>smallest domesticated duck breed
>one of the largest pigeon breeds
>same size
it's too perfect

>>5015563 (OP)
I want pigeons the size of swans

something about small white birds really appeals to me

>>5015563 (OP)
Abominations.

>>5015563 (OP)
I raise call ducks.

>>5015563 (OP)
One of, but not the largest. I'm afraid it goes to this beuty.

>>5015632
Are they really that loud?

>>5015639
Girls are sometimes. Honestly as long as everyone is together and nothing is going on they are pretty quiet.

When 2 decide to do different things and they want the other to follow they will get loud.

It's honestly just a touch louder than a rooster crow but alot higher pitched and repetitive.
ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK.

The boys have a super deep billowy quack.
Huaeck
Huack
Huack
idk if phonetic noise helps.

>>5015639
Oh god when they are babies they give me headaches. But all baby ducks high pitched squeals give me a headache so that's normal.

>>5015639
This is pretty spot on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FPruc21chA&ab_channel=DunkinDucks

>>5015782
>>5015787
>>5015808
I see, I don't suppose an all male flock of ducks is possible? Maybe just a pair of males?

>>5015838
I've never done it, but around breeding season all the boys become pieces of shit.
I got several boys but even with enough girls for all of them, they are still horrible around breeding season to where I have a jail for boys who get too uppity.


Outside of breeding season they are great and I imagine you can do a bachelor flock just like chickens. But I genuinely don't know how they would act if I had only boys.

I always free range and I always make sure there are resources to where it can't be guarded. (multiple water sources, multiple food sources) and even then during breeding season I have a drake jail. They get very very narrow minded. You could kick them like a football and they would roll across the yard and get right back up tripping over themselves trying to kill whatever they focused on. It's genuinely kind of ridiculous.

I'd prepare for them to fight, I get nervous only having 2 incase something happens, cause then they lost everyone at once and are alone and that's no bueno.

But ultimately yes with conditions? But I say this having never done it. I could just have aggressive boys.

I had one named paper who didn't fight anyone and was super chill. He became a rape demon during breeding season and would get so rough he would bald the girls.
Drake jail :(.
(drake jail is a fenced area to where they can see and interact through a fence with the flock so they don't lose their standing, but it gives the girls a chance to stop looking over their shoulder).

Not gonna lie. I raise all kind of poultry and ducks are my least favorite attitude overall and cause the most problems beyond Guinea fowl (which I adore).

They tend to break your heart and be overly clingy when they are young and then super "don't you dare fucking touch me" me when they get older regardless of how much I imprint.


Sorry for the novel.
Tldr.
Yes
With conditions.
Make sure you have a way to seperate them
2 is OK, more is always better (flock, not pair).

>>5015838
If pairs are your thing. Geese are the way to go. Like dogs if you raise them and will pair off rather than build harems. Just like dogs they do kinda need training and routine.

Ducks always will get insanely mad if you break routine. If you put them up as the sun crests over a tree they will make sure you know your too early or too late and yell at you over it. But that's cute. You can always tell when your getting a lecture.


If you walk them down to the pond everyday and then you don't one day, they will scream for about, 20 minutes to try to get you to come, then march off and do the routine, then next time they see you, you get yelled at. I don't know how to describe it but you can tell your being lectured.

Not gonna lie, I really don't recommend them as pets as cute as they are. I think we are gonna be slowly phasing them out.
The poultry is how I eat.

Sorry for ranting.

>>5016184
Nah you're good man, that was a very insightful read. I wish you luck in raising the rest of your ducks.

>>5015632
Who they gonna call?

>>5016216
I'm kinda moving over to geese to replace dark meat. The call ducks were my wife's as a hobby and she just loves the geese alot more attitude wise.

So I'll pardon breeding stock she can gush over and get dark meat from the others.

Ive eaten call duck, the boys when there are too many and no one will adopt. It's sad, there's almost no meat. They are strictly ornamental. I rather kill less and get more.


Pic related. Here are my eating/laying ducks. I do mostly chickens, but I figure I got experience with call ducks for 6 or 7 years/seasons if anyone has questions I guess.

>>5016228
Other ducks into a trap so you can eat the bigger ducks. :(

They were originally bread to eat little, fit through small traps and be loud as fuck to lure suckers into the traps. I could see if you locked a female into a cage how it could easily call for miles depending on terrain.

>>5016240
Bred*

>>5016240
Why not use

>>5015564
I want bantam ducks

>>5016177
>he has a literal duck horny jail

>>5016248
I used to have one of these fucks, he'd climb up a high place and then screech until someone got him down again because he was too afraid to go himself. Ridiculous.

>>5016254
What a goober

>>5015808
God i love them

>>5016339
how can you love something you haven't even met?

>>5016246
The call duck is traditional in some country somewhere. Its like a ancient form of hunting. The call duck still exists almost exclusively as a ornamental pretty little guy. I don't even know anywhere they are still used to hunt.
>>5016248
I got one of those! His names Woodstock. He is the best guard bird and has a little harms of Batam girls.

>>5016249