Hi from the UK, I incubated six Cayuga eggs but only hatched two who lived in our kitchen in increasingly large brooders! Unfortunately, due to my carelessness, one got killed by our terrier so I've re-homed the other at a school farm. Cayuga's are great and I'll definitely try again next year. I was told not to mix them with our hens because ducks can carry silent salmonella and we give away a lot of eggs. I don't want to.make the neighbours ill. Great video.
The paint tray has changed our lives it made brooding ducklings very easy. We use hemp shavings in our brooders and it’s more absorbent than pine and less dusty, lasts longer. And then we would clean the paint tray out daily and the shavings would still be good and dry. Enjoy your ducklings!
Thank you so much for this video! My husband and I are picking up three Cayuga ducklings later this month and, as first-time duck owners, are doing as much research as we can. The paint tray idea is brilliant and I loved seeing your rearing process!
Glad it was helpful! You’re going to love them. We also have another whole duck info video I’ll link below here ua-cam.com/video/a6t5lu3Qodw/v-deo.html
I got two babies at the end of April to live with my Pekin Three, who had unfortunately lost his mate. I got a Cayuga and a Swedish. Named them Percy and Shelby. I think Percy (Cayuga) is male and Shelby (Swedish) is female. Three is very protective of his "kids" and they are now getting their feathers and learning how to make grown up sounds. They are messy as heck, but I absolutely love my ducks!
There’s nothing cuter than baby ducklings and baby fuzz ball chicks 🐣 Their adult feather colors are beautiful. You two take amazing care of your feathered and fur babies! My problem is that I would want to have diapers on them and all in my house. Lol my husband of course wouldn’t be very happy 😂😂
Really good video, thanks for showing the stages of their lifecycle. It was good to hear the noises they make. We're going to get Cayugas soon so this is all useful info.
It has been one of the best brooder hacks for ducks. It gets so much water in it daily, all that would have been messing the shavings and subsequently molding and stinking without it. Highly recommend using it for your duck brood! ❤️
So cute! We just picked up baby Cayuga ducklings two weeks ago. They are awesome. We also have a Pekin and Rouen duck. Hoping to introduce the two cayugas when they are 6-8 weeks old.
Sounds like a good plan they will be huge!! Haha very cute. Ducks don’t seem to have much pecking order issues they should easily integrate into the water fowl flock without much issue just minor ways they show who’s in charge in the hierarchy. Your going to love seeing those Cayuga’s in your flock!!! They are so gorgeous and a fun addition
I have at least one Cayuga (I have three other ducklings that are all black but aren’t confirmed Cayugas) and I love her! She’s so sweet, such an awesome pet. Still a bit skittish but she will let me hold her and pet her and eats out of my hand with now problem. I definitely recommend cayugas as pet ducks.
Congratulations on your new ducklings! Yes they will do well with them. All our different duck breeds get along great. Drakes can cause problems especially with spring hormones but just keep an eye on them and make sure they are not getting too aggressive
Definitely, now looking at the video they grew so much even from week 1-2. Now we’ll all be waiting on these big babies to lay eggs 😂 I think our ducks are the same age
Thank you! How exciting they are very beautiful ducks! Our Christmas present to each other last year was our call ducks, ducklings are a joy to raise they are soo cute
Just came across your video (and of course subscribed lol) I just got my first ducks a few days ago and I've tried to figure out how to keep the mess to a minimum 😂 i love the paint tray idea!! Where did you get the feeder with the cover on top instead of a whole to screw a jar on?
Black is indeed beautiful, those Cayuga ducklings and as adults, even more so. Do you have anymore poultry breeds, like chickens? I saw two black rooster types all black and another with the red gobble. Amazing the colors animals naturally come in or are breed to be! I enjoy your channel.😌
How big is the pool you use with them, please? We were originally looking at using an old bath (left in the field when we bought the land) but are trying to make sure we give them the right amount of 'water-space'. We've got 5 - 3 Cayuga's, 1 Appleyard, 1 Cayuga-Appleyard Cross.
Oh my! I’m about to get some baby ducks how often do you let them swim in the little bathtub? How much heat & how long? How long before you let the chickens around them?
Congratulations on your ducklings! Ducklings can easily drown and feathers are not waterproof, so lukewarm. I mean ducks like tepid water when grown but since they are ducklings not too cold. Always watch and short limited swim time. As soon as they look tired or over it we dry them off and put them under their heat lamp and they finish drying off very fast under the heat. Swimming isn’t required to raise them, they just love it and it’s so cute to watch them play. Just always supervise. Depending on the duck breed and how fast they grow it can vary. Once they are weened off heat, feathered and introduced through a fence for a few weeks we release them into the flock. Chickens and ducks seem to ignore each other. It’s the other ducks that they establish a pecking order with. Our chickens ignore new ducks, it’s the older ducks that boss around the new ducks to let them know they are in charge over them
Thank you! The kale and Swiss chard grows like a weed for us! Requires a lot of light for large leaves, ours in shadier areas growing much smaller and slower. Our zone is very hot quickly so I have struggled with tatsoi and cabbage bolting before a big head. I highly recommend growing kale we filled our garden with it this year as free poultry feed, and we like to juice it and salads. Our lettuce and spinach is going pretty well right now but the kale and chard is my favorite and most prolific to grow, so much extras for our flock to be fed daily. We can’t grow it much longer in our zone as we have extreme summer heat. I’m going to attempt this year in a shady spot, but didn’t have much luck last year.
