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Permie Waterfowl Picture Thread - Share your flock!

 
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This request comes from a recent fascination of my own, and that is the many different types of waterfowl that folks have domesticated.

Alas, I do not have enough property to sustain my own flock so I am humbly asking for ya'll to share pictures and maybe a little description of the waterfowl that you tend.

I especially appreciate geese. Something about that large of a bird is appealing. I have have been on the wrong end of an irritated goose as a child so I do know a bit of their temper but I get a kick out of them none the less.

How many different birds do Permies keep?
 
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Trick-or-treaters (aka, "can John come out to play?"), at our door...
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Trick-or-TREEEEAT!!!
Trick-or-TREEEEAT!!!
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Look who FINALLY found the pond!!
Look who FINALLY found the pond!!
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Closeup inside the duck tractor
Closeup inside the duck tractor
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Behbehz!!
Behbehz!!
 
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We don't have them any more, but here's one of my favourite photos from when we did. I may find more.

We gave goosey some muscovy eggs to hatch. She was just beginning to get suspicious...

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We use our Muscovy to hatch out and raise our goslings. Here are 3 of them looking adorable at 2 days old!

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Here we keep mallards for eggs. We used to have 2 drakes and 7 ducks, but a coyote got into the pen and we were left with 1 drake and 1 duck. Last spring we added 2 more ducks, so our drake has 3 ducks which is a good balance. If one of the ducks becomes broody this year, we are probably going to let her have the babies she wants.
We also buy 15 Peking ducklings a year, that we raise for meat. I also want geese and turkeys, but my husband says we don’t have the room. Once the kids have moved out we won’t need so many chicken eggs. We can then keep a smaller flock and add turkeys and geese.
I am actually a little bummed. I had 36 duck eggs in my freeze dryer, when the pump broke and ruined it all. It sucks, but at least the company that sold it to us, are sending us a refurbished pump.
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My silver appleyard ducks
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