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    Bumble Foot???

    Pine shavings in the pen & they mostly stay in the yard but do venture into the woods occasionally.
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    Bumble Foot???

    Thanks for your advice. I started treating it on Monday with an empsom salt soak & applied a wrap with Neosporin & a drawing salve.
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    Bumble Foot???

    I noticed this on my girl's foot on Monday, I feel horrible for not noticing it sooner, is it bumble foot???? I've had to treat bumble foot in the past but nothing that looked like this. Just wanted to verify it's bumble foot & not something else.
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    Egg bound duck????

    As per the advice I received yesterday I let Fluff out this morning to free range & swim with the other females, this is what she looked like after getting out of the pond. Wet feather???? She is moving around but I can still feel something on the lower right side of her stomach. After seeing a...
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    Egg bound duck????

    She is only separated from the others during the day at night they are all together. But I don't want her out during the day swimming in the pond with her having wet feather.
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    Egg bound duck????

    Yes, she's been acting normal wanting to be out with the other ducks but I have her isolated in the pen, I put a bowl of crushed oyster shells by their food dish so, they have access to it daily.
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    Egg bound duck????

    Does being egg bound cause wet feather???? I have a 6yr old Rouen female, she hasn't been laying alot, the last egg she laid was about a week ago & it was a soft shelled tiny egg. I can feel something on the lower right side of her stomach, it's hard & feels like an egg. I've given her 2...
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    Angel Wings

    Without sounding stupid, which part of the wing do I clip??? I don't want to hurt her.
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    Angel Wings

    I just resuced a Muscovy & a Cayuga both are approximately 1 yr old, ( so I was told). The Muscovy has Angel Wings, can someone please give me some advice on how to help/fix them.
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    Sick Duck, Advice Needed

    Thanks, she was doing a little better when I left for work but she passed away as soon as I got home. At least I was with her when she passed 😔 😟 😥
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    Sick Duck, Advice Needed

    She passed away while I was at work 😪 😕 😢
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    Sick Duck, Advice Needed

    Advice needed, please. My 2 year old female Khaki Campbell has not been acting right for the last 5 days. It started on Friday she wasn't hurt or attacked by anything but she suddenly stopped eating, I've had her isolated from the other ducks, she's been in my sun room so I can monitor her. I've...
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    Duck with severe bumblefoot

    Advice needed...... I've been trying to treat severe bumblefoot on my duck for a couple of weeks, Epsom salt soaks, removing the scab, applying neosporin ( without pain relief ) & Prid. But her foot wasn't improving so this morning I preformed " minor surgery " & this is what I got out of her...
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    Egg Problem

    Advice needed.... Why did 1 of my females lay this kind of egg this morning??? I've noticed that a couple of eggs that I've collected over the week have been " different" the shells were hard but they looked & felt grainy, like they were rolled in sand. Now this morning I found this egg???
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    2 New Ducklings

    I'm not planning on introducing the ducklings to the other ducks until they are older, the ducklings are only 3 days old & my plan is to keep them in the tote & in the pen with Pippa for about a week then take them out of the tote so they can get to run around in the pen with her, if she starts...
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