dead duck

My poor Claire passed today very suddenly we think she choked on her food. There was plenty of water but the were all fighting for the food. I went outside a few hours later to find her dead by their pool half stiff 😞. She had a mate Jim. She was a khaki Campbell and he is. What should I do for...

Hello everyone, This morning I woke up & saw one of my ducks laying in the backyard. I instantly knew she was dead, just by the way she was laying. 😞 Initially I thought an owl or hawk got her. There's no way a racoon, opossum or fox got past my dogs. But upon inspection, there was no blood...

A week ago, one of my five muscovy ducklings wedged himself into a tight gap when something spooked him, and though it eventually got itself free it took a long while to pry itself loose. It was dead by morning– I assumed that shock did him in. Yesterday, the four remaining ducklings (now...

Sadly a predator of some sort got to my duck sometime between 1 and 630am. He was in a makeshift enclosure (we found him in our yard) and the top of it had been removed (large metal grate). He was about 8 feet away in the corner. *GRAPHIC* While he had blood on his face he was fairly intact...

I have 2 duck coops, they are both pretty big, my one coop had 2 Indian runners and 2 chickens and the other one had 2 mallards and 2 pekins.. recently my 1 runner died and my 1 mallard died. No missing feathers no blood etc! Separate cages! What do you think caused their death? They are eating...

Im not sure if this is the correct forum but I wasn’t sure where else to post it other than ’ducks.’ I’m going to try and go into detail about what happened. I have 13 ducks of various breeds, 6 of which are muscovies. 2 males and 4 females, they are our only male ducks. All my ducks are about...

I had three Muscovy ducks set up on my pond. I didn’t feel the need to keep them locked up at night, so I let them roam free. But they stayed in the area. About a few weeks into this, which was a couple nights ago, one of my ducks shows up dead. With just a head, and two wings. I thought it was...

I’m on about day 21 now for my duck eggs, and one of them seemed to have stopped moving. It was basically jiggling around in the egg, floated up, the veins weren’t moving and the fetus was not either. Now, about 24 hours later, it seems the egg is somewhat back to normal but everything seems...

As part of my flock, I had 2 male Pekin ducks. They were kept in a separate fenced in area (within the main fence) as they would try and mate with my chickens a lot. My chickens and geese are in coops at night, and we were working on getting a coop for the ducks as well. I've not had any real...

Hoping someone can help me try and figure out what might have happened... In brief: 8 week domestic drake, found dead, no sign of illness or injury in good weight, last seen in apparently good health, energetic, eating well, normal everything, 2 siblings have suddenly started limping at same...

A month ago I had a flock of 10 including: 3 runners(1m 2f), 4 Campbell’s (3m 1f), 2 Anconas(2m), and 1 m Rouen. We suddenly had a horrible blizzard out of nowhere one night so when one f runner disappeared (we still haven’t found her) we didn’t think much of it, we kinda just assumed she blew...

Hi, For those of you familiar with the predatory habits of racoons, I have some questions. Three days ago, I went to lock up my ducks at about 9:45 when I saw that one of them was missing. I found her feathers strewn at the trunk of an oak tree, and upon looking up, discovered her decapitated...

I hate to be writing this. I had three pet ducks that were about a year old. A male Pekin and mallard and a female cayuga. We live in a very suburban area with lots of houses and not too much land. In the beginning of April found the females eggs taken from our yard and the hutch was open a bit...

hi all I just went to put some of my ducks indoors for the night and discovered one of them dead and I have no idea what happened. Hoping someone is online now who can give me any thoughts on what it might be or what I can do in the morning to try and work out if it was anything contagious And...

Madge, one of my three Welsh Harlequin ducks, passed away yesterday. We found her a few minutes after her death a small distance from where the ducks normally free-range. Her sisters were calm, so she must have passed away quietly or they would have heard her and freaked out. She had no visible...

This morning something terrible happened. My Cayuga ducks, Mochi, who I raised when she was just a little duckling, passed away today. We woke up getting ready to go on a family day trip when it happened. I saw her laying on the ground outside completely unable to move. She was just flopped...

I'm going to make this short, I found a dead wild duck in my yard and the breasts were completely eaten and gone. At first I thought my dog must have gotten this duck but after seeing it eaten I'm just not sure. Two years ago he got one of my chickens and play trampled it to death but didnt...