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I have a friend that is battling health issues and is going to be traveling out of town for 3 weeks. She doesn't have the strength and stamina to secure her old dilapidated coop and run before leaving. I offered for her to bring her 6 chickens over with their tractor so we could care for them...

Our Cayuga has an injured foot. One of his toes is separated from the web. I put wonder dust on it to stop the bleeding and put him in a dog crate bedded with hay and food and water. Any suggestions appreciated.

Mom muscovy has been sitting for entirely too long. Her eggs keep rolling out from under her and getting cold. I did slip a couple of other abandoned eggs under her thinking possibly she could hatch them. I relocated the nest but many of the eggs were dark so I thought that it was time to...

Crazy Broody Muscovy hens!! I have experienced great frustration with trying to keep my Muscovy ducks safe. We have dealt with snapping turtles, blocked dangerous or inaccessible areas, or so we thought, that they could lay to no avail. I CANNOT get over how very broody they are. Our numbers...

Little Charlie is eating and growing but has a hard time swallowing water. He has rubbed the feathers off of his head and back. Seems awful Coincidental that I have had two ducklings with the same symptoms. Been adding B complex to his water. What is this? Advice?

I have a muscovy that has been nesting in a box that is elevated 2' off the ground. Two of the three eggs have hatched. I am afraid that the two are going to get curious and active and fall out of the nest and get hurt or not be able to get back to their momma. I think they hatched yesterday...

Can anyone tell me what I should do for a duck that has been stung by yellow jackets? I am not sure how many times he was stung. I was stung once before realizing that I was on top of a nest. Stevie, the little darling, was sticking close to me waiting for another worm or other goody. He was...

I have 3 muscovy that have become so broody that some of their hatchlings were left to fend for themselves once they hopped out of the nest. I took them in and put them with Stevie, one that i had to take in due to health issues. The nest was in a kiddie pool so I am wondering if that was a bad...

Stevie has trouble with swallowing water and crumble/mash. Worms and scrambled eggs seem to go down fine. This doesn't look like wry neck that I have researched. It's as though the food gets caught. I'm not sure why he has trouble with water. I have been giving B complex. Any ideas on what may...

Hello my duck friends.:frow I have a little muscovy that is 6 days old. CUTENESS ALERT: His neck does not look like the wry neck that I have read about. In fact the trouble only comes when he eats or drinks and then that isn't all the time. The little one will hold his head back touching it...

These 5 week old muscovy babies were orphaned 3 weeks ago when their momma disappeared. I put them in the coop, in a separate crate, with 3 broody muscovy hens. After a new clutch was hatched I moved them out.of the crate and into the common area in the coop. They have done fine however they...

I have 6 brooding Muscovy. One clutch has already hatched. The mom had those tiny babies out foraging all over including the pond. One of our girls that hatched 2 ducklings about 4 weeks ago disappeared leaving her babies unsure of what to do. We miss our Sweetie Pie:hit I put those two babies...

I have moved muscovy girls into the coop to try to train them to lay there but the fellas keep coming around the coop making their huffing noises getting the girls all in a snit. So much so that one of the girls flew and clung to the window and broke the pane to escape! What would happen of boys...

Will muscovy lay if separated from a Male? Do they have to be bred each time they lay an egg for it to be fertile? If I remove the eggs will they still keep laying? My only experience with this was the female was irritated when I kept taking her eggs. I left her a few and she decided that she...

We have three ducks nesting under our house in an inaccessible place. We have no idea what is going to happen to them. We can't protect them and we have no idea how many eggs they have.:idunno In a desperate effort to control the duck population around here, I spent yesterday morning trying to...

I discovered our Male standing guard outside of one of our buildings that is in need of repair. I have seen him there before but couldn't find a nest or even where I thought that a nest could go. Well this morning I dug a little deeper and found the little booger. She has put her nest under a...

One of three eggs hatched just before noon yesterday and the second in the late afternoon. The third and last egg has no signs of cracks. Is it possible that the egg is bad? Momma is still sitting very attentively on that last one but the first two and beginning to get a little bored and...

We have 6 ducks that have gone under our farmhouse to lay. It is not accessible at all. We had been trying to keep an eye on them. All of a sudden most of them disappeared! We thought that they may have flown off. We looked everywhere or so we thought. We have two barns, a coop, springhouse...

this is my first time experiencing ducklings hatch! Their little peeping is precious. It's amazing to watch Sweetie Pie (mamma muscovy) lovingly turn the eggs and fluff out as wide as possible to keep them warm. I just had to share :)

We have a old farm that built in late 1800's. It already had a chicken house. Just wondering if anyone can advise or make suggestions on how to best accommodate our ducks if I share pics. There are already roosting posts. Some are over a large boxed in area that I am not really sure of its...