Environmental & Social behavior of duck

Ducks are well adapted to rivers, lakes, canals, ponds, and other aquatic location. More over they can be raised successfully in estuarine areas. Most oceans bays and inlets teem with plants and animal life that ducks relish, but (unlike wild sea duck), domestic breeds have a low of physiological tolerance for salt and must be supplied with fresh drinking water.

It is generally well known that ducks are shy, nervous and seldom aggressive towards each other or, human. They spend many hours each day bathing and frolicking in any available water. However, most breeds can be raised successfully without swimming in water.

Although wild ducks normally pair off, domestic ducks will mate indiscriminately with any female in a flock. In intensively raised flocks, one male to six females, and in village flocks, 1 male for up to 25 females, resulting in good fertility.

Most domestic ducks, particularly the egg laying strains, have a little instinct to brood. If not confined they will lay eggs wherever they happened to be occasionally even while swimming. To facilitate egg collections, some keepers confined ducks until noon.