@@BockBockBouquet have you considered getting a REPTILE SUN LAMP (not a heat lamp) and growing them indoors (garage or house? ). How do you get kale started? But seeds? Or sprout kale from the store?
@@BockBockBouquet also, have you ever had a duckling with a abscess under it's eye ? I have a Cayuga duckling I found at a feed store that has a nasty infection. We are working on saving it's life as they were likely going to cull it.
@@prettybirdthepetgoosefrien8155 we have such a tiny home sometimes it’s even hard to start seeds they takeover lol! We put them in our laundry room and start from seeds, I have bought transplants at the nursery as well
@@prettybirdthepetgoosefrien8155 oh no sorry to hear that. It’s hard to treat on a very tiny duckling. She needs antibiotics but first the abscess drained and cyst or puss removed to get the infection out. Hope your little one makes it ❤️ that’s a lot to go through at such a young age, poor baby
We have stray cats go through our yard every day and they have never bothered our ducks. I would be careful with ducklings, but adult ducks should be fine.
Our friend took 5 of them :) we did not want 10, so we went in on half of them for the order. We put it in the screen but it was probably too quick lol
These are domesticated ducks so they are not found in the wild or suited to live in the wild. Ours eat a chicken feed that’s formulated for the nutritional needs of ducks as well. We use organic scratch and peck feeds
@@BockBockBouquet So all Cayuga ducks are domesticated? I thought it was kind of like a horse thing haha, some are wild while others aren’t. Anyway your ducks are very beautiful! Thank you for letting me know
Awesome! Welcome to our channel! We have done a morning routine video before, it's in our library somewhere. Someone requested another one of those, so we will be doing another tour/ day routine video again soon We are renting a house with a 2 acre lot.
That’s actually perfectly normal. As they age many of the black duck breeds will loose their color. Black genes can turn white, they may go from all greenish black to mottled with white as they mature
Hello there I see you keep ducks in the city near your neighbors, I too live close to my neighbors and I was wondering are the ducks quiet enough to keep in a neighborhood? I have Muscovy ducks already but want to get some mallard derived ducks which I hear are noisier.
Oh yes the ducks are loud. I do recommend muscovies as they are so quiet if you have complaining neighbors. Or ask their permission if they would mind for you to have ducks. We are zoned agricultural and horse property so we can have whatever we want
Drakes are quieter too. I would think they'd probably be hard for neighbors to hear them but probably depends. We have 5 male Pekins and I hardly every hear them unless I'm right out there with them.... It's our lady Pekin that can be heard from inside the house. We call her the flocks mouthpiece because she knows I can hear her so when they want me to come outside she quacks persistently until I come out then they go back about their business lol
I have two indoor pet ducks, A Pekin and A Cayuga. I have never thought of using the walk in shower. I just use A kiddie pool that I put down in the bathroom.
Oh cute! Those are some big ducks, we’ve been looking into duck diapers for when we let our call ducks play inside. We like to brood in 55 gallon totes
@@BockBockBouquet oh yea, they are good sized ducks. I had them since they were ducklings and they follow me around the house and lay in my lap when I'm watching tv.. they're my best friends lol
My kind of girlfriend wanted a duckling for her chihuahua to play with, her roommate has a cat so she couldn't keep the duckling so she had me watch him for a night & we were going to return him to IFA but my mom's bf knows someone with a bird sanctuary and I'm supposed to bring him by 2 hours ago but I just can't do it, I've cried my eyes out 3 or 4 times since last night. I'm almost certain we imprinted on each other. I have containers handled, but what about bedding, I've been using microfiber towels because I have dozens. Will that be okay temporarily?
