Do ducks make acceptable indoor pets?

Question

I know some people keep house rabbits indoors, but can the same be done with ducks? My uni has lots of green spaces and a nice pond, I could take them there every day to swim etc...
Can ducks be housetrained a bit, or will they crap all over the floor? Maybe I could keep them in a sleeping box overnight, then let them run around the house or uni grounds during the day?
Will that work? Advice from people who have kept ducks before is most welcome.

Answer 1

NO NOPE NADA
Ducks need to be outside they poop everywhere and it is stinky and messy! They do love snails to eat though so put him n the yard.

Answer 2

Ducks As Indoor Pets

Answer 3

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Do ducks make acceptable indoor pets?
I know some people keep house rabbits indoors, but can the same be done with ducks? My uni has lots of green spaces and a nice pond, I could take them there every day to swim etc...
Can ducks be housetrained a bit, or will they crap all over the floor? Maybe I could keep them in a sleeping box...

Answer 4

I laughed out loud when I was reading this.

I've had pet ducks when I lived on the farm and I just loved them. They will come to you and follow you around and they are just the neatest thing. But the reality is that you would have the mother of all trashed dwellings if you took ducks indoors for a pet.

They throw their feed and water everywhere. They investigate everything with their beaks and will tear stuff up. They are noisy. And I don't think that letting them run around uni grounds is such a good idea. Pet ducks follow people when they're looking for food (90%+ of the time if they're awake, they're hungry) and they stand a good chance of being run over. Not to mention other folks aren't all going to be as enchanted with ducks as you are and they won't overlook the quarts of liquid crap they produce.

Answer 5

Ducks do not make bad indoor pets. They just require more attention and time. If you have dogs or cats, i would suggest to keep then seperate as the dogs or cats could harm the duck. If you don't want to keep them seperated, you can keep a close eye on the animals, and you can put them together SUPERVISED. Also ducks do go to the bathroom very often, so keeping diapers on them is good to. You also have to have a fair sized container for them to swim in. Make sure to have water and food available at all times. Good luck everyone!

Answer 6

Ducks and most fowl are the messiest pets alive. They can not control where they go potty.

There is no way to pottytrain a duck and therefore, it will never be a good indoor pet.

Answer 7

I have 4 ducks living in my garden, I've kept them for 8 years and whilst they are lovely to watch they are a nightmare when we've had to have them indoors through illness and worse when we've had to transport them in the car to their holiday residence ....pooh!!
Sometimes they come in the house by themselves , you always know it as there is usually poo eveywhere, (they are notoriously explosive!!) and it stinks!
They also have an inabilty to eat without making loads of mess, we made the mistake when we got our first Drake of giving him weetabix and water, he loved it, my walls,carpet and clothes didn't.
I also keep rats, have you thought of a couple of rats as pets? they are very easy to keep and very entertaining, and a whole lot less messy. THEY DON'T STINK! just remember to get 2 otherwise they get lonely.

Answer 8

Ducks defecate wherever they happen to be, and they do it a LOT. So no, unless you can keep them outside all the time.
There's a reason you never see ducks as inside pets...all that guano!

Answer 9

Indoors no

They are not suited to that life.

They need to be out on the fresh air.

Suggest

http://www.minkhollow.ca/HatchingProgram/Ducks-Incubation/As-Pets.html

as further reading

Answer 10

Yes, yeah yeah but what about all the crap well easy solution just put a diaper harness on the duck and bam problem solved.