Flock Management
Duck Flock Journal: Track Eggs, Feed and Daily Changes
Keep one private daily record of flock size, eggs, feed and the changes you noticed. Compare your most recent logged…
Quackoria Tools
Quackoria Tools
Free duck calculators, checkers and a few just for fun. Every figure the calculators and checkers use carries the source it came from.
Manage your flock
Incubating and hatching
Incubating
Duck Egg Hatch Date Calculator
Enter the day you set the eggs and the kind of duck, and the calculator gives you every date that…
Incubating
Duck Egg Development Day by Day: From Setting to Hatch
Enter the day you set the eggs and see what is happening inside them today, what to do, and when…
Incubating
Egg Weight-Loss Tracker: Is Your Incubator Humidity Right?
Weigh the eggs when you set them and again whenever you candle. This plots the loss against the published target…
Incubating
Incubator Humidity Converter: Wet Bulb to Relative Humidity and Back
Turn a wet-bulb reading into relative humidity at your incubator's temperature, or find the wet-bulb reading for the humidity you…
Incubating
Why Didn’t My Duck Eggs Hatch? An Incubation Troubleshooter
Tick what you found — clear eggs, blood rings, ducklings dead in the shell, pipped and stuck, sticky, early, late…
Ducklings
Ducklings
Duckling Age Planner: What Your Ducklings Need This Week
Put in the hatch date and get this week's brooder temperature, water depth, space, feed and the milestones ahead —…
Ducklings
Duckling Niacin Calculator: How Much Niacin or Brewer’s Yeast to Add
How much niacin to add to your ducklings' feed or water — as tablets or as brewer's yeast — to…
Feeding
Feeding
Can Ducks Eat…? A Sourced Food Checker
Type a food into the checker and you get a straight answer with the source it came from. Where reputable…
Feeding
Duck Feed Calculator: How Much Your Flock Eats, and What It Costs
How much feed your ducks will get through in a day, a week and a month — by breed and…
Housing and planning a flock
Housing
Duck Housing & Space Calculator
Put in how many ducks you have and how old they are, and the calculator gives you house size, run…
Housing
Duck Flock Planner: How Many Ducks, Which Breed, and No Drake
Start from the eggs you want and the space you have, and this works out how many ducks that is,…
Housing
Duck Pool & Pond Calculator: Volume, Depth, Cleaning and Pump Size
Put in the shape and size of the pool or pond and how many ducks use it. This works out…
Eggs: laying, keeping and cooking
Eggs
Duck Egg Production Calculator: Eggs a Week, a Year, and Feed Cost per Dozen
Choose your breeds, how many ducks and whether you add light in winter, and this gives the eggs to expect…
Eggs
Duck Winter Light Planner: Day Length, Hours to Add and Timer Times
Put in where you are and the day you want to start, and this works out the natural day length,…
Eggs
Egg Freshness Checker: How Long Duck Eggs Keep, and What the Float Test Means
When was it laid, was it washed, where has it been kept? This gives the USDA and Penn State storage…
Eggs
Duck Egg Converter: How Many Duck Eggs Replace Chicken Eggs in a Recipe
A recipe wants three large chicken eggs. How many duck eggs is that? This converts by weight — the USDA…
Health and biosecurity
Health
Duck Biosecurity Checklist: Bird Flu Precautions for a Backyard Flock
Tick what you already do and see what the official guidance — USDA, GOV.UK, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and…
Predators
Predators
What May Have Killed My Duck? Evidence Matcher
Tick what you found — missing birds, missing heads, eaten eggs, digging, the time of day — and see which…
Breeds and telling ducks apart
Breeds
Is My Duck a Boy or a Girl? Sexing by Voice, Tail and Colour
Four questions about the voice, the tail, the colour and the size, and an answer with the confidence it deserves…
Breeds
Duck Breed Comparison: Eggs, Size, Temperament and Mothering
Twenty-one breeds side by side — eggs a year, egg weight, adult weight, temperament, mothering, foraging, flight and rarity —…
Wild ducks
Wild Ducks
Which Wild Duck Did I See? An Identification Helper
Saw a duck at the park or the lake and want a name for it? Pick the size, the head…
Wild Ducks
How Old Is This Duckling? Age a Wild Duckling by Its Plumage
Pick what the duckling looks like — a bright ball of fluff, fading down, first feathers, nearly feathered — and…
Just for fun
Fun
Duck Anatomy Explorer: Tap a Part, Learn What It Does
Bill, lamellae, speculum, preen gland, the feet that do not freeze — fifteen parts of a duck, each with a…
Fun
The Duck Quiz: Twelve Questions Most People Get Wrong
Teeth, quacks, frozen feet, bread and the one-eyed sleep. Twelve questions, a score to share, and the article behind every…
Fun
Which Duck Breed Are You?
Six questions, one duck. It is a quiz on a duck website and it will tell you so at the…
Fun
Duck Name Generator
Pick a mood, press the button, and keep pressing until one of them is obviously right. That is genuinely the…
Fun
Free Duck Coloring Pages: 20 Printable Ducks to Colour
Twenty original duck drawings — on the pond, in the bath, on the moon. Print one, save it as a…
Fun
Duck Meme Maker: Put Words on a Duck
Pick one of our duck drawings or use your own photo, add the top and bottom text, and download the…
Fun
Talk to the Duck: A Rubber Duck Debugging Page
Explain your problem to a duck, one line at a time. It only asks questions, it never stores a word,…