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Author: Zoe Brodie-James

Imprinting in ducks
Incubating, Hatching & Brooding Ducks

Stop Following Me! Imprinting in Ducks & Geese

Ducklings and Goslings will follow the first moving object they find after hatching. They treat it as their mother. So even if it’s a large man with a big hairy beard, he becomes ‘mum’!

How to Care for Wild Baby Ducks
Keeping Ducks

How to Care for Wild Baby Ducks

Note: This article on how to care for wild baby ducks pertains to wild Mallard ducklings only. Domestic breeds of duck require different types of

Foie Gras
Keeping Ducks

Foie Gras

Zoe Brodie-James has written several articles on the welfare of ducks for us, some of which have been quite moving but none of them have

Commercial Duck Welfare
Keeping Ducks

Commercial Duck Welfare

Most of us have been aware of High Fernley Whittingstall’s ongoing campaign to raise the welfare standards of British commercially reared chickens, but what about

Releasing Domestic Ducks
Keeping Ducks

Releasing Domestic Ducks into the Wild

Zoe Brodie-James investigates the ethics and law of releasing domestic ducks into the wild on the local pond and finds some sad and sometimes illegal scenarios that go on there.