new duck mom

Hello! Just wanted to introduce myself and my ducks on this forum! I already posted on the introduction forum, but hopefully it’s ok to say hi over here as well? I’m a young adult with a passion for animals. I have four Pekin ducks that are around seven weeks old. I’m brand new to duck keeping...

Hello everyone, We have 10 full grown barred rocks and just recently bought 3 baby ducks, I'm a new duck mom and would like to know any advice, of things I should know about raising baby ducks, I'm thinking it's pretty straight forwards or similar to chicks, but not sure when we will need to...

So I may just be over anxious being a new duck mom, but I’ve had my girl (almost 2 weeks old) for 4-5 days now, and today she started pooping straight water, and then it was water with a tiny slight soft brown poo in it, then it turned to this??? They had strawberries and tomatoes today, so I’m...

Hello! The duck starter I have for my 2 baby anconas is a 22% ration, which contains 60mg/kg of niacin. is this enough or do I need to be supplementing additional niacin? also I have been told the 22% Is a bit high so I've been slightly diluting it with oats to get around the 20% mark. is this...

Hello! Brand new duckling mom here (I just brought them home today!!) - I have anconas & one of my babies looks to be panting - they are 2 days old. I don't think they're too hot as they're still huddled under the heat lamp, & I dunked their head in water & made them drink but still looks to...

Hello, I'm hoping to get some answers to a couple of questions.. Long story short, my broody hen hatched two ducklins last Thursday. I have been putting momma and the two babies in a dog create during the night and letting them out during the day. When I go and tuck them all to sleep, momma is...

Hi there! I’ve had two ducklings hatch in the past few days and I am wondering if the food I got has enough niacin? It’s mannapro duckling and gosling starter grower. I’ll post a picture of the label. It says 35mg/lb. These little babies have brought me so much joy (and stress from worrying) in...

Hi everyone! I am new to the world of duck ownership as of this past Monday. Up until today, my two ducklings have been fine, but I noticed this morning that one was sneezing quite a bit. I thought it might be some dust from the clean shavings I put in their brooder, but when I got home from...

Hello! I am a new bird owner and I am also new to this site! I don't have any chickens, but I do have 2 baby ducks! I hope that still counts! I love Marvel, especially Spiderman, so my ducklings are named MJ (brown and yellow speckled one) and Peter Parker (the yellow one)! I do not know their...

I have 6 female Runner Ducklings coming next month! I had chickens a few years back but unfortunately what I thought was raccoons that killed all of them turned out to be my MIL's German Shepard. Her dog passed a few years ago now and we've done a lot of landscaping to our yard since with more...

Whenever he eats he shakes, and we had to dip his beak in water to show him. So we decided to turn his food into mash (we mashed it up and added water) and he still shakes.... is this normal?