Hello All, and Thank you, Cathy, for allowing me to come
on board. I am not only new to ducks, but also to using a forum. So, please excuse my baby steps.
I've truly appreciate "listening in" on all your exchanges and will try to ask all my questions in the proper places.
My name is Sara, and we live on 38 acres in Southeastern, Oklahoma, near Ft. Smith, Arkansas. Mostly pasture, with a creek running through it. We retired here from MN 5 years ago, and fell in love with this area, with the beautiful Ozark mountains in my front and back yard views. We are glad to be where there is also milder winters, and to our pleasant surprise, around our place we see about 12 mosquito a year, even with this wet year when we've seem to have rain everyday. If you haven’t heard, the Mosquito is the State Bird of MN! Living with my husband and I, is my Father, 83, our two sons in their twenties, 3 dogs, 7 cats, 34 goats, (by Spring double that amount) and 20 Moscovy.
Actually, we fell into raising meat goats a few years back and I just adore them. This past summer with all the wet, our fly problem was to the point that if my barn wasn’t as securely anchored as it is, it would have been hovering inches above the ground. And the noise was getting close to ear drum damaging. The local OSU Extention officer suggested Moscovy Ducks. I did a little research, and we purchased 20, 5 to 7 weeks old babies.
They are flying around the place now, and like to go out with the goats, and it’s funny to watch them run toward the barn when our Livestock dogs bark a warning. I think they think they are goats. Is that normal? We let them free range during the day, (and that means they like to nestle among the goats in the barn in mid-day… and at night they have a 40 x 8 wire enclosed pen.
But, I have many questions, and there is so little information out there about these wonderful birds, and I came across this Forum. I will try to contain myself, and hold those questions for later. Thanks again for being “Out There”. Sara
