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Ducks bang the beaks all over tge place where in a run with bars tgat can inflict bumps or foraging more widely. Then, particularly with drakes, there are ducky squabbles that can lead to grazes. My flock are all boys and I have a particularly pugnacious pekin drake, Louie,: too pugnacious for...

I just realized that I wrote how much salt but not how much boiled and cooled water. 1tspn salt dissolved in 1 cup boiled and cooled water I have amended my original comment to include the cup of water

My boys and my son's 4 females and one drake, are now in the habit of hanging around the garden side gate when it gets close to bed time. For my drakes, that also means that they are hanging round near their coop. Except for one, that is, who remains sitting behind the shed on the compost...

I think that eye will rapidly get better if you bathe it in salt water. Dissolve 1teaspn salt in 1 cup of boiled and cooled water. Use the solution luke warm or room temperature. I wrap my duck in a towel and then hold him against my body with one arm leaving the and free to hold the...

That's sad. Nature isn't always kind, but you still have 4 little fluffies. Think about them and don't dwell on the 5th

Coconut oil to promote wind healing--I have no experience or prior knowledge of that. Very interesting. I had not thought of ants as a problem: I always bring needy ducks (and cockerels) into my house. I am fortunate in having 2 bathrooms and generally use my bathtub as a sickbay. I agree with...

No just apply soft/runny honey into the hole and round the edge like a paste. It won't cure a tumor but may well help the infection to heal. Please use Bayatril at the same time to clobber the infection. You can flush out the honey and any debris that comes with it after 24 hours and reapply...

Yes, Baytril I still think that it's worth a shot with a honey poultice to treat the wound locally while treating infection systemically with Baytril

Injections only in cattle! Durvet high level Vit B complex is well absorbed orally by ducks. 1 ml soaked into a few meal worms every day until symptoms are resolved plus 2 extra weeks.

I can see what seems to be a small defect in the corner of the bill. I would judiciously "wait and see" but treating it as if it's an infection as already advised won't do any harm. They are both little cuties!

So glad you let her brood those eggs! I love her little fluffies!

The crest abnormality can arise from a spontaneous mutation. That would be the explanation if you had one crested duckling. As you have 2 in the same clutch, my conclusion is that one of your ducks is a carrier of the crested gene but it is not expressed in that parent . Variable expression of...

Muscovy fit many of your requirements but few if any ducks lay through the winter, and, need those cold months to recover their nutritional best health. Unlike chickens, no ducks can be trusted to take themselves to bed in the evening. Muscovy are quiet! They are good layers and muscovy...

I think this poor duck has a tumor that causes tissue death. Gross as it is, the maggots might have been helping by eating away the dead tissue. I think the advice on how to get rid of the maggots from @Miss Lydia is good. The best follow up is with a vet. If that is not possible, please...

My muscovy drakes are by and large stinkers. One, Daffy, bathes daily but the others don't bathe from one month to another and require hosing down when they get too ripe [and they don't like being hosed down.] My son had a beautiful female muscovy who held her own having splashy baths multiple...

Raccoons, as you have now experienced, are a major predator for ducks. They are incredibly strong, dexterous and wily. You can't leave a key in a lock on a duckhouse as tgey will turn ot and get in. They burrow under walls and fences. And if the can't get in aduckhouse but can put an arm...

Yes, unfortunately there lots of other infections so it would be interesting to know what symptoms @WaterfowlsPoultry 's flock displayed. The D.Agr only kills birds when one has tested positive.

Avian 'flu is a notifiable disease. Big fines for people who don't report and are found out. If a vet is involved, they will report. If a commercial flock is involved, Agriculture inspectors come round to any known neighboring flocks and test. Two or three years ago, several BYC members...

Don't worry and don't be sorry: I had to look it up!!! I had an inkling it wasn't spelt right as I have a painting of mergansers on the wall in my guest bedroom [my house is full of duck naff, I just can't help myself buying it]

Mergansers are ducks and so I think they likely can cross breed, but the offspring might not be fertile