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    Silver Appleyard duckling has a lump on his face and missing feathers

    A couple of updates. Someone earlier was curious what our setup was and I described it, but I took a picture too so you all could see and let me know what you thought. Its hard to see in the picture, but theres about a 2 inch gap between the doors and the roof and theres two smaller gaps in the...
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    Silver Appleyard duckling has a lump on his face and missing feathers

    We don't generally keep antibiotics on hand just because we usually don't have a need for them. Vet is definitely an option, and we are currently working on coming up with a solution. Baytril/Tylan both sound like reasonable options to me. I called the vet (I'm at work currently, but I'm about...
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    Silver Appleyard duckling has a lump on his face and missing feathers

    Also, thank you all for all of your help! This was my first post here and the feedback/support from you all was overwhelming to be honest :D
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    Silver Appleyard duckling has a lump on his face and missing feathers

    So, what's a reasonable temperature to keep ducklings at then? Was the info I got from the web pretty sound? Around 80 minus 5 per week old they are?
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    Silver Appleyard duckling has a lump on his face and missing feathers

    We have an old storage shed (5x6) we are using to keep them in at night, and a hardware cloth fence about 9x9 around it for them to roam in right now. As they get bigger and we start our garden, we will be expanding that quite a bit. They definitely seem to be bunched up together, I just assumed...
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    Silver Appleyard duckling has a lump on his face and missing feathers

    We currently live in Crossville, TN. I'm not sure what defines to hot/to cold, a couple metrics I read online mentioned they can handle -1 degree per day or - 5 degrees per week old they are below 80 degrees. So, at about 4 weeks old now, they should be fine in weather above 60 degrees right?
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    Silver Appleyard duckling has a lump on his face and missing feathers

    Yea, we definitely don't keep them in this box, this was only used for bringing them home from the farm. What is the ACV for?
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    Silver Appleyard duckling has a lump on his face and missing feathers

    Yea, we have a heat lamp for them that we've used intermittently. We live in TN and the temp right now is around 80, so we haven't been using it during the day. We had a brief cold spell last couple days (around 65), but we just put them in an during that time. Looking back at the pictures we...
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    Silver Appleyard duckling has a lump on his face and missing feathers

    Yea, we've only had them about 5 days now though. They didn't have deep water access the first day while we were building them a coop, but they've since had access except at night when we put them in the coop (they still have water, just not deep water).
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    Silver Appleyard duckling has a lump on his face and missing feathers

    I'm hoping we aren't to late at this point.. the wife says he's now sniffling and making a popping noise when he breathes.. :(
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    Silver Appleyard duckling has a lump on his face and missing feathers

    Yea, he has a regular water feeder plus a little makeshift pool we made them thats right at about shoulder depth. I'll check inside his mouth to see if I can see anything, yea from what I've seen online, sinus infection keeps cropping up a lot. I think a vet visit might be our best bet then, I...
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    Silver Appleyard duckling has a lump on his face and missing feathers

    Hey, me and my wife just started our adventures into raising ducks by buying four silver appleyard ducklings (all about 3 weeks old). Well, the next day after bring them home, we noticed one had some feathers that looked a little strange (we initially thought it was just water on his feathers)...
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