Yes that will be okay temporarily. Ducklings are very sweet but they can get messy very fast. Hemp shavings or pine shavings will be more absorbing, they get big and bigger poops very quickly lol ducks are a flock animal so they don’t like to be alone. The duckling will require a lot of your attention
They are fairy easy to care for, they need heat lamp while young and to dunk their beak in water to drink. They can be fed duckling food or chick starter feed with some nutritional(brewers) yeast mixed in. Ducklings need vitamin riboflavin to grow their fast developing leg muscles
We don’t use medicated feed because we feel there’s no need to prophylactically treat. It’s mean to prevent coccidiosis, but on small scale farms it’s not as common where as large profitable farms usually would need medicated feed. Some people choose to use it, as it is their pets and choices to make but people should know the risks, as well as advantages as I know people who swear by it and have never had any problems as well. Use of medicated feed can cause later in life for “stargazing” or wryneck to occur or a niacin deficiency because the birds are unable to create their own from the overdose from medicated feeds. Feeding non medicated feeds and adding vitamins to water or nutritional yeast to feed is a great way to give the added niacin to ducks to help prevent the vitamin deficiency & wryneck that can be so dangerous. Most chick and duck starter and grower feeds are small enough that grit is not necessarily needed yet but will definitely be needed once being fed roughages like lettuces and veggies. As without grit they cannot break down these types of food. Chick starter mash is already broken down, and if they have access to sand they will consume as much as needed. You can offer grit in a separate dish free choice or sprinkle sparklingly amongst their feed once they are at a old enough age that they are being fed healthy treats like leafy greens and grass and fruits 😊
It’s a standard size kiddy pool. We have a few of them and also a small dig out concrete pond for them. We also use black rubber feeders as small pools too
We sold 5 of them to a family friend. We wrote it on the screen during the video, but it was briefly. Although not unheard of, and can be common to lose one at this age. We luckily didn’t, and all 10 have grown up and are happy laying loud messy ducked. Cackle hatchery did a great job with shipping
We bought 9 and they shipped us 10! Free extra from Cackle Hatchery. All 10 survived shipping and none passed. We kept 5, and the other 5 went to my dads best friend. (We put the explanation on the screen, but maybe it disappeared too quickly) Our 5 girls just turned a year old now and lay black and gray delicious large eggs. They are also great pets and fun personalities
@@BockBockBouquet I have a bit of a dilemma. A neighbor of mine bought a $12 domestic duckling at the feed store. It was the smallest of the entire bunch. One night of it peeping and he couldn't stand it and I find this duckling in my hands the next morning. I've had this duckling for about 2 weeks now. It has the exact same color down as your Caguya ducklings. I've never owned a duckling in my life. I live in a studio apartment in Southern California. This is not a good place for a lonely little waterfowl with no others to associate with. I would absolutely love to have a deep bond with this duckling and watch it grow, but I would love for it even more to be in a place where it would be most healthy and happy. However two days ago it had sprained its leg or pulled a muscle because it won't walk on it at all and I've tried to do some research for the two weeks that I've had it to see what the proper care would be. However there are so many resources that I don't have access to that would be ideal for a duck to grow. I'm hoping that there are any duck breeders or anyone with experience that would like to adopt this little duckling. I refuse to take it back to the feed store because of the filthy conditions of the ducklings when I visited the place. I will not settle for anything less than the best home for any animal I've ever had in my care. I need Someone more capable and with the resources to be able to give it the best life. As of right now it has a leg it can't stand on. I've been putting it in warm water just enough for it to be able to exercise the leg but keep it elevated with no pressure. It's starting to flex its toes and move the leg a bit which I hope is a good sign. I feel that it's not growing properly because it is not getting the ideal nutritious diet that a domesticated duck needs. But most importantly I can't keep a whole flock of ducks in a studio apartment so my little duckling would get lonely from the lack of other waterfowl and I'm the only thing it associates with and I can't be there all the time. I would never forgive myself for not trying to find a good home for this duckling. As duck owners, please give me some suggestions on what I can do for this animal. I can't afford to take it to the veterinarian. I can hardly afford the duck food to feed it. so I've been asking online if there is anyone in Southern California that has good experience with raising ducks to take a look at this little guy and give it the chance it deserves. As irresistibly adorable as this duckling is, this is not the place for it. As it is still a duckling, I feel it will adapt just fine when put in the right environment with other waterfowl. I either want a reliable owner that will take good care of it and give it all the proper care it needs, or I was thinking of sending it to a sanctuary where they could treat the leg and put it in a comfortable enclosure with other ducks.
@@eringrady5554 please email us bockbouquet@gmail.com. Hard to diagnose through a comment but ducks been niacin and riboflavin. There are a lot of those vitamins in brags nutritional yeast. They can develop leg issues from the vitamin deficiency. I hope it’s not a slipped tendon and not in pain. There are a lot of people here in the antelope valley, including us that can take the duckling in. We are a rural area
Actually the food is in a feeder, if you put water in that it would leak all out there is no seal. We use a feeder top for the water so the ducks can dunk their heads in the water to clean their nostrils, but not fully swim to not make the brooder a mess and get the shavings all wet
Yes ducks grow up so much faster than chicks. Cayugas are also a domesticated breed but we do raise Muscovy ducks which are a wild breed and we love and recommend them to raise as well. A favorite of ours besides the mallard type ducks
Favorite pet duck would definitely be call ducks, we have some videos on them in our duck playlist. They are a miniature bantam breed. These cayugas are super silly full of personality and definitely a favorite as well. My other favorite would be Muscovys. I will never have a flock without them. They are sweet, wag their tails when they are happy and have a pretty whisper voice as they are “quackless.” They lay huge eggs as well. Runner ducks are pretty silly although I haven’t had them in my flock in a few years now. We just got a new rare breed of ducks called East Indies and are hoping to put a video out on them soon
They are a bit messy with their food and water but all the positives of ducks outshine that. We love having ducks with our chickens and we used to have geese as well. One thing to be aware of is male ducks the drakes can do harm to chickens if they try to mate with them, so that is something to be aware of especially if they are not free range the drakes can do a lot of harm. Recommend only keeping female ducks with chickens
Yes they do need a larger opening for them to get their bills into but most feeders sold for chickens accommodate that. We swear by grandpa feeders and have all our poultry trained to use them, we have a detailed review on them here ua-cam.com/video/Z0Wc9ltBIOo/v-deo.html
Actually there was 10 in the beginning but we sold 3 to a friend and then another 2 to another friend that really wanted them. So we only kept 5 total at the end. We captioned it on the screen at some point 😊
@@michelledax4083 we are new to this breed and do not have a drake. Our friends that do, say they are good broodies and raise their young. We have kept Muscovy, call, mallard and runners. Our cayugas get along great with our chickens and other ducks. We do not have any other large breed duck drakes with our chickens as the drakes can try to mate and be rough with chickens which can hurt them if they mate them
We actually had 10, we were only keeping 5 and were just holding the other 5 till our 2 friends could pick them up. We put it on the screen but maybe it disappeared too fast lol. Don’t worry they all are alive living their best duck lives to this day 😂
Hi from the UK, I incubated six Cayuga eggs but only hatched two who lived in our kitchen in increasingly large brooders! Unfortunately, due to my carelessness, one got killed by our terrier so I've re-homed the other at a school farm. Cayuga's are great and I'll definitely try again next year. I was told not to mix them with our hens because ducks can carry silent salmonella and we give away a lot of eggs. I don't want to.make the neighbours ill. Great video.
