Hello,
This is my first time posting on the forum, but I've been a long-time lurker and you've helped us through mites, fly-strike and the soft shelled egg phase we went through, so thank you very much.
We've got to move down south now to take care of my Mum and we can't take our birds with us. I tried advertising them on Gumtree but I had to take the ad down after about 3 hours because of all the odd people who got in touch; it seems ducks are cat-nip to impulse pet buyers....
Anyway, I need to find new homes for 2 Mallard Drakes and 3 Plymouth Rock Cockerels.
The Mallards are about 9 months old. They are really handsome looking birds, big and strong and healthy. They seem happy living together (but we have no other ducks so that might change if they were kept with females) They are friendly but they don't like being picked up and will only let you stroke them when they're eating. They are used to living/free-ranging with the chickens and are used to our dog being out in the garden with them. They have access to a small pond and use it all the time - so they'd really appreciate access to water (but I have a spare rigid kiddies pool I can give you if you don't have a pond, we used it while we were digging the pond and they're happy enough in it - as long as they can get theor bums wet!) We feed them on corn with the chickens (we only have cockerels and an ancient ex-batt so we just feed corn, not layers) scraps and they go mad for chopped tinned tomatoes. They don't have to go together but if they go separately they need to go to homes with other ducks so that they're not lonely.
The cockerels are beautiful - they are Barred Plymouth Rocks and they are HUGE! They must be 2 feet tall! They have beautiful stripy markings, yellow beaks and legs and really red combs/wattles. They are 4-5 months old but they're not crowing yet (although we did hear a pretty pathetic practice crow the other day) They free range in our garden and we feed them corn and scraps. They have been regularly wormed and were mite-powdered at the end of summer. They get along OK at the moment - there's a bit of 'chest bumping' and squaring up to each other but it's all over as soon as it starts - our only other chicken is an ancient ex-batt though - they might not be so tolerant of each other if there were ladies to fight over. More than happy to split these boys up.
I don't want any money for the ducks or the cockerels, I just want them to go to nice homes with people who will look after them.
Topic: New homes needed - 3xBarred Plymouth Rock Cockerels and 2xMallard Drakes (Read 3106 times)