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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...