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Can you overdose ducklings on Niacin/Nutritional Yeast? How much Nutritional Yeast do I add per measuring cup full of moistened non medicated chick feed? I have been through all 4 pages of this discussion and have not found an answer :X After 6 years of no ducks have 4 call ducks heading on 2...

I am not sure if it would help much but I have called the feed store I got the duck from and told them they need to inform the hatchery. I am hoping the hatchery may be able to reevaluate their breeding stock and prevent another Dizzy from being born.

Sorry I got a little preachy, I just feel so bad for Dizzy. I am not condemning people that buy crested ducks or those who breed them in responsible ways to try and avoid the problems (such as breeding crested to non crested) what I am saying is that I personally will never buy one or ever...

The other ducks are from the same store from the same pen ("hatchery mix") so if it is contagious the damage has been done. There are 6 total in a nice big plastic kiddy pool full of straw (so there is soft bedding for Dizzy to land in and only round edges to run into) and so far there is no...

Yeah when I asked the feed store what they were going to do with them they could not give me a straight answer so I told them "give them to me free and I will give them a chance" and they obliged. They likely would have just been rid of them D:

Yesterday I took home a pair of very young ducklings with problems from the local feed store, a lame runner duck and a dizzy crested duck. At first I was really concerned the crested had something serious and contagious, or maybe wry neck. It walks low to the ground, holds its head a bit too...

My niece works at Petsmart and they had 2 finches come in that they could not sell because they are missing a leg, so she gave them to me. I have them in the house for quarantine and also because it is so cold to add them to the aviary outside having no time to acclimate. The thing is I did not...

Here are the colors I got, I have been calling the pale one a lavender (I also posted a closeup of the one roo's nice dark feet and beak, the parents had pale skin so this was a nice surprise too)

I am not sure if the color is called a lavender cuckoo per se, but the chicks with stripes on their back came out barred in a very pale shade of gray which I say compares to a lavender, and all the parents bred where regular colored cuckoos so I have no idea how I got this. I will get a picture...

conclusion: use bleach, coop came with mites D8< Noticed them 3 days into using it, luckily it was not near my big coop and I could quarantine the 3 chickens I put in it and treat them for bugs. The coop and entire area was sprayed with Sevin hose attachment yard spray, then put out front and...

I dosed with vit B and E and within 30 hours he was fine, I did not give him any further treatment as it is so easy for a chick this small to aspirate when forced medication, considering the symptoms did not reappear I am chalking this up to stargazing caused by poor placement in the egg.

Updated: my cuckoo X cuckoo breeding did produce barred hens and roos (way more roos though) and anything with a pale dot became barred and the striped ones came out lavender barred.

looking up "stargazing chick" this seems more likely than wry neck, especially since it can be caused by poor placement in the egg which it did need help (all my chicks unzip in 20-30 min, this guy I had to help after 90 min), but stargazing needs to be treated with vitamin B so now I am...

I had to help a serama hatch last night, got half unzipped then sat for an hour. I noticed the behavior right away but I was hoping it thrusting its head back was a reflex from being trapped in the egg, but 12 hours later it's still doing it, and it may be worse. It also tosses its head side to...

I am just being careful :) It came to me power washed and very clean, not a speck of grime, I would have said it looks brand new if not for discoloring where parts meet the ground... buuut I never saw her chickens so who knows what was in it! I rely on Lysol for my quarantine procedures (spray...

I got myself a little used coop and run off Craigslist, it is a small factory brand one used just a few months to grow out some chicks, the entire length is just 4 feet. It came to me power washed and I just emptied an entire can of Lysol on it every square inch of wood and wire inside and out...

So are the chicks with spots defiantly barred but also defiantly male? I am hoping for both barred males and barred females.

So anyone without a white spot may not be barred? And the spots mean defiantly barred, so these guys should be barred? Some have very faint pale dots, is this indicative of barring? I do have 2 that are striped and one has a nice big white dot on its head, they also have the palest skin so they...

I have tried to do my own research but I am finding very mix information on how the genetics work with cuckoo silkies and I am very confused on what my 10 chicks will end up being. I bought a rooster and 3 hens a couple months ago, all with mottled skin and wonderful form (nice big hair puffs)...

I may have hated the process but it puts my mind at ease that there is very likely no chance there is a mite or nit left alive on these birds, with the feathers on their feet I feel that dipping them in gas was really the only sure fire way to be sure to fry every trace of mites. I am also...