Ducks

2-5 days

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depends on the animal

No you need to have a female and male duck to have baby ducks.

daisy ducks middle name is dandy.

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if you mean setting then no, the don't sett(siting on there eggs to hatch them) on eggs very often, and if they do they might abandon the nest at anytime from a few days till days before hatching, apparently they are not good mothers, i have had them set but not raise them,( the eggs got eaten before hatch), if you want them for eggs then there good(200 eggs a year), just make sure you have a coop for them or keep them indoors till the lay there egg(usually in the morning), and they will lay eggs wherever they are when they have to, so if there free ranging you will have to go on an egg hunt, but if you have a pond then you might find alot of the eggs in the pond, at least that's what i fin with mine,

One of ours is 12 lbs. Most of the rest are 8-10 lbs

because they do

Yes is thr simple anawer, if u were able to keep it at the right temperature anf humidity for example in an incubator, it could hatch but even if you git this far chicks rarely survive alone, they need other chicks to be with.

Yes, there are several ducks who will eat mosquito larvae. Muscovy ducks are said to be the main predator for mosquito larvae and are essential for keeping the mosquito population at bay.

Yes, ducks are legal to own. Illinois has no laws/restrictions against animals not considered dangerous.

It can vary depending on the species, but on average (such as for Canadian geese) they takes from 25 to 30 days to hatch, and in a clutch it takes from 8 to 36 hours to hatch (relative to the first egg that hatches). Every gosling will take about 24 more hours to become mobile after they hatch.

No, they are also frequently to be seen on land and commonly nest out of water

They lay there eggs about 10 times.

I don't know the answer to this question -- but I have a similar situation near my home. A wounded goose (or is it a gander?) was seen along the road by a motorist. The motorist picked up the goose and released it near a small pond which happens to be near my house. Now the goose/gander has taken up residence by the little bridge over the pond. It like a troll guarding the bridge and it challenges anyone who tries to cross the bridge -- even cars! I feel sorry for this goose/gander because it is all alone and I want to get it a mate, but I'm not sure whether it's a male or a female. I think it's probably a male, judging from its behavior. Now I need to find out where to buy a female goose and bring her to him. There aren't any other geese around here.

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From my experience ducks and geese do have exceptional vision (maybe not as good as an old Tom turkey or a cagey whitetail buck) nonetheless, it is an important consideration in hunting ducks and geese effectively! I encourage hunters to think of visual capabilities of ducks and geese from the perspective of the birds rather than their own. Ducks and geese perspective from the air is different than a persons view at 6 feet. This is something to think about this as you design your blinds and set up in natural cover. Remember a "fort" that looks good at 6 feet may be lacking the overhead cover needed to conceal you from approaching birds or those circling over the top.

Also, I think the killer for most hunters is movement. Minimizing movement is the absolute key in consistently decoy ducks. As far as standing up and calling you should be fine as long as long as the cover breaks up your outline and you can ensure movement is minimized.

They do indeed eat the chicks of other birds as I have seen first hand a small to medium sized Pied Shag/Cormorant pursue and catch a Hard Head/White eyed duckling while its mum tried vainly to ward the Shag off. The Shag simply submerges, and once under the chick, pulls it down and swims off, surfacing a safe distance from the mother to devour the unfortunate little thing.

In one of my local parks (Queen's Gardens Perth WA) there is small lake system and the breeding birds include, Pacific Black ducks, Hard Head / White eyed Ducks, Wood ducks, lesser Swamp hens, Coots, Dab Chicks and a pair of Black Swans.

From several years of observation I have concluded that not one Hard Head ducklings lives longer than 10 days, 98 percent of Pacific Black ducklings suffer the same fate. Wood Duck ducklings do better (approx 30 percent survive) as they spend most of their time on land.

Less than 10 percent of Swamp Hen and Coot chicks make it to adult hood. The dab chick couple have had two chicks in total (that I've seen) one this spring and one two springs back, in approx 5 years. Both babies were close to maturity when I last saw them so I assume they survived and flew off to another water system. Whether or not they had siblings I can't say as I've never discovered their nests.

The Black Swan cygnets as as you would expect, have an excellent survival percentage. I can only recall 4 cygnets vanishing from more that 20 hatchlings over approx 6 years.

I know that Crows, Sea gulls, Herons, Falcons, maybe Pelicans, Cats and probaly even Rats will predate on ducklings but I am now convinced that the high mortality rate in Queens Gardens is mostly due to Cormorants. The fact that Wood Duck ducklings spend less time on the water than the other chick types and have the highest survival rate support this theory. I don't yet know if all of the 3 or so types of Shags in the Park have the same feeding behaviour but I believe they do as when hatchlings are about I haven't yet seen any Shags diving for fish. They spend most of their day sunbathing probably as a result of them being well sustained by a couple of hatchlings per day.

FYI.

Claws if unclipped, and flying up in a tree to escape if wing feathers are not clipped. However if domestic ducks, say for a small farm operation, you really ought to have a predator proof shed to keep Muscovy in at night to prevent losses to hungry wildlife.

Yes. All of my ducks are mongrels :) mine are khaki campbell X abbacot ranger. It does depend on the breed though, as some ducks will prefer to mate with one breed over another. It is all to do with the individual duck's preference.

~BlackWolf1112

They eat guppies