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
We’ve just been enjoying a cold snap here in France. Complete with snow. As I understand much of the northern hemisphere has. But this isn’t so typical here. Certainly it’s cold, but not so much below freezing temperatures cold. Or snow. And I do say enjoying (sort of) as afterContinue Reading
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