After raising duck, what to do with it?
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I want to raise a duck egg, but im not sure if i want to keep the duck for its whole life. i was wondering if after raising the duck, you could release it into a pond with other ducks in the wild or not.
What do you think? Answer below!
9 Responses to After raising duck, what to do with it?
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You still have that shotgun in the basement. Right?
Kahuna Awsome
August 8, 2012 at 3:35 am
Yes you can release it into a pond. 🙂
Madison Kelly
August 8, 2012 at 3:42 am
Wow..U are Raising a duck! Aww..How Cute.!! ^_^ & Yeah I think u cn surely release her into sm pond Wid other ducks.! ducks like evry other bird/animal have to adapt d natural ..(their type ) environment 🙂
Dolphinluver
August 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
I think you would need to be an experienced trainer for something like that.
russ c
August 8, 2012 at 4:16 am
not a good idea, if you’re not sure you want to keep it. it’s chances of being able to survive in the wild are drastically reduced by being raised by a human instead of it’s mommy. it won’t know how to survive on it’s own, and will be incredibly lonely, because it will never learn how to interact with other ducks. in addition, baby ducks “imprint” meaning that the first thing it see’s, becomes it’s “mommy” and the baby’s gonna constant care, attention, and supervision.
dani s
August 8, 2012 at 4:54 am
Yes you can release the duck that you raise into the pound if you want to. It will be fine in the wild with the wild.
Mariah 123456789
August 8, 2012 at 5:51 am
Releasing the duck into the wild would depend on its breed and its handling. Releasing a duck that has been raised by humans into the wild is rarely ever a good idea, mostly for reasons that involve it getting hurt/killed because it will not run from the little kids throwing rocks at it, it will not have the knowledge to avoid dogs and other predators, and it will not have the know-how to keep itself safe. There is always a chance of survival, but more often than not these released pets end up dead.
Some species, like mallards, migrate during the fall, and your little home-grown duck wouldn’t know where to fly to (the parents usually show them the way). Also, ducks usually stay with a flock of their own kind. If you buy a foreign breed of duck and release it… well, you can see the problem there. If you want to raise a duck, but don’t know what to do with it after, consider whether you really want to raise a duck! You can always keep it as a pet though (that is often done, they even sell bird diapers now for indoor birds).
Kat
August 8, 2012 at 6:44 am
if you dont want to keep the duck then its better not to get involved with raising it. over many years I have seen domestic type ducks released into a local woodland park. So many of them……. and not one of them survived longer than a year or two at most. one of them hooked up with a mallard male and lasted a few years but eventually they all get killed. (the mallards also are getting crushed we lost many hundreds over the past 10 years)
the problem is PREDATION. for all of them, hawks, foxes, coyotes kill them with ease and ducks MUST rest on the ground. and predators are increasing in numbers particularly predator birds. maybe 10 years ago the released duck could survive a while, but NOT TODAY..
get a canary or parakeet or parrot, a caged bird is a live one.
fortuitouz
August 8, 2012 at 7:07 am
You could release it, but it might not survive because it was raised by a human and doesn’t know the first thing about living in the wild. Or you could send it to a zoo or animal shelter.
Hing
August 8, 2012 at 7:40 am