that makes me feel a lot better :)
I'll take him off corn, but we live on a farm so he's got plenty of access to ground and grit, so I think it'll be okay? I'll stop letting him out if you think otherwise, this is all really helpful!
It's hard to explain, but our school has an enclosed garden where a mallard mama nests, and her babies have to be manually moved each year since they can't fly out. They had already moved the family when one of the dud eggs began hatching, so I volunteered to take it because we used to raise...
I rescued a newly hatched mallard two days ago. It's been doing well, but this morning the duckling fell about 3-4 feet onto our wood floor. Since then it's been limping, and more worryingly, drinking weird. After it drinks water it will keep shaking its head or pretending to drink. It stops...
