Getting Started
A Duck Keeper’s Year: What to Do Each Season
Duck keeping runs on the calendar more than most people expect. The birds lay by daylight, moult after the breeding…
Quackoria Care
Seasonal Care
Heat, cold, moult and the laying year. What ducks need in a hot spell and in a frost, when to expect eggs to stop and start, and a month-by-month calendar of the whole year for a backyard flock.
Common Problems
Keeping Ducks Cool in Summer: Heat Stress, Shade and the Emergency
Ducks shrug off winter and, Metzer Farms says, handle heat pretty well too. The signs of heat stress in order,…
Seasonal Care
Keeping Ducks Through Winter
Ducks handle cold far better than the people who keep them. What they actually need in winter is unfrozen water,…