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    Bare duck wings

    Thank you! Great to know what I am looking for!
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    Bare duck wings

    Our local Tractor Supply says they have permethrin powder for chickens - not a spray but close enough?
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    Bare duck wings

    I am not familiar with self-pruning - it sounds like duck OCD? - what can I do to help her? Thanks.
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    Bare duck wings

    That seems to be the logical next step. I will give it a try. Thanks!
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    Bare duck wings

    Possibly as long as 9 months - so about half her life. It does vary and several times I've thought the problem was resolving. But the obvious stress factors aren't active right now yet she looks more bare and winter is coming on.
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    Bare duck wings

    She is very dark colored, so you don't really notice the problem until she stretches out her wings and I never seem to have the camera handy when that happens. It just looks kind of skeletal - about half the wing has bare quills.
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    Bare duck wings

    Looking back I see the way I wrote, it looks like I am saying I give chicken-flavored cat food as their primary food. I meant I give chicken (Poultry) food and cat food. In fact, give two kinds of poultry food daily - one is indeed the all-flock from TSC, and the other is an all-waterfowl...
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    Bare duck wings

    I have 3 ducks: one Pekin (male), one Kahki (female) and one female offspring of the other 2. The "daughter" has had - with varying intensity - bare quills on her wings for months. In the spring I thought it was overmating/aggression/stress from the male, then I thought maybe a misfire on...
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    Female Duck health question, need voice of experience please

    Thanks for the help. I was feeling like I had let it go too long already but you are right, it has only been a week since the dynamic changed and now that you mention it, 'Dad' has been reasserting his power over daughter - pecking her away from being first at food, bath - now that the males...
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    Female Duck health question, need voice of experience please

    I watched my female Khaki pulled out the feathers on her back, between/under her wings, about 4-6 weeks ago. The feathers did not grow back. At the time, her 4 offspring (3 males, 1 female) were coming to maturity so there were 4 males/2 hens. I talked to an aquaintance who has chickens and...
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    Help with newborn duckling please!

    Great idea thanks, and thank you much for the help, support, and resources (people and websites) from your first reply too : )
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    Help with newborn duckling please!

    Thank you thank you!!! We have been wiping the umbilicus and will now leave it alone completely. But I guess we should check the vent tomorrow?
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    Help with newborn duckling please!

    Thanks; have wiped approx 3x in 7 hrs. so will leave it alone now and see what tomorrow brings. Did see a little black stuff come out the first time i wiped - ? Probably can't get a good picture now; once the duckling dried off the down really fluffed up around it.
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    Help with newborn duckling please!

    Thank you! I agree, timing is weird. Mama duck is still sitting on 9 other eggs with no holes or signs of action (I peeked a few hours ago while she was stretching her wings). Little guy looks a lot better than he did after his rough entry/fall.
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    Help with newborn duckling please!

    Temp is 90 degrees (heat lamp). No poop yet. Anus seemed prominent at first so husband asked at feed store and someone said maybe constipation and we should wipe it every so often - ?
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