Waterfowl are vectors, keep it away from wild waterfowl.

Thanks for sharing your duck story 13 years ago. We just moved into an apartment with a duck pond 50' from our back porch and it's got all different kinds of ducks and geese. The ducks are nicer and there are different ones, ratty ones, mean ones, wussy ones, skinny ones, fat ones...very often a new gang of teenie tiny ones under mom's feets. They're always fighin for territory or humpin each other. It is quite the backyard reality show. The geese are another story, there is this one that looks different than the rest and he's always causing trouble with the ducks. He's the alpha goose and he doesn't let anyone forget it for a minute. Somebody needs to mess his 6.75lb feathered butt up. Alpha goose pic included.

It looks like an Egyptian Goose. 8-] ICA, Sophie ^i^

Domestic hybrids ... note the colored head and neck. If I had to guess, I's say Rouen with some Khaki Campbell or Orpington to get the tans. And Cayuga to get the deep green/blacl The Rouen duck looks a lot like a mallard but much larger. This is what happens to the cute ducklings they sell at Easter.