Not very big ones!
The wrinkles on my knuckles should give you an idea about scale:
Smaller than a can of pop!
I had Muscovy ducks as a child, but I know next to nothing about keeping mallards. They are in a brooder right now. It’s very cold here today (in the high 40’s). So they won’t be getting wet any time soon.
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Mallards are easy keepers. We had one when I was a child that used our doghouse for a nest. She laid her eggs in his straw & amazingly, he didn’t break any of them, nor did he try to hurt the nine little ducklings after they hatched.
I know that mallards are much more cold tolerant than Muscovies, which have the worst name ever. They are from tropical or subtropical climates in the Americas, not Moscow.
The wild ones are as tough as nails, so the cute little fellas must be pretty hardy when cosseted and in no danger of becoming pike or heron food.
What happened to the mother mallard, they are instictively incredibly loyal mothers and would be devoted to the task of shepherding the babies to a river or bigger pond, so something serious must have happened here!!
She still has a half-dozen of the rest of her brood.
These are wild mallard crosses, not wild animals.
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