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Welsh Harlequin or Elizabeth Ducks
Female muscovy only have a little red or pink round their faces, which are very sweet. I thought I disliked drakes carruncles, when I first saw feral muscovy drakes. But once you have muscovy drakes and know them, their quirks, and their personalities, the carruncles become an important part... -
What type of duck is he?
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Welsh Harlequin or Elizabeth Ducks
Muscovy are by far the quietest of ducks and the females are both good layers as well as good mamas if you want to hatch some ducklings. My own muscovy are handsome black barred, black and white, and all white. But there are gorgeous lavender and silver varieties, too. Check them out! They are... -
Daisy Duckie Hurt Bad
I was referring to the links a m ready posted above. My computer, where my photos are, is down and I dont have time to fix it until after Thanksgiving. I'll sort out my own photos then -
Daisy Duckie Hurt Bad
Those are the sorts of slings/ducky wheelchairs I have for ducks that are not walking. But the duck has to want to be sat on the sling. This year my juvenile rescue with bowed tibia and foot drop did not want to be on the sling and threw himself off it when I put him on it, so I used a tote bag... -
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Mobile duck schooner...?!
Ok I now understand. As I wrote in my response above, outdoor enclosures should be a “minimum of 16 sq. ft. (1.48 sq. m) of dry substrate per bird". But I give mine far more than that and your proposals were also well above that -
Shop vac for all the feathers?!
I currently have a white muscovy drake late in his molt and a black and white muscovy drake starting. I also have 2 pekin drakes that lose white feathers and down year round -- aided and abetted by muscovy drake biting them My back yard always looks like a feather mattress has burst. I just... -
Pekin Duck | slipped tendon or niacin deficiency? Need Help!
Oh poor boy!. Ive not experience a duck with a slipped tendon, but I have had ducks -- adult and juvenile -- with gait issues. Sudden onset gait issues in adult ducks is likely to be an injury. Might be a sprain, a dislocation, or slipped tendon. Or it might be a fracture. It could even be... -
I can feel ducks ribcage 😢
I am not so sure about the significance of feeling the rib cage in musovy. The key to measuring thinness or not is how prominent is the keel. Miss Lydia has far more experience than I do and if your girl is broody and starving herself, please follow Miss Lydia's guidance for breaking her of... -
Mobile duck schooner...?!
I'm not clear what these schooners look like -- might you post a photograph. But in answer to your question, ducks need 4sq ft open floor space at night. Actually, my pekins sleep in dog crates in the duck house that are a little under 4 sq ft, and are happy. Outdoor enclosures should be a... -
Why won't they Molt?!?
I have 2 pups that think the duck pellets are better than their kibble!!! I've been feeding the ducks twice a day with food banned from the duck house because of an invasion of tree rats. The dogs have had to be banned from the garden for an hour after I have fed the ducks late afternoon, as... -
Why won't they Molt?!?
I have a muscovy drake thatvid 4.5 years old and just finishing his first big molt since getting his adult plumage 3 years ago. His partnervin crime, a couple of months older, has never had a big molt. Yet my third muscovy drake that is only 3 years old is in the middle of a big molt. Meanwhile... -
X-rays added. Surgery or endoscopy to remove large stones? Finally found the issue four weeks into hand feeding to keep duck alive
So sad for you and your girl. I dont have experience with this. I once paid for a consultation with an exotic vet and it was very expensive and the vet couldn't do more than offer to euthanize my drake. I declined as the boy had a good quality of life and the will to live. He lived another 6...