@@LilyConnor-f9h adorable aren’t they! 🥰

Thank you! :)

Hey! We are located in Christchurch :)

I have made a 3 phase bog filter for it that runs 24/7, I also drain it via the pump every couple of weeks into our veggie garden :)

@@TheDuckDiariescan you make a video showing that?

@ yes definitely, we are just over seas at the moment though. We will be back mid January ☺️

@@TheDuckDiaries ok awesome, im going to subscribe so i can hopefully get to that video. We had ducks for years, i LOVED them. We’ve only ever had little pools for them though… like everywhere… pools everywhere lol. It was such a pain. I want to get ducks again but i really want to figure out how to do what you did… one big pool that stays put… somehow clean the water without emptying it everyday. I know there’s plants you can put in the water to help with that also, but im thinking a big filter of some kind. But does yours get filled up with gunk? Do you have to clean your filter? Im very interested how you did this… thanks in advance!!

@@meadrockbreaker796 It is a great alternative! Hopefully it has given you some inspiration. Do you have a homestead? 😊

@TheDuckDiaries love how raising it will also help minimize the amount of dirt they track in and digging around the base, trying to turn my 3000 ft2 (279 m2) backyard into a mini homestead

@@meadrockbreaker796 exactly! Oh that’s awesome, we are on about 1000m2. Trying to do the same thing 😊

@anitaalvarez538 Interesting! Sounds like you got the best result! I’m still working on him, he is persistent 😂

Thanks! Currently working on the bog filter so we can keep it clean. That video will be coming soon 😊

@@ghostcreeper_ Welcome back! 😊

Thank you so much for watching! We’re so happy you enjoyed the video:) It feels a little mean when you first start having to do it. But to them the aggression can often come from not knowing where in the pecking order they stand:)

Hopefully that’s not too bad of a thing 😊

@@ghostcreeper_ Hey thanks! I really appreciate it! We are very excited about the next video! Lots of cool things to come! 😊

Hi there! Im sorry to hear that about your duck! Have you tried researching wry neck or swayback? We are no duck experts and haven't experienced this ourselves, but from what you've described those two would be my best guesses. Sounds like you are being an amazing duck parent and doing the best you can with the situation🥰 I hope you figure out what's wrong with him and help him as best you can❤️

@@gregant9864 thank you! I mean how could you not love ducks 🦆❤️

You're off to a good start training him. What's your Drake to female duck ratio?

@@juliebirb7162 Thanks! We have 2 Drakes (Squirt and Donny) and 5 females ☺️

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@@littledevildarling-2017 lovely 🥰

@@TheDuckDiaries They sure are.>w<

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@@evelynvinet6956 He is the sweetest, all grown up now 🥰✨

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They can be a lot of work, but if you have a place for them to swim and a safe place to sleep and keep them well fed and show them lots of love they will be very happy ducks 🦆 ❤

@@amoresmmdc3344 So sweet isn’t he ❤️❤️

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@@annamelnyk2445 yeah they are incredibly social creatures. Adopt another one ASAP! 🥰

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Great idea! Thank you ☺️

​@@TheDuckDiariesYou are very welcome. 😊

So glad! Messages like this make my day! ❤️

Yeah they can, not very high though ☺️

Aren’t they just so gorgeous! 🥰

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Your welcome, much more to come ❤️❤️

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We have 2 of these shells. But that is absolutely the plan! How do you filter your pond? 😊

