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    Bump on duck's beak

    That was my first thought too but I can't figure out where she could have come into anything metal. Unless maybe it could be from knocking her beak hard on a metal water dish while she was having a splash bath in it. That seems like it would have caused a bruise though. Do beak bruises present...
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    Ended Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Yoshi is unimpressed.
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    Ended Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    My little Umberto getting bored of modeling.
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    Bump on duck's beak

    One of my ducks has this bump on her beak. She's just about six years old. It's about the diameter of a pea, same color as her beak, feels smooth like her beak, same temperature as the rest of her beak. I noticed it a few weeks ago while we were cuddling, she likes me to rub her beak while we...
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    Female duck not eating well - tube feeding questions

    Wow! A 30 sounds HUGE! Like a chest tube!! 😯 But I can definitely see how that would make feedings easier and faster. My sister was shocked that I used a 16 as a feeding tube. She's used to using tiny tubes, like 8's but she's also using them for human children 🤭 (She's an RN in a hospital so...
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    Female duck not eating well - tube feeding questions

    I think I've been using a 16 Fr recently. The 18 seems so big, and that was the largest size I could find. I've checked a few of my other ducks' throats to compare what I see in hers to others, and her quack hole just seems to take up so much more space in her throat. Which I know sounds weird...
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    Female duck not eating well - tube feeding questions

    This little quack head is like my baby. I started charting her weight every day along with what time and how much she ate back at the beginning of all this. Never guessed I would end up needing a dang notebook almost. 🤣🙄 But with any of them, I always tell them I'll do whatever I can to keep...
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    Female duck not eating well - tube feeding questions

    I wanted to come back with an update on this ridiculous duck. It's been over a year struggling to get this quack head to gain and then maintain. I still don't understand it. She was going up and down with her weight even with the tube feedings. She would gain, and then she'd "vomit" after I fed...
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    Ridiculous bantam hen hatching eggs

    That's a good point. I guess it's the winter temps issue combined with a hen brooding that is throwing me off. And dealing with chickens. I haven't had chicks in a good 4+ years. I'm used to ducks now and don't let momma ducks brood them. They seem to grow up more friendly when they're around...
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    Ridiculous bantam hen hatching eggs

    Since we weren't sure about the temperature, and didn't have any way to separate the hen and babies from other hens and roosters, they're inside currently. I think 6 of 8 eggs hatched and seem to be doing well. One wasn't really developed and the other pipped but then turned itself around and...
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    Ridiculous bantam hen hatching eggs

    That's what I was hoping. She's a small bantam though and depending on how many chicks survive, she doesn't seem big enough to cover too many of them.
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    Ridiculous bantam hen hatching eggs

    While adding fresh straw to the fowl houses yesterday in preparation for unseasonably cold weather this week, we discovered a well hidden nest. Silly little bantam hen had 8 eggs just about ready to hatch. Sure enough, 4 of them had pipped this morning. Now, when I say "unseasonably cold", I'm...
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    Membrane movement before internal pip - how long

    I can't remember the exact day you're supposed to stop turning them, that "lockdown" phase of incubating but from what I remember it seems like once they start pushing on the internal membrane turning can probably be stopped. I think turning is mostly about making sure they don't get stuck on...
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    Female duck not eating well - tube feeding questions

    She seems to be getting stronger and brattier all the time. She's still not eating as much as she should but everything else seems normal. She's shaky neck pouncing on her sisters, attacking her toys...and me, her poops look much better. I'm starting to suspect that she likes the added attention...
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    Suprelorin Implant - Cost and side effects?

    I absolutely agree. It's a rotten position to be in. I do my best researching and learning how to treat what I can. It would be nice knowing there was a good waterfowl vet around though. The vet we went to is supposed to be an amazing bird vet. But I think there's just too big of a difference...
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