but I was able to catch it. Thinking it was wild with a busted wing a put it in coop with my two chickens. It didn’t come out for a week even though I left door open. Put a little container it can bath in, it loved it. Fast forward four weeks it lays tons of eggs. It jumps up into milk crate and I think it’s going brooding. Which is ok cause I have jumbo bob white quail eggs. Titusville Florida
I think I have heard the there is a muscovy duck population in Florida. Although those aren't native, some domestic duck owners must have let them loose.
Feathers & down; make pillows. Or reinforce inside lining of coats. Also sleeping bag insulation reinforcement. With sleeping bag reinforcement might possibly need additional material to lessen feeling of roughness however.
Tufted are more prone to seizures than other duck breeds. But if you like them that's OK.
Thanks for the tips! I also notice that if we only use the down feathers we find, then much of these don't have a quill that could potentially poke through the fabric.
@@GardeningwithDucks Thank you also. I really like how useful ducks are. They are more interesting to me than chickens. And they can be smart sometimes.
love the duckhawks on those white ducks
Omg their "hair"🤗 adowable
Well Native Slugs or Snail Species may have associated mutualistic ecological interactions with Natve Biota not quite fully understood. Ducks love wet conditions or ponds, pools, etc. , making ducks suitable for Pacific Northwest. Ducks, Native or otherwise do add complimentary nutrient waste component, making additional compost element good for plants needing nutritional uptake through farming or gardening. Large migrational flocks may add significant fertility input, as such a fertilizer of sorts, adding organic components to nutrient absorption to Organic or Transitionally Farmed products. Realizing the benefits of accomodating Native Wildfowl and other Bird Species through migrational zones associated with their Ancestral travels. Sandhill Cranes are an excellent example on the West Coast Flyways!
Well said.
We have both. We have RI red three hens and a rooster and two Caddy ducks
They are smarter than chickens and more personable.
I am so mad where ducks are concerned! But how can I get the crested ones?
I find them cuter, so I have 12 now.
Just bought another 10 this week.
hiiii do you have the link to buy the book that you said in the minute 4:40? Thank youuu
I do now, and more in the latest video, "A Great New Resource - Review of Ducks 101 from the Editors of Hobby Farms" - th-cam.com/video/gw-dnq4VmwI/w-d-xo.html
@@GardeningwithDucks Thank you!
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How well does organ maple compare to say red maple in nectar production for bees?
I don't know how they compare. But here's some information about the tree species from the local university; Acer Macrophyllum. owic.oregonstate.edu/bigleaf-maple-acer-macrophyllum
@@GardeningwithDucks Thank you.
😂 hahahaha so cute and funny i have duck at my home and there almost big.
Good reasons.
By the way, native plants are not invasive. That is a bit contradictory. But apparently your maple is prolific and messy.
I see your point. Whereas the Bigleaf Maple spreads more seeds than the average maple, technically it's not invasive here by definition- although it can be invasive elsewhere. The samara clusters in this maple are plentiful- similar to the Norway Maple and Sycamore Maple, which are also sometimes considered invasive. Anyways, we love our big tree! We just need to stay on top of cleaning up those prickly samaras the best we can so that they don't lodge in ducky feet and cause bumblefoot.
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. 👌👌👌👍👍👍♥
What do you feed a duck? A duck came and made a nest in my yard and laid eggs in it, what should I do?
@edstud1 I am not an expert on feeding wildlife nor necessarily condone it. But if you are going to feed them then greens, whole grains, or some leftover produce (all chopped up) could work. Also they love bugs. Around here, chicken food is the closest thing to duck food and we add some nutritional yeast to provide niacin (which ducks might also get from mushrooms I hear). I talk a little bit about duckling food in the duckling video. If they are in your yard, some chopped up dandelion leaves might train them to be good helpers if you consider that a weed. Bad food would be bread. Birds will eat bread since it's delicious, but it's not good for them and only ok as a small treat.
@@GardeningwithDucks thank you very much, you are so kind!
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.
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.
I thumbed up for "veritable smorgasbord"
We need help. I hope you see this. We have searched all over the internet, but can't find the help we need.
Our female ducks have been sitting on eggs. We separated the drakes from the ducks, for the soon to be hatching ducklings safety. Ever since we did this, almost a week ago now, non of the ducks will eat. They are drinking.
They are mallards. They can see each others habitats, not each other too well.
They are scared of me personally now as I am the one that picked the drakes up to relocate them. One female (we have three) seems particularly traumatized.
Another female, who is mainly on the nest, we haven't seen her come out in days. We have put food and water close to her.
If you can advise us we would greatly appreciate any help you can provide.
@younique_boutique I can't say I've had the same experience so not sure. You might get more responses from a message board such as www.reddit.com/r/BACKYARDDUCKS/ since it seems your issue might be urgent. My thoughts are that one of our ducks also seemed to avoid eating and drinking when getting broody, but when we left a bowl near the nest eventually our duck took a break to eat and drink. Perhaps she misses the protection the drake provides. As long as food is nearby, I hope your duck eats soon!
@@GardeningwithDucks Hi. Thank you for your reply. The three drakes are eating now. Not much, but eating. The ducks are nibbling. Just started today. The one duck has not left the nest, unless she got real sneaky about it. I did put water and food nearer her.
I have learned that this is common, for the broody duck. She stores up, preparing for her time on the nest.
The other two ducks and the three drakes, I do believe the separation traumatized all of them.
We have set it up where they can see each other better. That seemed to bring some comfort to them.
Again, thank you.
