giving ducklings niacin supplements??

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I wish they sold that around here
I found it online at tractorsupply.com. I should have bought it two days ago because it was 15% off! they had feed on sale too. if anyone knows of a reliable coupon for Tractor Feed, please share. I had a booklet of $1 off coupons for livestock and dog food but they're just about gone. They had them at the grand opening of their store where I used to live.
 
NEVER feed medicated chick starter to ducklings! They eat too much and get too much of the meds! I used nutritional yeast to supplement my ducks. I had 3 that were lame. the Nutritional yeast might have helped some but adding some (a few droppers) of colloidal silver to their food seemed to do the trick for them. 2 recovered completely and the 3rd one is still having issues. Get some non medicated feed!
I lost my little pigeon toed duck the other day, and I feel so bad. I think I could have saved him had a brought him inside and kept him under a heat lamp. He was about four months old, and had lost a lot of his feathers being trampled on by the other ducklings. Its always a hard decision whether to separate the weak ones and cause them more stress or to leave them with the others and let nature take its course. the problem with the lame ones is that they have a hard time getting out of the water, they get soaked and then they don't dry off enough before sunset which comes quickly in the winter months. I bring them in my horse trailer at night lined with fresh shavings, and insulated, but its been very cold here. Dry and cold, which makes it bitter and even inside my house its difficult to stay warm with a wood stove blaring and my space heaters (don't have a working furnace). My poor little duckling took his last breath under a heat lamp where I put him after I wrapped him in a soft towel. He was fine that morning, but after a swim in their little pool, he couldn't dry off and we got a late start. Always start early with ducks in the winter, so they have enough time dry off and preen before the sun sets. Especially in dry high desert climates. I don't have the same problem with my wilder ducks like the Australian Spotteds. They seem to have better protection against the elements, and they are much more agile. The domesticated ones are more helpless.
 

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