re: Anyone raise ducks as pets?

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Really good eggs and meat

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The lone female in the group, before they left to yard late last fall had laid an egg a day for 2 weeks. We ate those.

The original mallard flew off mid summer and these 3 stayed around until October/November.

We only ate the eggs, not the ducks. Since it was approaching winter, those would not have hatched. She kept laying them around the yard every night, I’d walk out and find an egg in the middle of the yard every morning.

We have another one on the pond we hatched last year: A Khaki Campbell.

She left the other 3 early and she’s with a big Peking now. The 3 retards chase her away when she tries to come close,

Duck eggs taste damn good !

A family friend used to get his kids baby ducks as part of their Easter baskets. They’d bring them out to our pond after a little while.

My schnauzer ran several of them down and killed them. Just because.

One of them stuck his head in the mud and died that way. We came down to the pond one day and it was just lifeless with its head stuck in the muddy banks.

We never fed them, so I guess they weren’t really pets. We were more of a dumping ground.

My neighbor raises them for 'yote food. His sheep dog aren't the best protectors of their birds. Yet to see a downed sheep, so I won't hate on them too much.