[madcat]

    Where are you going to keep the ducks so she doesn't know about them? 

(Shhh, inside secret  ... wives are very good at not noticing things to their advantage!  Back seat of the car ??)   

[Madrat]

lol.

Not actually getting the ducks, just house and pool.  Will get them after Christmas so she can pick them.

Can you imagine trying to conceal ducks!   "what's that quacking"  "its me I have wind" 

[Madrat]

Hello everyone, good Christmas?

Wife cant wait to get her ducks    problem now is no one seams to have any campbells anywhere near us   

What about runner ducks?

Our nearest place has Silver Appleyard, Saxony, Cayuga, and Crested.  What do you think of them?

[Sassy]

I know it's hard but you would be better waiting for spring and the new hatches. You don't know what you might get fobbed off with now - there are some unscrupulous breeders out there.

[Madrat]

Thats true, but the one I use a lot I trust.

[upert]

I have chickens and ducks together and they're fine 99% with each other of the time. I have a run 12 metres by 5 metres, fully enclosed. I've kept chickens for 5 years and ducks for 1 1/2 and if I had my time again I think I'd skip having ducks.

As fond as I am of them and their eggs I have to change their water buckets and baby bath every day; that's 6 to 9 buckets, over 100 litres. You could get away with less but then you'd have even dirtier water.

In winter the water can freeze and I'd have to transport it in - I keep them at my allotment. I go every day without fail as their water gets dirty fast. I have nipple drinkers for the chickens yet they'll still drink from the buckets. Unless you have a running water source inside their run I'd think very hard about whether you have the time for ducks. Only now do I realise how much easier it was keeping chickens.

My ducks will wait for me to empty, clean and refill the baby bath then waddle in, make eye-contact with me, and purposefully dodo in it and laugh.

[Madrat]

There at the bottom of the garden in there own area 40' x 40' approx, and we don't have a water meter so we are A OK