Rooka_2
Songster
- Apr 18, 2021
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From what I'm reading in other posts, this is viral infection? I honestly thought it was just a molt at first on the second duck pictured. But tonight while treating my entire flock for mites I noticed it starting on my cayuga too. These birds are 2 years old, this winter they got moved into our 100 year old barn as it has a warm room with 100 feet long by 30 feet wide run attached to it.
its not working, and I completely realize that. In there I had 4 ducks, 3 geese and 30 chickens. We are working on breaking it up into 5 sections, but its going to take some time.
For now, I have the ducks seperated into a pen within the heated part of our barn. 3 females and 1 drake. I gave them a pool so they can freshen up. On hand, I gave them some poultry vitamins and electrolytes. I do have those antibiotic pink eye, visine eye drops on hand, but im in Canada and can't get ahold of terramycin. Apparently its not a thing here, i asked multiple vets a couple weeks ago when my kune kune scratched her cornea with some straw.
they are eating 17% layer food mainly, I have 36% protein food available to them as well, its mainly for the geese, but the ducks i more often see going for the 17% layer. As well as peas daily and mealworms very often.
I keep the run very clean, im in there daily cleaning up. We wash out our water bowls with soap every time we refill them. I will say, they are on concrete floor with pine shavings and last weekend when I was in there the ammonia build up in there was burning my eyes so I spent the entire two days cleaning it out, scrubbing it down with vinegar and applying DE to the floor before adding the fresh bedding back in. That's when I noticed we had a few birds with mites so I decided to treat the whole flock today with Ivermectin.
I absolutely could not get to it last weekend on during the week, I put down more DE today on the floor and in their dust baths. Tomorrow I'm planning to completely clean out and disinfect their nesting boxes which only one broody momma was using and she was one of the biggest culprits of those mites. I moved her into a brooding box, as she actually had two chicks hatch today and has 5 more that should be here by morning. There just isn't enough hours in a day.
Anyhow, I've never dealt with any type of injury or infection in my ducks EVER so please educate me on what this is and how I can prevent it in the future?
Another issue I want to make mention of, i know i have a bully rooster in my group who seems to be plucking out my orpingtons tail feathers, and honestly just too many roosters in general. They are leaving hopefully by the weekend, and i will be down about 10 birds. Next weekends goal is to separate breeds so we are definitely working at our "problems" but new ones just keep popping up. Definitely new to this, only been farming a year and a half and man oh man its like one problem after the next.
I also have a silkie/houdan cross with a massive lump on its neck, started as wry neck and tonight I couldnt believe how massive this lump had become. We treated the wry neck about a month ago when we noticed it, she has been doing great the wry neck symptoms are gone, but it almost feels like a tumor sticking out the side of her neck now. Any ideas?
its not working, and I completely realize that. In there I had 4 ducks, 3 geese and 30 chickens. We are working on breaking it up into 5 sections, but its going to take some time.
For now, I have the ducks seperated into a pen within the heated part of our barn. 3 females and 1 drake. I gave them a pool so they can freshen up. On hand, I gave them some poultry vitamins and electrolytes. I do have those antibiotic pink eye, visine eye drops on hand, but im in Canada and can't get ahold of terramycin. Apparently its not a thing here, i asked multiple vets a couple weeks ago when my kune kune scratched her cornea with some straw.
they are eating 17% layer food mainly, I have 36% protein food available to them as well, its mainly for the geese, but the ducks i more often see going for the 17% layer. As well as peas daily and mealworms very often.
I keep the run very clean, im in there daily cleaning up. We wash out our water bowls with soap every time we refill them. I will say, they are on concrete floor with pine shavings and last weekend when I was in there the ammonia build up in there was burning my eyes so I spent the entire two days cleaning it out, scrubbing it down with vinegar and applying DE to the floor before adding the fresh bedding back in. That's when I noticed we had a few birds with mites so I decided to treat the whole flock today with Ivermectin.
I absolutely could not get to it last weekend on during the week, I put down more DE today on the floor and in their dust baths. Tomorrow I'm planning to completely clean out and disinfect their nesting boxes which only one broody momma was using and she was one of the biggest culprits of those mites. I moved her into a brooding box, as she actually had two chicks hatch today and has 5 more that should be here by morning. There just isn't enough hours in a day.
Anyhow, I've never dealt with any type of injury or infection in my ducks EVER so please educate me on what this is and how I can prevent it in the future?
Another issue I want to make mention of, i know i have a bully rooster in my group who seems to be plucking out my orpingtons tail feathers, and honestly just too many roosters in general. They are leaving hopefully by the weekend, and i will be down about 10 birds. Next weekends goal is to separate breeds so we are definitely working at our "problems" but new ones just keep popping up. Definitely new to this, only been farming a year and a half and man oh man its like one problem after the next.
I also have a silkie/houdan cross with a massive lump on its neck, started as wry neck and tonight I couldnt believe how massive this lump had become. We treated the wry neck about a month ago when we noticed it, she has been doing great the wry neck symptoms are gone, but it almost feels like a tumor sticking out the side of her neck now. Any ideas?