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Ok, so has anyone here ever had pet ducks?
Everytime I see a cute duck video there are comments about how they bathroom non stop, every 10-15 minutes
I have always theorized it is gatekeeping ducks because duck content on social media is lucrative. There are several social accounts whose owners make 5k or more a month just posting cute duck videos
Now my experience with ducks has told me, that's impossible
There are long format videos where they take their ducks out to dunkin donuts or petsmart and there is not one sign of baby with diarrhea levels of excrement
The San Antonio riverwalk, where I have spent hours eating lunch outside or watching the ducks, which there are dozens of, I have not once seen ducks walking just dripping. Nor have I seen feces on the patio tables and chairs the restaurants use, and there are even times the ducks are under our table for a while (which would be prime opportunity to get duck shrapnel on a flip flop or something)
So I am convinced, social media duck owners gate keep ducks by spreading disinfo that ducks are a non stop walkikg toilet. The internet backs them up to keep people from wanting ducks as pets.
I could never ask this on reddit or IG because Big Duck would likely tell me they are like that and thus keeping the biggest racket outside of onlyfans lucrative.
Geese leave more mess everywhere in my experience.
I have had ducks through the years, not a huge amount, at the most I had 5, mostly I am a chicken mama. They are endlessly amusing, they do have wet feces, and birds do a poo about every 20-30 minutes. They are not as engaging as chickens, but they will bond if you raise a couple from ducklings, but not the same, a hen will jump in your lap, and if they trust you, will allow you to do a lot of medical care to them without flapping and trying to escape, not so much with ducks. I had two Indian Runner ducks for several years, but a weasel got to them this past winter. Ducks are more vulnerable to predators, as they do not roost. Back to the toileting issue, they splat, they need a small pool to swim around in, but it has to be changed often as they will poo in it. They should always have water to submerge their heads in, or else mucus builds up and they can get eye infections. They will never be housebroken, but they will avoid splattering their nest or bedding, and will do it as soon as they get up in the morning, so they can be kept in a clean cage, and will wait to poop once they are out if it (within reason, like a couple of minutes, it is not like crating a dog) They can become hysterical with any threat, and will love you and see you as a caregiver but 99% of the time will run away if you try to pick them up, it is an instinct. Their wings are strong! If you hold them and they are flapping, those wings can slap you hard.
I love this post. Also, I had duck nachos a few years back at a restaurant that is now closed and to this day they were my favorite nachos.