Recent content by SixRouens

Thanks for the advice. Here are a couple of pictures I took yesterday. This is how she typically holds her foot. This is her injured foot. You can see the bumble on her toe. She did have another, smaller one on the pad of her foot, but I took care of that one a few days ago. This bumble...

All of my ducks are 3 months old. I have 3 drakes to 9 females. She's not using that leg at all. I did notice today that she was spreading her foot out more and would let her toes touch the ground for balance when she stood. She hasn't done that in a couple days. I have felt her toes and leg a...

This going to be a long explanation. I apologize for that. On Aug 8, my SIL told me that one of my ducks got stuck between the wall of the garage and the wire mesh of their coop. (I was on vacation. The ducks were temporarily being housed in the garage while a bigger pen was being built for...

I have an adult Rouen male that has become more and more aggressive lately. He started by chasing our cat, Daisy. It has gotten to the point that if he sees her from any distance he will take off after her. He will chase her into the woods around our house then guard the woods so she can't...

Thanks you for the advice. I am always outside with my ducklings when they get to free range so I can keep an eye of everything. I do have one more question. I noticed my adult female limping today. I checked her feet and she has an early stage of bumble foot. There are a couple of swollen...

I have seen some threads on here about introducing new ducklings to other (older) ducklings or ducks that are a few month old. But I haven't found one that is about introducing ducklings to adult ducks. If I've missed it, I'm sorry for the repeat. Okay, here is the background on my baby ducks...

Awesome. Thank you. I'll see about getting some more females. I know my dad plans of using the males for meat, but its hard to tell if he'll actually do it.

Wouldn't getting more ducklings run the risk of me getting more drakes? Is it possible for me to separate them into 2 different pens at night and have them together during the day? I haven't noticed an aggressive behavior yet, but I do want to do what is best for them. If I separate them...

I have 6 Rouen ducks. I have some questions about them as they become mature adults. Information that you will find helpful is that they're around 14 weeks old. I have 3 drakes and 3 ducks. Questions: Do I need to worry about my drakes "over using" my ducks? When should I introduce oyster...

The dog hair seems like a great idea. Too bad out dog has really short hair. If we still had our husky I would definitely try that. We've tracked the fox using our dog and learned that it's den is outside of our property. thank you all for the great advice! The big problem we're running into...

I plan on building a more secure coop to keep them in at night that will be kept by the house and a big pen for them to go in during the day. We're going to try live trapping them first, but if it doesn't work we're going to do what we need to keep our ducks save.

The reason our pen isn't predator proof is because there is nothing on the bottom. We bought it from the store where it looked sturdy, but once we put it together it was nothing like the display model. We have a boxer mix, but his leash can't reach the duck area. Due to an unfortunate incident...

Yesterday in broad daylight a fox came and grabbed one of my Rouen ducks. The fox let the duck go when we let our dog out to chase it. The duck was limping and bleeding a little, but seems fine. This morning I went out to check on our flock and our 3 5week old turkeys were gone. Our duck...

We plan on changing their food bowl soon. Our ducks need a bigger one so they'll be getting that one after it's cleaned. They are broad-breasted bronze turkeys. We handle them as often as we can. I have noticed that one of the turkeys kind of picks on the other 2. Is there anyway to break that?

My dad surprised me with 3 turkeys 2 weeks ago. I haven't really done any research on turkeys. I thought I would ask the BYC members for any helpful advice. Here are some questions I have or things I would like advice on: When can they go outside? How big should their enclosure be...