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    Very sick (dying?) Pekin with peritonitis & pneumonia -- crop full/stuck?

    My 2-year-old Pekin duck Cotton developed peritonitis, apparently from internal laying, while I was busy caring for a family medical emergency for a week. Then she stopped walking so I took her to the vet yesterday where they told me she also had a lung infection. She was also pretty underweight...
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    Ducks Cant decide.

    Female ducks are not quiet! Especially when they start their alarm quack. : )
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    Is an all female flock ok?

    My small flock is all girls and they do indeed "mate" with each other as soon as I fill up their swimming pool.
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    They ate a mouse!

    My ducks have ripped toads apart. Especially when one catches a toad and the others want a piece. I do my best to keep the toads away.
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    Silver Appleyard Ducks Can Fly? How High , Far, Long ?

    My 2 SAs can hop-fly about 6-8 feet at a time, never higher than about 3 feet though. They are BIG ducks.
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    Duck housing ideas needed!

    The Eglu Cube is expensive (and have gotten a lot worse since I bought mine a couple of years ago, just looked at the prices--yikes) but mine has worked great for my 5 (as of today just four, alas) ducks. It is very well made, sturdy, and pretty easy to clean -- I think it will last a very long...
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    Killed by hawk

    😭😢😭 One of my little flock of 5 (Brownie, a Khaki Campbell) was killed by a hawk today right next to my house and right outside their pen. A HUGE new hawk in the neighborhood who arrived a few days ago. I am heartbroken and so sad I did not watch them more closely. I did get to her before she...
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    Probably peritonitis in a khaki campbell : (

    I'm pretty bummed out -- one of my 2 Khaki Campbells probably has peritonitis (vet visit today) -- she has been laying soft shelled eggs for months, with calcium supplements not helping more than a day or two. In the past few days has seemed visibly uncomfortable like she couldn't get her wings...
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    Duck laying soft shelled eggs

    Are you using the 23% calcium gluconate? I'm having the same problem with my Khaki Campbells.
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    Baby Appleyard smaller than others, peeping constantly, won't really eat, vent might be distended?

    Too late, the little Appleyard just died. 😥 I just went to check and she was lying on her side not looking good at all. I picked her up and used a wet q-tip and then a moistened cotton ball to try to remove the stuff blocking her vent but I think all I did was hurt her : (. She died a few...
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    Hello from Madison WI

    Thank you! I already have a post in the duck forum -- one of the Appleyards is not doing well : (. Won't eat, the others are already almost twice as big and I only brought them home yesterday. I just did manage to get a tiny bit of very watered down smushed up duck food & electrolytes in her --...
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    Baby Appleyard smaller than others, peeping constantly, won't really eat, vent might be distended?

    Oh also the affected duckling keeps reaching under to rub/groom her lower abdomen. It really does seem like she's trying to rub or change something there.
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    Hello from Madison WI

    Hi all, I grew up with ducks, chickens, geese, sheep, goats...everything on my parents' hobby farm in rural WI. We ate duck eggs & cooked with them when I was a kid and I still remember how great they were especially for baking. Decades later I am back in WI and just got my first backyard...
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    Baby Appleyard smaller than others, peeping constantly, won't really eat, vent might be distended?

    I should add that they are all getting chick/duckling electrolytes in their water and they are eating unmedicated chick feed. I chopped up some dandelions, clover & kale for their swim water and they seemed to love it.
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    Baby Appleyard smaller than others, peeping constantly, won't really eat, vent might be distended?

    Hi -- I just brought home 3 1-day-old Appleyards and 3 runners. They're about 3 days old now. One baby Appleyard won't stop peeping, doesn't really eat, and is already only 2/3 the size of the others. She'll peck at greens when I let them swim a little, and looked like she was eating food we put...
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