Ducks
Our ducks
We have ducks for two years. Ducks are omnivorous, like chickens and humans.
 Ducklings in summer coop
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 Ducks on the way to winter coop
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At summer
- Ducks eat water worms, slugs, snails and frogs
- They live in mobile coops similar to chickens
- They lay eggs in the grass
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At winter
- Ducks eat grains
- They live all together in their winter coop
- They don’t lay eggs
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In general, ducks live between 5 and 10 years. How old are our ducks? On our farm we have three generations of the ducks: three years old, two years old and almost one year old.
 Ducks in the pond
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 Male duck
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- Ducks are cold hardy and like swimming even during the cold days
- They are very funny: they follow you when you walk from them, but they run away from you when you approach them
- They can learn new things, for example, how to climb the stairs or how to recognize their own coop
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How to tell a male duck (drake) from a female duck? By their tail. Few feathers of the tail of the male duck are curled up.
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