The paint tray is such a good idea! Hope your ducks and other animals are doing healthy and well. 🫶🏻
Thanks so much! They are doing very well! The ducks a big, loud, and silly!
I came here to say the same thing! Love this idea ❤️
I just received 4 ducks I ordered online (2 Cayugas and 2 blue Swedish). I love the paint tray idea. Ducks love to get water everywhere!
The paint tray has changed our lives it made brooding ducklings very easy. We use hemp shavings in our brooders and it’s more absorbent than pine and less dusty, lasts longer. And then we would clean the paint tray out daily and the shavings would still be good and dry. Enjoy your ducklings!
Thank you so much for this video! My husband and I are picking up three Cayuga ducklings later this month and, as first-time duck owners, are doing as much research as we can. The paint tray idea is brilliant and I loved seeing your rearing process!
Glad it was helpful! You’re going to love them. We also have another whole duck info video I’ll link below here
ua-cam.com/video/a6t5lu3Qodw/v-deo.html
I got two babies at the end of April to live with my Pekin Three, who had unfortunately lost his mate. I got a Cayuga and a Swedish. Named them Percy and Shelby. I think Percy (Cayuga) is male and Shelby (Swedish) is female. Three is very protective of his "kids" and they are now getting their feathers and learning how to make grown up sounds. They are messy as heck, but I absolutely love my ducks!
There’s nothing cuter than baby ducklings and baby fuzz ball chicks 🐣 Their adult feather colors are beautiful. You two take amazing care of your feathered and fur babies! My problem is that I would want to have diapers on them and all in my house. Lol my husband of course wouldn’t be very happy 😂😂
Thanks so much!! Lol every once and awhile we let our call ducks in to play in the house. Can’t help it they are too cute lol
We need more on the ducks! Waiting on my delivery and found this video, so helpful!
We posted an update on these ducks today 😊
What a beautiful set up and adorable babies!
Congratulations Bock Bock Bouquet for successfully raising such a happy, healthy group of Cayuga ducks and for posting their progress online.
Thank you! We love this silly fun group they have been a great addition to our flock, check out our part 2 as they have started laying black eggs 🖤
Really good video, thanks for showing the stages of their lifecycle. It was good to hear the noises they make. We're going to get Cayugas soon so this is all useful info.
Love the paint tray idea and the waterer on the bowl.
It has been one of the best brooder hacks for ducks. It gets so much water in it daily, all that would have been messing the shavings and subsequently molding and stinking without it. Highly recommend using it for your duck brood! ❤️
YAY!! This is so cool !! We are so excited & can’t wait to see our ducklings grow like this. They’re so BEAUTIFUL 😍🦆💕
Thank you!! Soon enough you’ll be collecting gray or black eggs!
Love to see people take good care of their animals.🎉
Aw thank you, same here
Cayuga feathers are probably the softest feathers I've ever felt
The Chicken crew though 😂😂😂 the floofy white hen is cute.
Thank you! 😄
So cute! We just picked up baby Cayuga ducklings two weeks ago. They are awesome. We also have a Pekin and Rouen duck. Hoping to introduce the two cayugas when they are 6-8 weeks old.
Sounds like a good plan they will be huge!! Haha very cute. Ducks don’t seem to have much pecking order issues they should easily integrate into the water fowl flock without much issue just minor ways they show who’s in charge in the hierarchy. Your going to love seeing those Cayuga’s in your flock!!! They are so gorgeous and a fun addition
They are so cute. From chip chip chip to quack quack quack. They might have black eggs too
I have at least one Cayuga (I have three other ducklings that are all black but aren’t confirmed Cayugas) and I love her! She’s so sweet, such an awesome pet. Still a bit skittish but she will let me hold her and pet her and eats out of my hand with now problem. I definitely recommend cayugas as pet ducks.
Your ducks are adorable!!
