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    Unbalanced Chick

    Hi all, thanks for the replies. Unfortunately Totoro took a turn for the worse yesterday, and this evening I made the decision to put him out of his misery. We weren’t able to try vitamins beforehand. If anybody else ends up with a similar situation to this, hopefully you have better luck than I...
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    Unbalanced Chick

    Hi BYC, long time no see! I’d like to hear some thoughts/theories about a chick I’m currently dealing with. I have consulted my avian vet and will continue to do so moving forward, I’m simply curious if anyone has experienced anything like this with their chicks before. I’m not good at keeping...
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    Air cell at wrong end?

    Forgot to update sooner, but here it is: the three mentioned eggs didn’t develop and were discarded with the other bad eggs, which might have been due to the dodgy incubator rather than the eggs themselves.
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    Air cell at wrong end?

    They’re all point-down in the auto turning rack which means the yolk is quite close to the air cell. It’s a very definitely pointy egg and the cell is quite small because of that but they all are to start with so that’s not too concerning. I’ve marked the three in question so I can keep a...
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    Air cell at wrong end?

    I can see the crack when I candle it, development-ways it seems to be no different from the others but we’re only a few days in. I can feel it if I run my nail over it, it catches slightly at one point but I don’t think it’s broken through completely. It’s the one with the air cell at the...
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    Air cell at wrong end?

    So I set a batch of eggs into the incubator and we’re four days in, and I noticed a few things this evening that I somehow missed during the initial check. One of the eggs has the air cell at the pointy end and I don’t know if that makes it bad for incubation or not. There’s also one egg that...
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    Injured Duck Not Eating

    Update: It’s been almost three weeks since the attack. She’s now eating on her own and seems fine except that she still can’t walk properly. Vet said she’s had some sort of trauma to her back which is what’s impacting her walking but she has improved, so we have another round of...
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    Injured Duck Not Eating

    It's been two days since we started antibiotics and she seems to be improving. She's using her right foot more in swimming and she started nibbling at the grain today. Hopefully she'll continue to improve over the next week. It's a bit difficult trying to crop feed her because she protests...
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    Injured Duck Not Eating

    I'm so sorry for your loss 💔
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    Injured Duck Not Eating

    Update: we've been to the vets, who said there is a possibility that the duck is septic and may have a back injury but she can't tell without xrays. We've been given antibiotics and I've been instructed on tube-feeding in hopes of her getting better. The opinion was she is definately worth...
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    Injured Duck Not Eating

    Ours is still holding on, she seems to have recovered from her shock and is still quite feisty. How is your drake? Other people can probably give you better advice but for our duck's wound, we checked all over to make sure there was nothing too bad then rinsed the injuries as best we could to...
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    Injured Duck Not Eating

    I tried making a liquidy porridge in replace of her water in hopes of convincing her to have that instead but she refused. I didn't want her to dehydrate so I ended up giving back her water, which we've been dissolving a bit of sugar and a pinch of salt in. This afternoon she finally had two...
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    Injured Duck Not Eating

    The avian vet doesn’t have appointments free until Friday, but they have offered to take her as an emergency case if we call the clinic first thing in the morning so we’re going to do that and hope it doesn’t require euthanasia 🤞
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    Injured Duck Not Eating

    Hi everyone, Three nights ago (12th September), there was an attack on our ducks with one missing, one injured and the following night, a drake was killed. The injured duck we found lying under a bush, conscious but not moving. When we inspected her she just seemed to have some broken and/or...
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    Muscovy Duckling Gender

    I'm not sure, I have never attempted a vent sex before and do not want to try as I have heard it can hurt the duckling if not done correctly
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