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    Older peacock, both leg joints swollen and soft.

    Welp he died
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    Older peacock, both leg joints swollen and soft.

    I’m robbing someone else’s picture because I have both his legs bandaged up and used an antibiotic ointment called mupiricon. No breakage on skin/scales. He was limping on one leg for a while so I isolated him and fed him full of good food, some vitamins, ACV, and added green/blue mold from...
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    Ducks eat garlic? Mine apparently do! They used to turn their beaks up to it.

    Penicillin! I do this and ACV maybe once a month to make sure they stay healthy. Most are 2-3 years old and not ever had a health problem. Only thing that gets them is sometimes a stray dog will jump the fence :(
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    Ducks eat garlic? Mine apparently do! They used to turn their beaks up to it.

    You should see them when they (Muscovys) fly! They don’t like flying much but do when they are startled or hear the food coming!
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    Ducks eat garlic? Mine apparently do! They used to turn their beaks up to it.

    I use ACV in the water and the green mold off oranges. They’ve been doing well, some are 15 to 18 pounds! Spoiled babies they are :)
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    Ducks eat garlic? Mine apparently do! They used to turn their beaks up to it.

    Thanks for mentioning that. I’ll have to separate onions but garlic is generally safe and good for them from what I read. But not so much in high dosage. Sounds like more of a belly ache for them. I love my ducks, they are my pets. Good thing I mentioned that and you caught it. Onions are...
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    Ducks eat garlic? Mine apparently do! They used to turn their beaks up to it.

    I've got a waste bin in the kitchen. A lot of times it is full of garlic, onions peels & pieces, tomatoes, cabbage, peppers, etc... They eat up the tomatoes and cabbage, and peppers every time. I had planted some garlic and it disappeared. Last night I dumped the waste bin into their pen and...
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    Dogs are killing my ducks and chickens. How do I safely repel them? Ultra sonic?

    It wasn’t my mailbox, no mailbox was ever smashed, my point was something like that might happen if you go about things the wrong way. But this is becoming a long thread, things go out of context quickly and I’m having to repeat myself. Beginning to go off the rails and become no longer relevant.
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    Dogs are killing my ducks and chickens. How do I safely repel them? Ultra sonic?

    I was curious about a figure - not that I’d go that route. It’s a weird and sometimes hostile world, my view has always been to keep a low profile and try to work out problems before getting someone else involved. One might come home and see their mailbox smashed up or something like that. Then...
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    Dogs are killing my ducks and chickens. How do I safely repel them? Ultra sonic?

    They are locked up. Both chickens and ducks at night. During the day I do let them out, they can’t wait for me to open up the gates each morning. I want them to be happy but not attacked, at least not while they are roaming on my private property
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    Dogs are killing my ducks and chickens. How do I safely repel them? Ultra sonic?

    It was such a traumatic experience I considered not raising ducks and chickens.
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    Dogs are killing my ducks and chickens. How do I safely repel them? Ultra sonic?

    Yeah. Can you add love, emotional distress? It does add up. Be it $45 or $450, a renter in the house offered me what he could and apologized and said he’d talk to his roommate, the dog owner. I did appreciate that. Which also calmed me down. I came home and the yard was quiet. Nothing...
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    Dogs are killing my ducks and chickens. How do I safely repel them? Ultra sonic?

    Indeed, but what happens when you reverse over them? Some of them will cause a Costco run for new tires!
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    Dogs are killing my ducks and chickens. How do I safely repel them? Ultra sonic?

    I do have cameras. Was considering posting a sign so that others are aware. My property, my space, also my problem to a degree.
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    Dogs are killing my ducks and chickens. How do I safely repel them? Ultra sonic?

    David made a good point which I can’t deny. I thought about dogs, though breed does some into play, but who is to say they won’t wander off and kill someone else’s animals? A talk with the neighbor doesn’t cost or change my setup. There’s also upkeep and the chance they go outside my property...
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