Aw thank you we love them
We have 4 of them and 4 more aflack’s coming tomorrow. Looks like they’ll get along fine with our pekings.
Congratulations on your new ducklings! Yes they will do well with them. All our different duck breeds get along great. Drakes can cause problems especially with spring hormones but just keep an eye on them and make sure they are not getting too aggressive
Great insight to rearing them. We get our duckling on the 9th of May as that is hatching day.
How exciting!! You’re going to love them
ahhh, baby ducks are so cute
Here in the UK. My babies loved the video.
Thanks so much! ❤️
Such sweet little peeping puffballs.
Hi I'm a new subscriber, we love your the chickies! And duckies💜
Welcome to our channel ♥️ we love all our babies
Great videos, just got my first Cayuga's they are beautiful :)
Thank you! They are a great breed of duck, so beautiful and big silly personalities
Nice video so crazy how fast ducks grow!!! Totally 0-60 in a few months!!!
Definitely, now looking at the video they grew so much even from week 1-2. Now we’ll all be waiting on these big babies to lay eggs 😂 I think our ducks are the same age
@@BockBockBouquet yes I thinks so! We go to build ours a hut real soon!
Duck hut awesome! Can’t wait to see
Adorable 🙏
Thank you very much! These silly girls make us smile every single day
Love your setup 😍
Baby welsh harlequin in incubator
Thank you! How exciting they are very beautiful ducks! Our Christmas present to each other last year was our call ducks, ducklings are a joy to raise they are soo cute
Just came across your video (and of course subscribed lol) I just got my first ducks a few days ago and I've tried to figure out how to keep the mess to a minimum 😂 i love the paint tray idea!! Where did you get the feeder with the cover on top instead of a whole to screw a jar on?
I'm a year late but these babies are soooo cute!
Thank you!
such pretty feathers on those duckies!
They shine such green and purple in real life 🖤
What is the floor of your hen run please???
Awww I got 2 of these in with my Jumbo Pekin and kaki's
I love baby ducklings. I have some two months.
Beautiful video thanks, so much positivity
Where'd you get the bauthtubs from? They're lovely.
Black is indeed beautiful, those Cayuga ducklings and as adults, even more so. Do you have anymore poultry breeds, like chickens? I saw two black rooster types all black and another with the red gobble. Amazing the colors animals naturally come in or are breed to be! I enjoy your channel.😌
Yes thanks so much! We have a large flock of many chicken breeds, we like having a variety of beautiful birds and different color eggs they lay
How big is the pool you use with them, please? We were originally looking at using an old bath (left in the field when we bought the land) but are trying to make sure we give them the right amount of 'water-space'. We've got 5 - 3 Cayuga's, 1 Appleyard, 1 Cayuga-Appleyard Cross.
they're sooooooo cute
Can you deep litter the brooder?
What do you have on top of the paint tray (the floor of the food/water area)?
OMG I love them so much
Please tell me where you got the bath tub they swim in
Beautiful babies! You're in Plano? I'm in West Texas. I have a channel and would love to come and film at your place someday. I love your birdies.
Oh my! I’m about to get some baby ducks how often do you let them swim in the little bathtub?
How much heat & how long?
How long before you let the chickens around them?
Congratulations on your ducklings! Ducklings can easily drown and feathers are not waterproof, so lukewarm. I mean ducks like tepid water when grown but since they are ducklings not too cold. Always watch and short limited swim time. As soon as they look tired or over it we dry them off and put them under their heat lamp and they finish drying off very fast under the heat. Swimming isn’t required to raise them, they just love it and it’s so cute to watch them play. Just always supervise. Depending on the duck breed and how fast they grow it can vary. Once they are weened off heat, feathered and introduced through a fence for a few weeks we release them into the flock. Chickens and ducks seem to ignore each other. It’s the other ducks that they establish a pecking order with. Our chickens ignore new ducks, it’s the older ducks that boss around the new ducks to let them know they are in charge over them
@@BockBockBouquet Thank you soooooo much! 👏🏻👏🏻
@@CoyoteCrossingSanctuary 😊😊
Do you do a transitional period when introducing new ducks to the flock
Where did you get them from?
That KALE looks better then any kale I have seen at the store ! Nice! I'm planning to grow some this year , any tips?
Thank you! The kale and Swiss chard grows like a weed for us! Requires a lot of light for large leaves, ours in shadier areas growing much smaller and slower. Our zone is very hot quickly so I have struggled with tatsoi and cabbage bolting before a big head. I highly recommend growing kale we filled our garden with it this year as free poultry feed, and we like to juice it and salads. Our lettuce and spinach is going pretty well right now but the kale and chard is my favorite and most prolific to grow, so much extras for our flock to be fed daily. We can’t grow it much longer in our zone as we have extreme summer heat. I’m going to attempt this year in a shady spot, but didn’t have much luck last year.
@@BockBockBouquet have you considered getting a REPTILE SUN LAMP (not a heat lamp) and growing them indoors (garage or house? ). How do you get kale started? But seeds? Or sprout kale from the store?
