We do have a small pond but it’s on the other side of the pasture and they never discovered it. We keep a kiddy pool out with water, and they seem quite content with that! Then when it rains there are some good low spots they go crazy for that fill up!

Getting ducks in is very much like herding cats. You just kind of walk behind them and escort them back in. Our ducks go all over the place because they can. We don’t have any close neighbors, and we have never restricted them. Sometimes I come across them in the woods! domesticated breeds can get up off the ground and what I call glide, but they certainly can’t get up and fly. They can get a couple feet off the ground and maybe make it a couple of feet before they come back down. Our coop is absolutely nothing fancy. It’s just a bump out of our shed, with a ramp down to the ground. Super simple and low tech!

Everyone has a different experience with them, and this just happens to be mine! I still haven’t regretted the decision, don’t miss them in the slightest (or the new paint job being pecked off my house). Good luck finding some ducklings!

So I house my ducks in the same coop as they were in before with the chickens. They don’t “need” nesting boxes, they certainly will lay in a nice corner of the coop buried under some bedding. But, mine actually use the boxes! I think they learned it from the chickens. They do free range and they will go back to the coop and lay. Ducks do *typically* lay in the early morning around the same time though as opposed to chickens that produce an egg every 25-26 hours. But, this isn’t always the case necessarily. I will say though, every morning I go and let the ducks out they almost always have already laid their egg for the day! They’re great.

I have a blue swedish, another unknown (was given to me), and I just picked up 6 khaki ducklings which are fantastic layers. I think a rooster with the ducks would be a bad idea. I have had issues with my roosters mounting my ducks and without hens around that would definitely happen.