When we think about keeping ducks healthy, we tend to think about the obvious things: clean water, good food, shelter, parasite control and protection from predators. But there is another part of duck welfare that deserves much more attention: mental wellbeing. Ducks are intelligent, social and inquisitive birds. They spendContinue Reading
My life is currently covered in feathers. On a normal day, feathers are lovely, floaty and, in fact, amazingly designed things. This next month they will be the harbingers of evil. Okay, maybe not that dire. Well, for sure not that dire, but they can be a bloody nuisance! MoultingContinue Reading
People are obsessed with duck poop. Well, okay, maybe more in my world than yours. But believe me in the pet duck world it is constantly, and I mean constantly, discussed, asked about, mentioned, questioned… You get the idea. But, and here’s the thing, more by others than duck owners.Continue Reading
Spring in the Duck World means working against mother nature and my deviously clever ducks.Continue Reading
Per my and the ducks morning routine, I am sat in Cafe du Canard, coffee to hand, as I write this. In looking around my walled garden, the concept of duck houses tickled my writing thoughts. What they needed, versus what I thought was best for them. I have hadContinue Reading
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