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    Help! My Hen is not well...

    My Sophie died yesterday and I am heartbroken that I should or could have done more to save her. I wish I had known about these remedies ahead of time. I may not get another hen because for some strange reason, I keep seeing the pain in Sophie's eyes the night before she died. Thank you guys...
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    Help! My Hen is not well...

    My Sophie, who is an 8.5 lb Pekin Duck Hen, 1.5 years old, hasn't laid an egg since November. She goes to her roost in the morning and sits in there, but nothing happens. Now she seems listless and doesn't want to talk. She usually cackles if you talk to her. She eats ok, but not with the...
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    Egg bound hen, please help!

    My Sophie, who is an 8.5 lb Pekin Duck Hen, 1.5 years old, hasn't laid an egg since November. She goes to her roost in the morning and sits in there, but nothing happens. Now she seems listless and doesn't want to talk. She usually cackles if you talk to her. She eats ok, but not with the...
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    Vet suggestion for non-invasive bumblefoot cure

    I don't know if this will help anyone, but my Sophie has bumblefoot on one foot. I cleaned it really good and put Ich on it, wrapped with vet tape and put a pair of duck boots on her. The boots are like a dream....easy to put on and Sophie doesn't pay it much attention. If anyone is...
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    Sophie just won't lay

    Any help out there? My Sophie goes to her favorite "lay" spot every morning but she simply does not lay anymore. Her last egg was voting day in November of last year. She has laid about a half dozen shell-less eggs and one or two hard shell eggs but that is all. She also doesn't seem as...
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    Sophie just won't lay

    My Sophie (a 2 yr old Peking female) laid eggs everyday for a year. Then late fall of last year she quit. I figured it was just winter or molting. Here it is spring and she has laid about a half dozen tiny soft shelled eggs but nothing else. She weighs about 8.5 pounds and seems ok. Not as...
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    at what height should i put a drain in my kiddie pool?

    We use a kiddie pool for our Sophie too. Can someone start at the beginning of this discussion and tell me about the drain in the pool. I would love to find a better way to drain our pool than dipping out with a 5 gal bucket. I am wondering about the process. Thanks!
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    Pekin Duck Egg Dilemma

    My Pekin, Sophie, has been laying for about a year. All of a sudden she started acting too quiet and not joyful, as she usually is. After several days, she perked up but quit laying. That was around Nov 2, 2010. Since then, she has only laid that one egg...the one that was shelless, as you...
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    Pekin Duck Egg Dilemma

    Ok, so I just started to relax about the "no egg" laying with my Sophie. Then, wham, one of the oddest eggs I have seen so far!! She didn't even nest with it either. Shot that bad boy out around the food dish! This thing was close to 3" in length, with white and yoke and a LOT OF WATER. The...
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    Do ducks need crushed oyster shells like chickens?

    I have never given my duck oyster shells. I have oyster shells all around my yard. Do I need to buy some kind of feed that is crushed oyster shells or can she just keep pecking away at the shells around the house? She has suddenly stopped laying at all. She seems to be fine but she just is...
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    Anyone noticing an unusually poor November egg production?

    My duck has stopped laying also? Thought at first it must be a hidden nest but just think she's on strike. Last egg layed was on November 2.....voting day. Three days prior she layed the tiniest egg she's ever laid. Next day the longest egg I've ever seen until November 2, which beat the...
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    New from TN.

    Hi from North Carolina! My daughter called me early one morning sounding very distraught. I finally found out that she was telling me that there was a tiny duck at her front door. She lives in a large subdivision! I figure it was an Easter duck that either got loose or was turned loose by a...
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    Sluggish Hen

    My little girl seems to be feeling chipper this morning but still no egg. I do recall the last two eggs she laid were really elongated. Longest eggs I've ever seen. Anyway, we did a thorough coop cleaning, pool cleaning, dish cleaning and hope that will help. You guys are great for moral...
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    Sluggish Hen

    I have a 1 1/2 year old hen Pekin duck that was fine up until about 2 weeks ago....somewhere around November 2, 2010. She has always been feisty and happy and followed us around. For some reason she has stopped egg laying but eats just fine. She has been resting more than usual. Her poop and...
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