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    Is it botulism?

    Well, to my knowledge she only had that one spell last night. She ate some of the baked eggshells again this morning when I let her out. Interestingly, she didn't lay an egg this morning. I sure hope this is passed. It's nerve raking wondering if I'm not going to keep a close enough eye on...
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    Is it botulism?

    Well, she has had one spell already tonight. Repeated the routine, bath, held her head up until she could hold it up herself, tomato, and tonight I tried feeding baked, crushed egg shells too. She gobbled them down like she hadn't eaten in a week. Guess we shall see what the rest of the night...
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    Is it botulism?

    They do have crushed coral/oyster shell free feed. I really only ever see one of them eating it though.. I don't give greens regularly simply because I don't have them but they got some tomatoes every day while I had tomatoes in the garden and then I bought tomatoes and sparingly gave some to...
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    Is it botulism?

    She is a 1 year old Khaki Campbell. My other 2 are the same breed but a year older. They have eaten Dumor brand layer pellets from Tractor Supply forever and they get a small handful of scratch grain and a quarter cup (?) of those dried meal worms you can buy as a treat everyday. She is not...
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    Is it botulism?

    Hello. I have a duck that shows signs of botulism poisoning. I have 3 ducks and she is the only one with symptoms. She has spells where she can't hold her head up and I found her two days ago literally laying on her head with her head and neck folded under her body. She has had three of...
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    duck eggs

    Love my Khaki Campbells and they will crank out the eggs all year round. The eggs are like the size of an extra large size chicken eggs. I thought they were suppose to be quiet ducks also and I guess that's all relative. They are very noisy at the crack of dawn when they want me to get up and...
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    Duck Eggs

    Khaki Campbells are known to lay 300+ eggs a year. Their eggs are about the size of an extra large chicken egg. I have 3 Khaki Campbells and they started laying when they were about 5 months old. They rarely miss a day laying eggs now for almost 17 months straight with the only exception...
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    hawk attack - one duck with some mild injuries

    Cottage cheese? If you can get to a feed store or a pet store, they sell freeze dried worms. I'm sure she will gobble those up. Very high in protein. I lost a duck to a hawk. It took at least a month for my remaining ducks to get over it and stop huddling in the bushes. It is very...
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    vultures

    I had a hawk kill one of my ducks a couple months ago. Sad, very sad. At Walmart you can buy this shiny reflective silver tape that is used to string in fruit trees to keep birds away. We strung several pieces of it from one thing to another. The wind blows it and it moves the tape around...
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    Duck desert!!!

    My ducks love cut up tomatoes, especially when it's hot and I've had the tomato in the frig. They like lettuce too but not if there's any tomatoes around. They like an overripe cucumber that's hot from the sun so you can step on it and open it up for them to pick out the inside. Oddly, my...
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    cleaning the duck pond

    terreilacy, Can you give us more details about the pond pump you use? Brand, size, type, photo, etc? We have wasted a lot of money trying to come up with pumps and/or filters that works and so far, nothing has worked except dumping it everyday...
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    Soft egg??

    Chicken Obsessed, that was a good explanation. I have one duck that has done this off and on all her laying life, just over a year. On the day following a soft shelled egg, she won't lay at all. We call them water balloons.
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    Khaki Campbell duck not laying

    They are 18 months old and have been laying for a year this past Memorial Day. I haven't ever force molted them. When they stopped laying a few months ago, they were a little shaggy so I thought they were going into a natural molt. But I can't say that I think they really molted. Their...
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    Khaki Campbell duck not laying

    I had 3 Khaki Campbell ducks. About 6 months ago, their egg production significantly dropped off. They had been laying for about 9 months at the time. Instead of 3 eggs a day, they dropped to 1 or 2 every day. One of them continued laying just about every day. I thought I knew which one...
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    How do you keep your duck house clean?

    I tried pine straw and it just wasn't absorbent. The non-pine straw is much more absorbent.
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    Ducks and Chickens Together?

    One of those drakes should be baked, broiled, or fried.
  17. sherrybintally

    wire floor with deep litter?

    For the true deep litter method, you wouldn't use a wire bottom. I sprinkle any poo spots with some powdered stuff called Sweet PDZ that you can buy for horse staffs and add more bedding on top. I use pine shavings in the house where I shut them up at night...no water at night. I use straw...
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    How do you keep your duck house clean?

    Pelleted horse bedding? I would be afraid the ducks would eat it! I've never actually seen it though...I'll check it out. I use the deep pile method. Much too much work any other way and it makes for better compost when I do clean it out completely (3-4 times a year). I do shut them up in...
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    Drakes and hawk alerts-are they like roosters?

    Yes, my ducks can spot planes! I used to think it was cute how they cocked their heads to see birds in the air until a hawk got one of mine.
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    Duck Pen modifications. (pics)

    Very nice building! I wouldn't dream of using electric fencing for ducks. I can't imagine the voltage being low enough not to severely hurt them.
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