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[quote=Anonymous]You will need to have a baby bath tub with water in it and you will need to change it DAILY. You will need a separate small water pool or large bowl for them to eat. They will take their duck food and put it in the bowl of water to eat the way they do. Its very cute.

They poop a lot. The poop WILL attract rats, eventually. We lined the cage with a layer of thick pine mulch nuggets which we could hose down and the poop would kind of break down undeneath the mulch. Its not really smelly poop, unlike chicken poop. But its definitely not nothing when it piles up.

You will need probably two small baby pools. Emptying them is harder than it looks the bigger they are.

Ducks are flock animals and very much aggressive with each other. You will have to get only females if you dont want a full blown breeding situation. Female ducks are LOUD, males make a much softer sound. If you get only males you still deal with the aggression and dominance issues with each other.

They are way more work than they seem at first.

Whereever you read that they do not need a pond is technically correct, but then you dont need a house either. You could live in a shack or a trailer. Or a cave.

If you care about the quality of life of these animals, which bond with each other and form long lasting relationships, you need to have clean water always available and you are signing up for daily work.[/quote]

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