➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[GoldenChooks]

Weeks?

Yeah! I kept mine inside for five weeks

 

[RosieR]

Yeah! I kept mine inside for five weeks

I keep mine inside until 4 weeks or so. It’s not consistently hot enough outside for them here and I don’t have a heat lamp rigged up for outside.

 

[sdm111]

 

[jwyles]

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Gorgeous bird!

 

[jwyles]

I forgot to share my pic of the local traffic I encountered on the way to school Thursday morning. (Not a great pic so jic you can't tell-it's a nanny goat with her little twin babies hanging out on the side of the road.) I had to fight with my inner child not to go full on petting zoo in the middle of the road. They were so cute y'all! Ah country life!

 

[jwyles]

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My splash.

 

[Cyprus]

Hey y'all I'm not home and I'm getting reports that a banty chick is fading fast.
They have tried ND but still nothing. What else should they do?
Chick is 2 days old. Any chance it can hold out until I get home tomorrow morning?

 

[sdm111]

Chicks that young usually there's not much you can do that would factually make a difference unfortunately. That young I would mark up to a weak chick

 

[WVduckchick]

It is a Pekin. I have 3 Pekin and 3 Rouen. All of the others feet look fine, it's only the one. They are growing really fast. The goal this weekend is to make their pen area outside bigger and more secure so they can be outside for longer periods of time so they can walk and run and exercise those legs with as much supervision. I had been taking them out and staying outside with them for @ 3 hrs a day. I will focus on giving the one Pekin with the foot problem the 1ml liquid niacin dosage alone and go from there. As well as start the transition of them being outside more than inside during the daytime hrs but still bring them in for bathtime (swim time) and in for the night. Until we get their coop all finished and they get a little older. And I'll just watch it and hope it corrects itself. I am hoping more outside time will help. It doesn't seem to be in pain. Just a little more wobbly than the others.
Thank you.

Would like to get input from @Miss Lydia and @casportpony and @CayugaJana on this and the amounts of niacin. Could you @CrazyCrttr75 explain again what you have been giving so they don’t have to backtrack. This thread has so many conversations going.

 

[Miss Lydia]

If your going to use the B complex on this one duckling that is having issues I would not use brewers yeast or any other form of niacin with it just the b complex until you see significant improvement then go back to using the brewers yeast. They only need this for their first 8-10 weeks. Although some us still supplement with Nutritional yeast a couple times a week.