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  1. Kamorle

    Introduction

    Thanks, we use live traps placed around the coup for the coons and have the coups made out of thick wood (personally milled) and heavy duty fencing wire fully enclosing the run attached to boards dug 2 feet into the ground. After so many years we've learned our lesson.
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    Possible skin hives from allergy to duckling down? or maybe poop?

    Nope shes allergic to nothing else we know of and eats the eggs regularly. It seems it has to be the down of the baby duck.
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    Possible skin hives from allergy to duckling down? or maybe poop?

    No this is 100% a reaction to the freshly hatched duckling and happened within a hour of holding it. It didn't poop on her or anything. She regularly handles the grown ducks and cleans the coups without a issue. But held that baby duck and boom hives like crazy.
  4. Kamorle

    Introduction

    Hi all, I live on a remote island off the west coast of Canada (Haida Gwaii) I've been around/ had chickens most of my life. My wife and I currently have 2 flocks of about 16 each chickens in 2 coops with outdoor runs and one flock of ducks about the same size in their own coup, all various...
  5. Kamorle

    Possible skin hives from allergy to duckling down? or maybe poop?

    We recently hatched a duckling and almost immediately after holding it my wife developed itchy hives, she's not allergic to anything else so it must be something to do with the duckling.
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