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I will post up a pic of my crooked necked duck Daisy. She has a very visible neck deformity which has caused her chest to look deformed and stick out further on one side. Although she walks funny and swims funny everything else is pretty normal. She is a bit smaller than the others but she is...

We had a neighbor find a lone mallard duckling. She had it in her room, cuddled it etc. She fed it regular duck feed and let it free range at times. Then she brought it to me where I put it in with my flock. At this point he had almost full flight feathers. He followed the rest and hung about...

The weak duckling. One eye seems more shut than the other. It goes through spurts of energy. He lays a lot and sleeps though. Drinks water on own when I show him. Sleepy duckie.

The 3 ducklings seem great, they are happy with momma. The one duckling whom had the hard hatch is not doing as well. He was very weak and wouldn't lift his head. I put him inside under the lamp and have been giving him electrolytes. He is still weak but has improved since giving him drops. He...

Thanks for the advice. My duckling was very loud about not being with his/her momma! I set up a block to keep the drake out of the house and put baby back in. Daisy and my other broody Pekin and the babies are in the house. Baby and mommy seemed quite happy to be reunited. After that was done my...

My duck Daisy has been broody for quite a while now. I did not write down when she started sitting and had no idea if she was even going to hatch a egg as this is her first year of maturity. Imagine my suprise when we went in to see her and there was a little one running around sitting under...

My favorite goose Tuff-T passed away yesterday evening. He just a month shy of 1 year old. I was very sad today about his passing as it was shocking. I did not do an a autospy as I was much to sad and the thought of cutting him open hurt my feelings. He has always been the most docile goose. I...

It was a suprise. He is the biggest of the bunch, prob 25lbs.

Everyone got a good laugh from my story. I guess my gander saw me in a smallish position and decided to go to town. He has a White Chinese GF but maybe he likes brunettes?

My gander is a huge healthy Embden. He hisses at me but has never tried to attack me, well perhaps bite my coat when I turn around. Yesterday I was squatting down to put some water into their jug and suddenly I feel him climb my back (I am 5'10") so he had to climb to my shoulders and grab the...

Thanks MotherGoose. The thing is most people don't want drakes. Hopefully mine would be a easy and desirable sell because of their uniqueness. Blue Swedish and Welsh harlequin. The Blue Swedish is big and the Welsh harlequin is small. The geese are amazing, my Embden is huge and swims like a...

I have a small flock, 2 drakes, 2 ducks, 2 ganders, 2 geese. All except the 2 adult geese females I raised from hatch. I picked up the geese as adults as company for my ganders. The one gander began fighting the other gander and took the 2 females as his own. Things were rough and not improving...