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If he's getting crushed corn, you should add some vitamin B3 (niacin) to avoid pellagra, which may cause feathering abnormalities and neurological problems.
A wild female wood duck showed up recently among the many mallards I feed. She kept getting closer, so I just put up a video of her.
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@panamasipu Wood Ducks are roosting Ducks, they have slightly less webbing on their feet than "puddle Ducks" like Mallards and Teal.
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This is astounding! I've never seen a wood duck this close up before!
Have you ever given him duck feed? The little greenish rabbit food looking pellets?
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I've never seen a duck so bold around humans. That's amazing!
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what happened to his feet?? they're supposed to be webbed... that's sweet though. you got the world's most beautiful duck as a pet
Zippy is an amazing little woody. This is great info, I have moved from the lake recently and left zippy in charge of a farmer friends pond. I will c if he can add some b3 in some corn mash n leave it out. After the summer cooled off here in florida his feathers seemed to come back a bit and he decreased the scratching. maybe it was the heat here. thanks for responding...
jim28fl 2 months ago
Man you have an awesome video, He appears to be hand raised i would bet, most wood ducks dont stick around for more than a few seconds at ANYTHING they dont recognize. "zippy" is a very talkative little man too, in the wild they say that a drake Wood duck only does 1% of all calling done by wood ducks. These ducks dont quack they make that high pitched "sitting call" and "chatter" when they are roosting or on the water. I love Wood ducks, they are gorgeous!!
twinturbocobra 2 months ago
@twinturbocobra gald you liked it. he was likely, like you said, hand raised probably for a farm hunt n ended up flying off. Was a good pet, had him maybe a year or so then he matured and got more aggressive and was chasing me out the door of the porch n roaming around when he got out so i lead him off to a friends farm pond where i assume he still is. Maybe when he made the dive from the nest he hit a branch on the way down lol. who knows .... Great duck would have made a good mount....
jim28fl 2 months ago