Recent content by ruthhope
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Help with baby ducks and putting them back with mama.
I suggest that you raise the two ducklings in your brooder and then keep them see no touch until they are 8 weeks old before strying to introduce them to your flock Do you have a drake in your flock? A drake will try and kill a duckling drake. A drake may try and kill any duckling. I was... -
Beak injury???
Hi Jas, it looks like the duckling has banged his bill and now has a bruise -
Scared 5 week old runner ducks
These little ones are too small to be out in your garden. Particularly, while they are so uptight, they need to be in a small safe environment that they can gradually explore and accept as their own. What are you feeding them? Is that the same as what the farmer was feeding them? They might... -
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Help with Leg injury
When you say you found a muscovy duck 2 days ago, do you mean you found that your muscovy duck isnt using her left leg from 2 days ago? Or you found a feral muscovy duck not using her left leg? It seems she has had an injury or she may have slipped a tendon. Can you have a good, gentle feel of... -
What Is Wrong With Her Wings
I really dont have any suggestions only comisserations: I have a juvenile pekin with a tail and butt end looking like that. His tail feathers stopped growing and began to look broken off just like your girl's wing feathers. If she is eating, drinking and laying, I would not worry about her. I'm... -
How To Add Niacin?
I have a drake flock and they dont get supplementary niacin My son has laying pekins that he uses organic chicken layer feed as he cannot get organic duck layer feed. He adds I tablespoon brewers yeast to every cup of feed. His 5 way about 5 cups of feed a day [perhaps a little more now as he... -
Growth under ducks nail.
I'll chime in!! I'm in the clean the toe/lesion and wait and see camp Let us know if there are developments -
Muscovys gone sour!
I have an all drake flock including 3 muscovy boys. I believe your drakes are hormonal. I have one that I thought was psychotic 3 years ago when he first started attacking me from behind feet and talons to the fore. He has been progresdively less hostile to me each year, and only went to... -
Duck
How long have you had your Rouen? Is she laying eggs? Do you have other ducks? What are you feeding her? Can you feel the keel bone? It's the breast bone you can feel when you pick them up, that's running down the center of their chest. Here's a chart that shows approximately what you're looking... -
angel wing - questions
Use vetwrap or a similar bandage from a pharmacy,that sticks to itself and B ot feathers. Search the duck thread on this site for "treating angel wing". There are some good videos about binding the wings. I cannot search on my phone as I cannot see well enough, so I can't give you a link. -
Duckling has a pea stuck!!
Ducks need grit in their crops to digest anything more than crumbles. The pea will hreak up and be swallowed but not as quickly as a pea in a crop containing grit. Before you reintroduce peas, please get some small chick grit and offer it ina side bowl to the ducklings crumbles. For now, do... -
pekin duck attacked by dog
Yup it's an older perfectly good product that vets (and human docs) don't use as their training didn't include use of safe, effective and cheap gentian violet. I am "an older human doctor" and when I was training babies with oral thrush (candida) got their mouths swabbed with gentian violet and... -
How far do drakes need to be separated from ducks?
I have a drake flock and they are fine. Pecking order behavior between them, but they all stick together while free ranging in the back yard. I got another this year (now 11+weeks) who was see no touch from 8 weeks and still sleeping separately in a dog crate inside the duck house, but out free... -
angel wing - questions
I would not take the sock off at night. Leave it on and check after 5 days. At this stage, angel wing corrects quickly. It can take longer with older ducklings Your sock is great! The high protein diet cause of angel wing is a duck keepers' old wives tail. There is no evidence for that. The...