Did you says you go buck hunting with the duck?
The Restaurant next to my job got torn down and there was a huge pawn where there was hundreds of ducks and they recently filled up the pawn for construction. All of the ducks migrated and have died but there’s only four left at me and my coworkers are desperately trying to catch them and get someone to get them homes 😞 it’s been very hot here in Texas so they have a little pool and people beat them here and there
That is so sad 😢
Oh, & we've also thought about getting a Skunk to have as a pet, & maybe he'll buddy up with our cat. I knew a guy a long time ago who hand one, I've also watched several videos of people who have em. We'd have 2go2 an area where its legal to bring it into a vet to have the " STINK, GLAND" removed but we'd love to keep him with us, local laws be damned! Have you guys ever had 1 or maybe known somebody who did?
I have heard that skunks are a danger to ducks, so that is one thing to consider. We keep ducks and allow our cats outside, but I have heard that cats are also a danger to ducklings. We kept our cats and ducklings apart until our ducks were large enough to survive any playfulness.
What breed of ducks do you have
We have khaki campbells and white crested ducks. In the "Gardening with Ducks: Meet the Quackers" video and "Five things to know before getting ducklings" video I talk briefly about the breeds.
@@GardeningwithDucks I am getting some Cayuga ducklings this week
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 th-cam.com/video/dXXaKRVT1_M/w-d-xo.html . And you were right, it's four years later now and there is no way that we're ever eating our ducks 🙂
@@GardeningwithDucks Yes Thank You VERY Much…🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@GardeningwithDucks Sending Love and Thanks to You BOTH 💙💙💙💙💙
All those reasons are great but they dont answer why u got them instead of chickens
Can ducks be fed on compost like chickens?
Ducks do also eat food scraps,. There is a large overlap between what they and chickens like. We provide our ducks with extra greens, fruits, pumpkins, etc. before these wilt or rot.
@@GardeningwithDucks but I mean searching for insects, other critters and also fungi that can be found in compost. Not only food scraps.
@@krzysztofrudnicki5841 Their preferred diet are those critters, but we don't have enough critters for me to say whether it's possible for them to be full on only those. We provide them with poultry feed also, which is mostly grains. They seem to like the feed also, but they LOVE bugs.
@@GardeningwithDucks I read about guy who build a worm farm under duck coop/run. This could work. Composting wastes and providing food for ducks.
@@krzysztofrudnicki5841 You need a LOT of compost. I have dump trucks worth of broken down chip piles on top of getting produce from a store almost daily, and it's only a small portion of my flock's diet. They're about 60 strong though, with say 5 you could probably make a system that feeds them. Just know you need a LOT, haha. Worm farms, soldier flies, mealworms are all ideas for increasing self sustenance and feeding a small flock on top of static composting piles. My chickens really open the pile up for the ducks to get in deeper as well.
I just love thair manerisums so qute thay eat out of my hand and quack at me and I have a name for each one of them thay know thair name thay come wen I call them thay will fallow me in singel file sit on my lap nibble on my hands and thay talk to me and thay actually think I know what thay are saying because they look at me as if I should do something lots of fun just thought I'd share this with you❤
Wow, ducks give you a lot more weight in eggs than a chicken!
This is more of a duck music video
Another positive aspect is the duck's foraging is they will eat Non-Native species readily which can aid in reducing Invasive type species unknown ecological considerations such as European land snail on North American Species of Native Biota. Please do not encourage unrestricted import of Non-Native Species, realize your respectful intentions are respecting US Regulations of Importing Duck Species when purchasing Ducks.
In addition to eating the most common slugs- which are not native here in Oregon although the larger banana slugs are native- I have successfully fed our ducks the invasive brown marmorated stink bug when I find those (the green stink bug is native but not the other one). The ducks are such good helpers!
@@GardeningwithDucks Well Acer macrophyllum is extremely worm friendly, if no natural wet cycle post fall rake, mulch or cover with tarp wetting piles "liberally" then prepare pile beds before tarping them down with black plastic or what's appropriate. Green waste should attract worms on ground level to frequent or reside under piles for protective purposes, compost availability, moisture gradient under black plastic or cover, keeping it uncompacted revitalizes opportunities for mating, conjugation, etc., and establishes healthy zones free of above ground worm eaters.
. Time allows for composting and use of area for worms in area to reside in. Underercover they may have better reproduction in zone as not exposed to birds, etc. Spring or need of compost, 12x20 ft area or tarp, moisture barrier(tarp) should leave both good compost and provide under the tarp breeding opportunities for local worm community if on ground or containers with worms, for breeding and subsurfsce moisture, compost lightly placed or more bulk, for natural worm community area in your yard or piles.
@@GardeningwithDucks remember if you judt tarped the piles, it is your experiment yet once tarped down allow time for worms to naturalize zone, over zealous untarpings may reduce surface moisture under tarp or plastic( waterproof barrier) in my example or dosturb worms inhabiting site
The egg production of ducks means nothing to me when they lay eggs almost anywhere and are usually covered in muck. Gross. +1 for chickens!
Chickens are great too! If you'd like to see how most of the ducks eggs look, check out the duck eggs playlist: th-cam.com/video/QKi7FCsm2xE/w-d-xo.html
Hindhi plz big bro 😉
5 reasons we prefer ducks over chickens
1. They grow way faster than chickens
2. They are much friendlier
3. They lay bigger eggs, sooner and more consistently
4. They taste better than chickens
5. Our dogs don't go after ducks like they do chickens for some reason
I notice dogs and ducks tend to be kindred spirits.