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    Duck with broken/injured leg

    Hi. One of my young female ducks has hurt her leg. Is there a step by step guide of how to splint or treat it? Her family group are very protective of her and I struggle to get them to leave the house in the morning. I have been keeping her in there to give her time to recuperate. The other...
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    Chicken has discharge dripping from back end

    Just went to shut my birds away. I have only one chicken and lots of ducks. The chicken, Ben, us always very perky and active, but happily goes away in the evening. She was acting fine earlier today and we had an egg from her this morning. Anyway I noticed she was hiding under a hedge while I...
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    Do I keep eggs in incubator or give up?

    Pretty much 😢
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    Do I keep eggs in incubator or give up?

    Some photos. I hope I didn't kill them when I accidentally overheated them the other day 😢 Thank you everyone for looking.
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    Do I keep eggs in incubator or give up?

    I am really stressed. I think my eggs may have got too hot a few days ago while I waited for an incubator. Now I am torn between throwing out the eggs and worrying that they would have survived, or continuing with incubation and risking them being bad and exploding 😳😳. I can see some veins but...
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    Incubation question.

    They are due to hatch on 15th.
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    Hello from England

    Hello. I am in Cambridgeshire. We have 5 children, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 fish, 1 chicken and 23 ducks from less than a week old up to 2 years. I have found this site really helpful. Welcome. 😁
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    Incubation question.

    I have never incubated eggs before, my ducks have always hatched them themselves. I have 5 call duck eggs that mum lost interest in after two weeks due to her deciding to follow another ducks newly hatched ducklings about. I candled them and they all looked viable. I tried keeping them warm...
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    Discoloration on shells. Help!

    What are all these dark bits?
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    Discoloration on shells. Help!

    I can't get the link to load 🤷
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    Discoloration on shells. Help!

    Thank you. Will have a look.
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    Discoloration on shells. Help!

    I have never incubated eggs before, my ducks have always hatched them themselves. I have 5 call duck eggs that mum lost interest in after two weeks due to her deciding to follow another ducks newly hatched ducklings about. I candled them and they all looked viable. I tried keeping them warm...
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    Unsteady Ducklings

    Thank you everyone. I have ordered some Brewers yeast that should come tomorrow. 😁
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    Unsteady Ducklings

    No never added anything. Hopefully this video link works
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    Unsteady Ducklings

    Feeding them the same crumb I have fed all the others on. Have two other lots of ducklings and all are fine. I didn't notice any issues until two days before mum completely left them. Will try and do the video thing. Thanks, I didn't know that 😁
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