@@BockBockBouquet also, have you ever had a duckling with a abscess under it's eye ? I have a Cayuga duckling I found at a feed store that has a nasty infection. We are working on saving it's life as they were likely going to cull it.
@@prettybirdthepetgoosefrien8155 we have such a tiny home sometimes it’s even hard to start seeds they takeover lol! We put them in our laundry room and start from seeds, I have bought transplants at the nursery as well
@@prettybirdthepetgoosefrien8155 oh no sorry to hear that. It’s hard to treat on a very tiny duckling. She needs antibiotics but first the abscess drained and cyst or puss removed to get the infection out. Hope your little one makes it ❤️ that’s a lot to go through at such a young age, poor baby
OMG. That's a cute gang 😍
Awww, thanks so much! We love seeing how they all stick together 🖤
Hello I am your new subscriber I love ducks coz I am a duck farmer too.
We love ducks! Welcome to our channel thanks for watching
Did you order all girls or did it just happen that way?
Yes we ordered all females from cackle hatchery
Great video! Just got my first ducks, i think 2 will be cayuga. Wondering if a stray cat could kill an adult duck?
We have stray cats go through our yard every day and they have never bothered our ducks. I would be careful with ducklings, but adult ducks should be fine.
@@BockBockBouquet Thanks! :)
beautiful
Thank you!
What is the name of that grate that you have their feeders on?
It's a paint tray grid...cool idea.
Did some of the ducks not make it through week 1? They all looked healthy out of the box, what happened?
Our friend took 5 of them :) we did not want 10, so we went in on half of them for the order. We put it in the screen but it was probably too quick lol
Amazing, what do you feed them? What would they eat in the wild?
These are domesticated ducks so they are not found in the wild or suited to live in the wild. Ours eat a chicken feed that’s formulated for the nutritional needs of ducks as well. We use organic scratch and peck feeds
@@BockBockBouquet So all Cayuga ducks are domesticated? I thought it was kind of like a horse thing haha, some are wild while others aren’t. Anyway your ducks are very beautiful! Thank you for letting me know
Where u buy this??
New subscriber here🙋♀️ very informative
Can you do a tour of your place?
How many acres of land are you two on?
Awesome! Welcome to our channel! We have done a morning routine video before, it's in our library somewhere. Someone requested another one of those, so we will be doing another tour/ day routine video again soon We are renting a house with a 2 acre lot.
Oh nice.
You two are very informative
Thank you for taking the time
Do you have any more videos of this breed that are adults with adult plumage? They are beautiful
Thank you! We dont have a specific video on them, but they do appear in some of our vlogs here and there, they are very silly girls, we love them!
I hate to double post but my male Cayuga that’s a little less than a year old is getting white spots. Do you know what’s up with that?
That’s actually perfectly normal. As they age many of the black duck breeds will loose their color. Black genes can turn white, they may go from all greenish black to mottled with white as they mature
Is this little duck at the beginning of the video, a call duck?
Delicious
Can I ask which hatchery your ordered your Cayugas from? They turned out beautiful!
Thank you! Ours were from Cackle hatchery I believe. We ordered from California hatchery but I believe that’s where they said they sourced them from
Where is Cackle located?
Hello there I see you keep ducks in the city near your neighbors, I too live close to my neighbors and I was wondering are the ducks quiet enough to keep in a neighborhood? I have Muscovy ducks already but want to get some mallard derived ducks which I hear are noisier.
Oh yes the ducks are loud. I do recommend muscovies as they are so quiet if you have complaining neighbors. Or ask their permission if they would mind for you to have ducks. We are zoned agricultural and horse property so we can have whatever we want
Drakes are quieter too. I would think they'd probably be hard for neighbors to hear them but probably depends. We have 5 male Pekins and I hardly every hear them unless I'm right out there with them.... It's our lady Pekin that can be heard from inside the house. We call her the flocks mouthpiece because she knows I can hear her so when they want me to come outside she quacks persistently until I come out then they go back about their business lol
I was gonna get pekins but I think I may get both now
You’ll love the addition of these!
Awh i 😮have the same exact two call ducks that you do one solid white and a mallard
Aww how cute
Idk if mine is also a Cayuga because is twice the size and it had 2 orange lines on its beak
How pretty! Have to see what color eggs she’ll lay
I have two indoor pet ducks, A Pekin and A Cayuga. I have never thought of using the walk in shower. I just use A kiddie pool that I put down in the bathroom.
Oh cute! Those are some big ducks, we’ve been looking into duck diapers for when we let our call ducks play inside. We like to brood in 55 gallon totes
@@BockBockBouquet oh yea, they are good sized ducks. I had them since they were ducklings and they follow me around the house and lay in my lap when I'm watching tv.. they're my best friends lol
@@Carolina-ch2od that’s adorable! Love it
The diapers work good, I use them on mine because they stay indoors at night time. Duck Diapers are a good investment 👌
@@Carolina-ch2od I found some on Etsy we are gonna have to get our duckies measurements 😂
Went from 7 ducks to 5 cayugas?
