Since 2005, when we got our travel trailer and started going camping more often, we haven’t hatched any ducklings. Babies require constant attention. Baby ducklings require only a little bit less. But this past spring, something killed off almost all of the adult ducks in our flock. At one point we were down to three males and one female, all Buff Orpington breed.
The Buff Orpingtons are a really tame breed of duck, probably a little too tame for our area, which has a relatively high concentration of predators. So we are going back to the breed we started with several years ago; Indian Runners. They are much more flighty, so they will hold up better against hungry predators.