​@@TheDuckDiaries Ohh perfect, they absolutely love it!! So my family and I have a 1.6k litre pool, you know one of the ones you can buy for the summer for your garden! Right now we have two ducks, needing to get a few more which we'll hopefully have in a month or two. Usually we will just empty our pool using a DIY syphon, so basically just a bit of hose pipe that we can kinda wriggle around on the bottom of the pool to suck up all the grim stuff the ducks have dragged in as well as their poop!! We also use the pools draining system too with the little plug on the side but if you do get one of those kind just think about where the drain is because we to stick our arm in right to the bottom and unplug it. It's about 60cm in height. When we drain it, we use gutters to carry the water to the bottom of our garden where we have a bunch of fruit trees that absolutely love the ducks poop water lol, we do this so that it doesn't flood where the pool is. My mum is planning on making a better draining system in our pool! We were going to purchase a proper filter but thought it'd get blocked with all the ducks dirt so we have decided against it unless we find one specifically for them. Right now we empty it once a week, perhaps more when it's hot as the pool gets even more green on hot days! My mum built a ramp for them to get in and out as its high off the ground. They also will need a little place to stand in the water as they're way out of their depth, I believe they can drown if not 😬 If I remember and you'd want me to I can update this comment when we've sorted our pool out a bit more. The bigger pools are a faff but the ducks adore it and spend most of their day floating around. It's also better if you have a drake as when they mate the female won't hit the bottom of the pool, just make sure the boy isn't too rough or a lot bigger than your girls because he'll squash them under. I'm sure you already know but there's no harm in mentioning it. We have one boy and one girl, I know that ratio is not recommended at all, we watch the girl very closely to make sure she's not showing signs of over mounting. It's probably not the best but they are separate at night as she is quite a big lady and he is very frisky 😳 He's I think 1.6kg-2kg and she's 3.6kg so they have a big size difference. Just a note, we didn't originally plan for ducks and would've got more girls but these guys were very spur of the moment rescues from a lady (she had 3 very very young kids) who had them forced on her when they were ducklings. Literally my mum told me about them the second I left college, a few hours later we had 2 ducklings in our living room. We were able to take them as I know a bunch about ducks because of a certain situation a few months ago and my mum has already had ducks in the past. Our female we found out had a respiratory infection of which she'd have died from if we hadn't taken her to the vets, we took her literally a day or two after rescuing them. She had the infection prior to our care ☹️ But she is healthy now!! She got over it very well after given some medicines. Our male is kind to her, she is happy as she is, there'll be more girls in the future after we sort their permanent coop out! We're watching them very closely and don't think it's a good idea to rehome the drake because they have formed such a good bond and have been together through thick and thin 🙂 It's not an ideal situation but it's what we could do for them. I think she'd have died if she stayed with that poor lady much longer because she didn't seem to notice or know much about the care they needed, plus she already had her hands full. There was another person going to look at them the next day but we snatched them up ASAP because we weren't sure that person was actually able to have them and look after them properly and the poor duckys didn't look very well. Anyways sorry for the huge text wall lol, lmk if you have any more questions 😊 One last question what breed of ducks do you have? The white ones look like pekin x runner ducks and the black and white is perhaps a magpie or cayuga? I'm not very knowledgeable on a lot of duck breeds, only a few! Our girl is a Pekin and our boy is some sort of runner cross rhouen or something like that!

@@pineapple-pop9936 Wow that’s a big pond. We had a bigger pond for them we dug out and used pond liner, but we went through 2 pumps so went back to shells. That’s really kind of you rescuing those ducks, love to hear stories like that! We have 5 girls, Billy (pekin x Rouen), Milly (Indian runner x unsure), CeCe (Cayuga), Baby & Cody are both Cayuga x either Rouen or pekin and then we have 2 boys Squirt and Donny who are both Indian runners. We don’t have the perfect ratio either, ideally we would have more girls but don’t have the space at the moment. Thanks for your comment 😊

@@TheDuckDiaries I can't imagine having 5 ducks with a filter on a pond 🤣 goodness me! Our method is a bit of a hastle but it works for us, it does take a while to do but our ducks absolutely love it and they get quite upset quacking around when they don't have their pond!! Our male jumps in it and he's very displeased to find it empty 🤣 We actually have another male, one from my mums work who's a khaki Campbell, he had to have his thingy removed as it became necrotic, her work can't look after him so he's with us right now. We can't keep him because of our location and space available, he doesn't stay with our ducks but he definitely needs a forever home 😢 my mums work management are a bit useless with their ducks so we're not really sure what's happening! I do hope you're able to find a good pond and method of cleaning it, it's a nightmare sometimes lol

@@pineapple-pop9936Hey, thought I’d come back here and tell you about how they now have a bigger pond! New KZbin video posted about it 😊

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