My kind of girlfriend wanted a duckling for her chihuahua to play with, her roommate has a cat so she couldn't keep the duckling so she had me watch him for a night & we were going to return him to IFA but my mom's bf knows someone with a bird sanctuary and I'm supposed to bring him by 2 hours ago but I just can't do it, I've cried my eyes out 3 or 4 times since last night. I'm almost certain we imprinted on each other. I have containers handled, but what about bedding, I've been using microfiber towels because I have dozens. Will that be okay temporarily?
Yes that will be okay temporarily. Ducklings are very sweet but they can get messy very fast. Hemp shavings or pine shavings will be more absorbing, they get big and bigger poops very quickly lol ducks are a flock animal so they don’t like to be alone. The duckling will require a lot of your attention
Please tell that very hard to take care or not what is her food reply me please
They are fairy easy to care for, they need heat lamp while young and to dunk their beak in water to drink. They can be fed duckling food or chick starter feed with some nutritional(brewers) yeast mixed in. Ducklings need vitamin riboflavin to grow their fast developing leg muscles
We don’t use medicated feed because we feel there’s no need to prophylactically treat. It’s mean to prevent coccidiosis, but on small scale farms it’s not as common where as large profitable farms usually would need medicated feed. Some people choose to use it, as it is their pets and choices to make but people should know the risks, as well as advantages as I know people who swear by it and have never had any problems as well. Use of medicated feed can cause later in life for “stargazing” or wryneck to occur or a niacin deficiency because the birds are unable to create their own from the overdose from medicated feeds. Feeding non medicated feeds and adding vitamins to water or nutritional yeast to feed is a great way to give the added niacin to ducks to help prevent the vitamin deficiency & wryneck that can be so dangerous. Most chick and duck starter and grower feeds are small enough that grit is not necessarily needed yet but will definitely be needed once being fed roughages like lettuces and veggies. As without grit they cannot break down these types of food. Chick starter mash is already broken down, and if they have access to sand they will consume as much as needed. You can offer grit in a separate dish free choice or sprinkle sparklingly amongst their feed once they are at a old enough age that they are being fed healthy treats like leafy greens and grass and fruits 😊
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What size pool do u have?
It’s a standard size kiddy pool. We have a few of them and also a small dig out concrete pond for them. We also use black rubber feeders as small pools too
Did some of them die because you had more at the beginning?
We sold 5 of them to a family friend. We wrote it on the screen during the video, but it was briefly. Although not unheard of, and can be common to lose one at this age. We luckily didn’t, and all 10 have grown up and are happy laying loud messy ducked. Cackle hatchery did a great job with shipping
@@BockBockBouquet Sorry i missed that part. Thanks for the reply. Im trying to hatch call ducks now and if i do Cayuga next
@@blakemcclain1970 we love our calls!
How many didn’t make it?
We bought 9 and they shipped us 10! Free extra from Cackle Hatchery. All 10 survived shipping and none passed. We kept 5, and the other 5 went to my dads best friend. (We put the explanation on the screen, but maybe it disappeared too quickly) Our 5 girls just turned a year old now and lay black and gray delicious large eggs. They are also great pets and fun personalities
@@BockBockBouquet I have a bit of a dilemma. A neighbor of mine bought a $12 domestic duckling at the feed store. It was the smallest of the entire bunch. One night of it peeping and he couldn't stand it and I find this duckling in my hands the next morning. I've had this duckling for about 2 weeks now. It has the exact same color down as your Caguya ducklings. I've never owned a duckling in my life.
I live in a studio apartment in Southern California. This is not a good place for a lonely little waterfowl with no others to associate with. I would absolutely love to have a deep bond with this duckling and watch it grow, but I would love for it even more to be in a place where it would be most healthy and happy.
However two days ago it had sprained its leg or pulled a muscle because it won't walk on it at all and I've tried to do some research for the two weeks that I've had it to see what the proper care would be.
However there are so many resources that I don't have access to that would be ideal for a duck to grow.
I'm hoping that there are any duck breeders or anyone with experience that would like to adopt this little duckling. I refuse to take it back to the feed store because of the filthy conditions of the ducklings when I visited the place. I will not settle for anything less than the best home for any animal I've ever had in my care. I need Someone more capable and with the resources to be able to give it the best life.
As of right now it has a leg it can't stand on. I've been putting it in warm water just enough for it to be able to exercise the leg but keep it elevated with no pressure. It's starting to flex its toes and move the leg a bit which I hope is a good sign. I feel that it's not growing properly because it is not getting the ideal nutritious diet that a domesticated duck needs. But most importantly I can't keep a whole flock of ducks in a studio apartment so my little duckling would get lonely from the lack of other waterfowl and I'm the only thing it associates with and I can't be there all the time. I would never forgive myself for not trying to find a good home for this duckling.
As duck owners, please give me some suggestions on what I can do for this animal. I can't afford to take it to the veterinarian. I can hardly afford the duck food to feed it. so I've been asking online if there is anyone in Southern California that has good experience with raising ducks to take a look at this little guy and give it the chance it deserves.
As irresistibly adorable as this duckling is, this is not the place for it. As it is still a duckling, I feel it will adapt just fine when put in the right environment with other waterfowl.
