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    Afraid of water

    Just stick with it and kind of push them to the water. If they get out and leave thats fine too, but just keep at it every day for as long as it takes..
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    Missing feathers, lice or mites?

    Thanks!
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    Missing feathers, lice or mites?

    I haven't noticed anything with the ducks. That doesn't mean it isn't happening, but I haven't seen anything. The ducks and chickens are out all day long and all go into the coop at night. Everyone free ranges and the ducks go down to the creek and the chickens go out to the pasture/in the...
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    Missing feathers, lice or mites?

    We recently added some new ducks to our flock. They share the coop with the chickens at night (although the chickens stay up on the roosting areas and the ducks stay down below). I have noticed that some of the chickens are starting to lose feathers on their backs and have some bare patches...
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    Another Duck Breed ID Question

    As a follow up to this thread, we have been spending a lot of time with the birds lately as we have some new chicks and ducklings. During our recently swapping of males and females, we traded two males (definitely male with curly tail feathers) for two female Pekins. One of the Pekins is...
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    Is my duck okay what is s/he doing?!?!

    I am not a duck expert but as long as the duckling is acting like the others and has energy, it's been my experience that it will be OK. It's when it gets lethargic is when you know something is wrong. It sounds like you have plenty of space for it to regulate it's temp ok.
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    Ducks seem skittish....new here!

    Ducks are prey animals so its a natural instinct for them to not want to be around you since they don't move that great on land. When you see the videos of the ducks following people around everywhere, its usually because they were raised as a single duck since they are social animals and...
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    Afraid of water

    Our ducks were hesitant about going into the pond and creek at first. I am not a duck whisperer by any means, but I do know that all of the ducks we have had really have a strong bond with the coop they go into at night. It took about 3 days of us walking behind them to steer them toward the...
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    Another Duck Breed ID Question

    I don't know why the photos didn't attach from my phone.
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    Another Duck Breed ID Question

    We have started to adjust our flock of ducks so that we have a good male to female ratio as in the past we became male heavy and they were abusing our female and unfortunately another male. We have a pure mallard female who landed at our farm and decided to stay, a male Pekin, and two female...
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