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Help!
One of my mallards got a flight feather stalk yanked, and it bled a lot. The stalk kind of hangs off the wing at a weird angle, and when he flaps his wings he'll only move that one a little then pull it back in. What should I do? I put styptic in and around it when I first saw it and it stopped... -
Bullied duck not doing well?
Also a question if anyone wants to answer here. Is there a minimum number of eggs you can leave with a female that she'll hatch? I can't have a whole nestful of ducklings running around, but I'd like to let them keep two or three. Of course, then there's having to keep them safe from the... -
Bullied duck not doing well?
Bit of an update. Getting some mixed results. Igor seems happier and cleaner, though his feet are still messed up. Since dividing off the mallards from the domestics, any time they're let out together there's fighting. Tofu will go after Munchkin and rip feathers out, and chase him away from... -
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Bullied duck not doing well?
I don't have anywhere I could put them inside, most rooms are carpet and my dad would throw a fit if I tried I'm pretty sure. He gets huffy that I bring Igor in for baths as it is. I did divide up the shed just now and penned the mallards close to the heater. I rearranged things so it isn't... -
winter duck care
Wow, now I feel incredibly silly. I've been paranoid about my ducks all winter, and they've been spending most of the cold days in a heated shed with straw bedding. Their water got a little slushy a few times when it got seriously cold out, and I flipped out and fiddled with the setup until that... -
Bullied duck not doing well?
There's nothing they walk on besides snow, grass if it thaws enough, or the straw. I keep the straw as clean as I can (ducks... it gets wet and dirty and yeah). The shed is heated so the water never freezes, and the bottom of the pool is plain smooth plastic. The only thing with penning them... -
Bullied duck not doing well?
One of my six, Igor, is the smallest and has a limp from turned in legs. He gets bullied a lot by one of my rouen drakes, and now has what looks like really cracked and split spots on the heels of his feet. I've been giving him baths inside now and then and been putting neosporin on his feet... -
Update and new problems.
To update, Tofu's foot is healing up pretty well with just a little extra attention and he's more accepted into the group. He still gets picked on if he gets in the pool with the other boys, but it's better than it was. -
Update and new problems.
It has a swing-up lid that latches down, generously stapled chicken wire that I cant even pull off without finding the end and wrestling with it, and sits on cement patio blocks so nothing can dig underneath. I usually leave them in the pen at night with the hutch open if they want to go in it... -
Update and new problems.
Thanks for the reply! Yep I'm in the northern hemisphere, and the migration should be before too long. I could probably work out the drake pen since we should be fencing off half the yard for the ducks soon. (They've taken over and seem to like the patio best, which has not been met with... -
Update and new problems.
Hey all, I posted earlier about a duckling with a niacin deficiency. He's doing ok, but seems to have a permanent limp. He gets around fairly well, and has been accepted by my trio as part of the group. He's starting to get in his gray man-feathers. I seem to have a talent for acquiring more...