I either want a reliable owner that will take good care of it and give it all the proper care it needs, or I was thinking of sending it to a sanctuary where they could treat the leg and put it in a comfortable enclosure with other ducks.
@@eringrady5554 please email us bockbouquet@gmail.com. Hard to diagnose through a comment but ducks been niacin and riboflavin. There are a lot of those vitamins in brags nutritional yeast. They can develop leg issues from the vitamin deficiency. I hope it’s not a slipped tendon and not in pain. There are a lot of people here in the antelope valley, including us that can take the duckling in. We are a rural area
Wait... I have caygua ducks... But they literally have no wings... Why are the wings on these ones so big
Oh I don’t know, did you get them older and did someone clip them previously? Maybe?
Anyone else watching this with ducky poo on the screen?
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8-5=3 ????
How do I order ducklings online?
We got ours through cackle hatchery website
why do you guys not recycle your bedding? it is great for making compost and your plants
Since then we have started using hemp shavings.
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Thank you! We love them
Is sounds like pekin duck sounds
You need a little pond in your backyard. Or move near a lake.
They used the water bowl for food and the food tray for the water
Actually the food is in a feeder, if you put water in that it would leak all out there is no seal. We use a feeder top for the water so the ducks can dunk their heads in the water to clean their nostrils, but not fully swim to not make the brooder a mess and get the shavings all wet
Cayuga grows up faster than domestic ducks!
Yes ducks grow up so much faster than chicks. Cayugas are also a domesticated breed but we do raise Muscovy ducks which are a wild breed and we love and recommend them to raise as well. A favorite of ours besides the mallard type ducks
There were 10 at first, where are the other 5?
We wrote it on the screen briefly, but 5 of them went to a friend and we only kept 5 for ourselves
Do you all have a favorite duck breed as far as pets go?
Favorite pet duck would definitely be call ducks, we have some videos on them in our duck playlist. They are a miniature bantam breed. These cayugas are super silly full of personality and definitely a favorite as well. My other favorite would be Muscovys. I will never have a flock without them. They are sweet, wag their tails when they are happy and have a pretty whisper voice as they are “quackless.” They lay huge eggs as well. Runner ducks are pretty silly although I haven’t had them in my flock in a few years now. We just got a new rare breed of ducks called East Indies and are hoping to put a video out on them soon
Thank you so much for all the great info. I just found your channel and am looking forward to watching more of your videos. Thanks for sharing ❤️🦆🦆
@@irierose7046 thank you! Welcome to our channel 😊❤️
What happend to 5 of the ducks you had 10
We wrote it on the screen but my dads best friend purchased the other 5 from us
@@BockBockBouquet they are beautiful i love the way you guys take care of them
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Have you had a black egg yet?
Not quite yet, they are still young but should be laying in the next month or two. Can't wait to see their eggs!
I hope you update us on them.
My husband just approved duck's for me since he found out we can home them w the chicken's 🤞
Can't wait
They are a bit messy with their food and water but all the positives of ducks outshine that. We love having ducks with our chickens and we used to have geese as well. One thing to be aware of is male ducks the drakes can do harm to chickens if they try to mate with them, so that is something to be aware of especially if they are not free range the drakes can do a lot of harm. Recommend only keeping female ducks with chickens
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do the duck's do well feeding out of the feeders you have now?
Thank you very informative
Yes they do need a larger opening for them to get their bills into but most feeders sold for chickens accommodate that. We swear by grandpa feeders and have all our poultry trained to use them, we have a detailed review on them here
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It's daffys cousins lol
Haha yessss 😁
why they're 5? some dead?
We wrote it on the screen but we were only keeping 5, the other 5 went to two of our friends
Your ducks are gorgeous. So, they are able to sex the hatchlings so you get all girls? Am I right with this.
7 at the beginning; Only 5 at the end, hmmm.
Actually there was 10 in the beginning but we sold 3 to a friend and then another 2 to another friend that really wanted them. So we only kept 5 total at the end. We captioned it on the screen at some point 😊
@@BockBockBouquet Lovely; I ordered 5 f and one male; just learned about this breed. Kinda new to raising ducks.
@@michelledax4083 we are new to this breed and do not have a drake. Our friends that do, say they are good broodies and raise their young. We have kept Muscovy, call, mallard and runners. Our cayugas get along great with our chickens and other ducks. We do not have any other large breed duck drakes with our chickens as the drakes can try to mate and be rough with chickens which can hurt them if they mate them
@@BockBockBouquet Well, I purchased one drake and will see how that goes. The lady at Metzer farms in CA was so kind and helpful.
@@michelledax4083 metzer farms is great! We went through cackle for ours and had a great experience with them too
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You had 7 duck’s what happened another 2🤔🫣
We actually had 10, we were only keeping 5 and were just holding the other 5 till our 2 friends could pick them up. We put it on the screen but maybe it disappeared too fast lol. Don’t worry they all are alive living their best duck lives to this day 😂
I want this duck, what do you do with your mobile number?
keep it private
seriously .. u guyss not really good at raising duciln ... bcz u started with 10 & jst 5 make it up to adult
We wrote on the screen how 5 went to my dads friend 😂 all 10 are still alive and well
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