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    Advice about long-term care for a mostly lame drake

    Early on we gave him extra niacin and charcoal. I tried lots of dietary things. After the first month or two he improved enough to be able to stand again, but he has never really gotten much better. His improvement mostly seemed incidental, not connected to any one thing. Hard to know for sure...
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    Advice about long-term care for a mostly lame drake

    Depending on availability he eats Purina duck pellets, Nutrena duck pellets, or All Flock pellets. Additionally we occasionally supplement his water with a vitamin powder. And he gets fresh fruits and vegetables pretty often. My daughter named the ducks.... she later decided names like Jade...
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    A frame coop for my ducks, good idea or not?

    I posted this last night: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/duck-ark.1497266/ It's a mobile a-frame duck ark/coop with ventilation holes on the side, and a slot all the way across the top until the roof-bar for ventilation. It has a lockable hinged door that serves as a ramp. It also has...
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    Duck Ark

    We brought some ducks home over a year ago, and we've been having fun raising and caring for them. Since we brought them home we've built a Duck coop based on an old European design as well as converting a large unused soccer goal into a pen. It wasn't easy finding good housing for ducks (that...
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    Advice about long-term care for a mostly lame drake

    Hey there folks. Sorry in advance for the long post. Background: We have several ducks here... we've had ducks now for about a year and a half, and it's been fun, but we've also had some setbacks and we've learned a lot. We currently have 4 ducks. In the past we had 2 additional ducks, one was...
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    New Member from Missouri

    (1) Are you new to ducks/ when did you first get ducks? We brought home some baby ducks about a year and a half ago. So, my family is new to ducks, but we've had some time to deal with a few things (2) How many ducks do you have right now? 4 (3) What breeds do you have? We have 3 Pekins...
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