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Our vet recommends Mazuri Waterfowl Maintenance

My husband took her to the vet. he said she is not emaciated but very anemic. We got he food he recommends although he thinks this is an issue related o the eggsac before she was born. He is mostly a vet for pet birds and not poultry so he discourages bulking up with extra protein and things...

Thanks for all the replies so far. I checked on the food and we already transitioned them from the chick starter to grown-up food (with less protein) - I believe it already has grit but will double check. She seems to be eating and drinking ok now that she's separated. None of the other...

we will add niacin and continue making sure she has food and water.

her quack is much louder now than it was when we first noticed she was laying down and not walking with others. and she seems stronger.

i have grit but we had not given it them yet. we read to not give it to them right away and have been so busy i have not looked to see if it is time for grit.

thank you

she has had access to water. it is possible when with the other ducks she was restricted from getting to her food and water. we have made sure they have all had water to dunk heads in.

she has food and water it can reach right now and was eating last time i saw her. i have brewers yeast. i thought the food we where giving them was ok without it. we gave them supplements in water. they have spent time outside. i am worried the time outside could have been when she got hurt...

the brooder it was in with other ducks is a stock tank with rice hulls. it has been fed un-medicated chick feed. they had rags over the bedding when younger so they would not eat it.

I have a sick duckling, approximately 6 weeks old, that has been laying down and having trouble walking. It keeps its feet folded and has what appears to be a bruise on its beak, and I noticed that it has a sore on the underside. I noticed this last night, and since then I have separated it...

I came here looking for the same sort of information but specifically for ducklings. I can find plenty f recipes in books for feeding adult ducks The Resilient Gardener has the information that feels the most comfortable to me. we had to take a duckling to the vet today thinking he had foot...

will they be protected from drafts?

I don't have any quails but I see no one has responded yet so here is my response :) in my copy of Story's Guide to Poultry it says that it is very easy to build a coop for them but I don't think it goes into much detail. It does say that for people who are unable to build a coop they can...

I realize this is an old thread and also I don't have ducks or chickens and am just researching. I recently read about someone who found a way to make deep litter work with ducks though so I thought I would share the link here. It only works if you also have chickens...