domestic duck dumping problem - what to do now?

I finally moved them outside to live with the adults and had been comfortably living there for a few months. They are 13 weeks old. They had an enclosure I started them in and then removed it when I felt they were ready to fully integrate and it went smoothly for a few more months. Then today, I came home from the post office and the pen they live in was open. Not sure how it happened, but out of 6, 5 had gotten out and out of those 5 escapees, I only found 3. My two boys and their sister Pineberry, my other juvenile. Lychee and Rainier (pictured) were nowhere to be found. I can't stop thinking about where they are or what happened to them while I was gone. I feel so terrible for them and feel like I failed to keep them safe. I searched for hours, adjusted the cameras, checked footage, but no luck. I really hope they just wondered off into the woods and will come back once it gets dark, but they weren't taught to free roam.

Any thoughts on what breed this feathered friend is? In talks with someone who is trying to rehome two ducks. They bought them in April, but also have chickens. They are worried there isn't enough room for everyone. She was told they are brown mallards. Just curious, they are really pretty regardless.

We finally added calls to our flock! I am obsessed with them, to say the least.

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We got this dapper duckie last week but he needs a few chicas for eggs and companionship. I'm having a hard time finding any local and online charges a fortune and I don't like the idea of them being shipped.

My dad got a new duck, he would not listen and keep them appart like i told him to so now they are together since 3 days and the old girls always chase the new duck away any time she gets close. I never have had ducks before and i know they should have been kept appart for a few weeks, but i am sure yall know those kinds of parents who just won't listen.

Now i would love to know how much chasing is normal? The new girl follows the others around but any time she gets closer she is chased away. It has only been three days but i feel so bad for her.

When should one intervene and how?

Info, we had two female ducks who are siblings and now we got a third one who is also female.

(Reposting because forgot to add a pic I mean to)

Went to a beach on Lake Michigan and had some ducks come up and start following me! I figured the first one was attracted by me skipping stones (assuming I was throwing food) and then the others just kept seeing the first around me and assumed I was giving handouts (didn’t have any unfortunately for them). Such a cool fun experience!

When we moved here we knew we wanted ducks. So I bought a few books, devoured them, and then tasked my husband with the build. (The chicken coop is even more brilliant!)

I'm normally on top of cleaning but I tore my hip flexor this summer so I've basically just been mucking the coop once a month. Tonight after work he went and got a load of sand, scraped out a few buckets worth of not just the coop but also run, spread First Saturday Lime, then the fresh sand and finally shavings for the coop/nesting boxes. I do love this man!

The crate is for our new drake who is still learning to behave himself with the ladies in the coop lol. We also have a young chicken in here who our goose hatched (it's a whole story).

Chicken coop and run is next for a refresh!

Lemon looking lovely as ever and demanding my wife hold her bill precisely this way, or she gets very grumpy and honks at us.

They'll be thoroughly dried, don't worry!

This is my first year having ducks. It was going great until last week. We suffered our first predator attack. My only survivor was Pumpernickel and she is still healing a head wound. She is safely inside while we rebuild the enclosure with new maximum security measures.

I was waiting to see if she would make it before trying to find her some friends. I am not sure how exactly old she is, but she was always bigger than the other two and lays eggs already. I only intend to get her female friends, but someone just hatched some ducklings on August 15th. I won't be able to get them for another 2 weeks. Would that be too young to put with her?

Photo of the brave survivor before she pooped all over her fresh blankets.

I had a pekin duck when i was 12, he was one of the best, most sweet animals that have evee been in my life. Fast forward to 38, I was fortunate enough to be able to adopt these two babies <3

They are a grey cayuga hybrid, Misty and shes 14wks old and the black cayuga, June and shes 9wks. They were being raised in an apartment and were being sent back to the hatchery in which they came from so I adopted the two darlings... Now they have a yard, enclosure, coop, cuddles etc...June looooves to sit on laps and cuddle. She also will lay her head on your shoulder and hug back....my hearttttt...🫠🫠🫠🫠

So, we got these ducks when they were a few weeks old and they were all black/dark brown with a green sheen/hue. We thought they would be Cayugas, but since their feathers came in they are definitely not cayugas. Too dark for Kaki Campbells and wrong duckling coloring for Rouen… any ideas? Our age guess is around 5-6 weeks old right now. Quite a few have a green sheen on their head (holding one with a green head), except for one that definitely sounds like a girl.

so we spent 3 days on the water, me in my litle rowboat, and chicken dinner on a harness and leash, she swam across the lake and enjoyed the quiet and solitude of the campground and the water. here are some video of her in the big pool,

Few green feathers poking through the latest molt. As you can plainly see she can still get it though.

I'm hoping that someone might see them and tell me what they look like, and what sex they might be. They are almost 9 weeks old, and I hatched them from my Drake (Silver Appleyard and Pekin) and my Duck (Khaki Campbell and Black Swedish) here at home, so I do know what breed lines they carry. My question is, what in the world am I looking at? I can't tell if they are male or female, and they look nothing like I thought they would. Can anyone take a look and tell me what genes they pulled that are making them look this way? Also, early on, all of them made lots of deep "quacking" sounds. They are all very quiet and calm for the most part, but I can hear what sounds like really softish rasp/whistle sounds. Would being mixed breeds make it harder to tell if they are male or female? Thank you for any thoughts or help!

Couldn’t wait for his pool to fill up before getting wild

I have a fairly large flock and I can't distinguish all of my birds at a glance (especially the Pekin) and the leg bands aren't always easy to read. Any advice on ways to mark them for easy identification at a glance for following up with problems that aren't worth separating them for? Or for following up after they're released back to the flock?