Ducks, mites or molt?

[nayeli]

I'm including several images. This all happened in the last few days.

One of them also seems to have an eye issue?

They are all less than 2 months old.

 

[sourland]

I'm not certain to what you are referencing. They look like normally growing teen age ducks.

 

[chickens really]

They look pretty great to me....Growing in feathers makes them a bit scruffy looking.....

 

[Silkiesarefluffydinos]

On the first picture, the eye does look a little swollen. I don't know what you have near you, but some tractor supply stores and Hudsons sell poultry eye drops, and if it is an eye infection I siguest those.. once a raccoon got into our chicken coop (we free range, but we had lost a chicken not long before this incident, so they were cooped) and it killed one of our chickens, one of our ducks, and injured two others. One duck had been scratched on her eye, and we treated it with eye drops for a few days, and that worked really well. If you do get them, treat your duck with 2 drops in her eye each time you give it, twice a day for 3 days. If it still looks bads, try for another day or two it should clear up. Other than that, the ducks look perfectly fine!

 

[CarleeAnn]

Here are my ducks from late May, early May, and then July (pictures got jumbled) They went through an awkward teenage phase too. Mine were born early April.

 

[nayeli]

Thank you all! I'll be watching the eye carefully to see if I need to treat it. I just don't remember this stage with our last ducklings, but we might have had to rehome them before they hit it. I think the eye might have just been irritated as it looks much better now (hard to tell which duck has it as they are all losing feathers).