I need a lot of help with these two ducklings.
Gia has a small gash on her beak and is traumatized from the male ducks.
Marco was on his back in the mud and his feathers are plastered to him even though we gave him a bath! Also, he won't stop preening, he is very uncomfortable.
What...
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We have Gia And marco!
both rejects. Just found marco all muddy and wet. Me and my fried cleaned him off. Gia is the girl duck i previously told you about.
Scooter died... I'm very sad... He was very important in my life and I loved him... I felt I was like the mother he needed. He was lovable and playful and only yesterday did he catch his first fire ant!
We think his body was so big because he spent more time developing that than his heart
and...
NOOOOO!!!! Scooter was curled up in his sock this morning... I got him out, but then his head started to loll and he opened and closed his beak every five seconds. He IS ALIVE THOUGH.
I imeadietly put him on his heating pad and mixed up some sugar water and laced it on the edge of his beak. His...
Honestly, I don't know what breed. I know his father's mother was a pekin. scooter's father and mother are both crested and so is scooter and the rest of his siblings...
He may be a little bit pekin/mallard/crested but again I am not sure
Hi! Thanks so much! He is running around a lot. We think he will make it (knock on wood). We play a game where I tap my fingers on the floor and he runs and chases them! So cute! Is it true that girls peep more?
We have had a break through. Scooter (the duck) has been eating! We have been feeding him the baby duck food and he loves it. I tried peas today and he is enjoying those. We had a near death experience however when he choked on a pea that was not completely mashed up. He is ok now but that was...
Hi!
So yesterday I found a baby duck outside our coop. It seemed as though his mother had kicked him out. I put him back in her nest and let them be. I came back at like eight thirty and found him lying on his back in the mud peeping. I brought him home and we attempted to make him a nest. We...