Recent content by Salixx

Thank you! I love them and their personality is so different from the ducklings. Certainly more attitude! I completely neglected to mention in my first post that they are Africans. Doh!

Hopefully these guys are old enough to sex. I ordered them sexed as females from Metzer but I suspect one is a gander. The one I suspect is a gander is significantly larger than the other and it’s bill looks more robust. Probably not important, but it also has angel wing in both wings. They are...

I only have one other feed store and they have less things than TSC. Fortunately I was able to get some of the Durvet High Level Vitamin B Complex. I put 0.5ml of it on a small amount of moistened feed and she ate it up pretty well. I’m splitting the 1 ml recommendation up morning and night so...

I’m going to see if someone can pick up the B complex today. The nearest TSC to my work is 45 min and the one near my home doesn’t seem to have any in stock. There’s a Walgreens right by work though so I’ll pop in there to see if they have a niacin supplement. If nothing else, I’ll have to make...

Do you put it in their water or give directly? I work a long way from home tomorrow but may be able to get someone to grab and it put it in her water.

She has been feed the all flock since day one - something I’ve fed all my baby ducks. I don’t remember the niacin content off the top of my head but it is above the recommended. She has been in a Rubbermaid brooder until today with a younger KC up until today when everyone was getting too...

Title title says most of it. I noticed she was “off” about a week/week and a half ago. Her walk is more of a march with her tail down, she looks on the thin side to me and hasn’t seemed to develop proper oil glands that her sisters have. I feed Nutrena all flock and started adding nutritional...

I just checked my sick girl again and she definitely ate some food on her own this time. I sure hope this means she’s headed towards recovery!

I thought I would do a little update. The four older ducklings remained subdue through yesterday but this morning they were much less so - very talkative and splashing around in their water pail. I don’t think they are sick. I am relieved that it doesn’t appear to have been a disease but sad...

When I was training my ducks to go to bed at night I put a light in their house. I do this too when I want the chickens to coop when their taking too long at dusk They all seem to prefer seeing better and go to the light. It may or may not be too late but I also kept them in their house for a...

Just wanted to share him or her. It’s currently 10 weeks old and I have no idea what sex it is but it is my prettiest chicken! I am pretty sure that dad is one of my silkies and mom was a GLW but it’s possible mom was a Silkie and dad was a GLW.

He fortunately leaves the chickens alone and has been housed with them since January. It was something I was worried about when I had to move the ducks in with the chickens over the winter when our stream unexpectedly flooded then froze… I had to cut the ducks out of their house and had no way...

That is what I was/am concerned with my poor KC girl- that she might be suffering from complications from her injuries. She’s still hanging in and drinking better but not eating yet. The blue Swedish that died was not with me yet during the dog attack, I got her afterwards. Of course it’s...

First, the duckling appeared fine the night before last when I herded them all into the coop. I was rushing to work yesterday morning so if something was going wrong I wasn’t there to observe, just opened the door and left. I found her dead in the run last night when I went to put them to bed. I...

Guess my older chickens are jerks. I separate because they always go for whatever “new” thing is provided and drain the water and feed before going back to their normal feeder and watered. Like I said though, whatever the person is comfortable with.