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Duck with broken/injured leg
Hi. One of my young female ducks has hurt her leg. Is there a step by step guide of how to splint or treat it? Her family group are very protective of her and I struggle to get them to leave the house in the morning. I have been keeping her in there to give her time to recuperate. The other...- Camsmum
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Chicken has discharge dripping from back end
Just went to shut my birds away. I have only one chicken and lots of ducks. The chicken, Ben, us always very perky and active, but happily goes away in the evening. She was acting fine earlier today and we had an egg from her this morning. Anyway I noticed she was hiding under a hedge while I...- Camsmum
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Do I keep eggs in incubator or give up?
Some photos. I hope I didn't kill them when I accidentally overheated them the other day 😢 Thank you everyone for looking. -
Do I keep eggs in incubator or give up?
I am really stressed. I think my eggs may have got too hot a few days ago while I waited for an incubator. Now I am torn between throwing out the eggs and worrying that they would have survived, or continuing with incubation and risking them being bad and exploding 😳😳. I can see some veins but... -
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Hello from England
Hello. I am in Cambridgeshire. We have 5 children, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 fish, 1 chicken and 23 ducks from less than a week old up to 2 years. I have found this site really helpful. Welcome. 😁- Camsmum
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Incubation question.
I have never incubated eggs before, my ducks have always hatched them themselves. I have 5 call duck eggs that mum lost interest in after two weeks due to her deciding to follow another ducks newly hatched ducklings about. I candled them and they all looked viable. I tried keeping them warm... -
Discoloration on shells. Help!
What are all these dark bits?- Camsmum
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Discoloration on shells. Help!
I can't get the link to load 🤷- Camsmum
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Discoloration on shells. Help!
Thank you. Will have a look.- Camsmum
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Discoloration on shells. Help!
I have never incubated eggs before, my ducks have always hatched them themselves. I have 5 call duck eggs that mum lost interest in after two weeks due to her deciding to follow another ducks newly hatched ducklings about. I candled them and they all looked viable. I tried keeping them warm...- Camsmum
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Unsteady Ducklings
Thank you everyone. I have ordered some Brewers yeast that should come tomorrow. 😁 -
Unsteady Ducklings
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Unsteady Ducklings
Feeding them the same crumb I have fed all the others on. Have two other lots of ducklings and all are fine. I didn't notice any issues until two days before mum completely left them. Will try and do the video thing. Thanks, I didn't know that 😁 -
Unsteady Ducklings
I have some 2 week old ducklings, appleyards I think. There are 6 of them but 2 of them were getting left behind by mum and siblings until she finally gave up on them. We have had them inside now for a few days with a brooder to keep warm. At first I thought they had injured their legs, but now... -
Call Duck leaving eggs
Yes, she had been happily coming off, swimming, eating and having a bit of a wander then back on the eggs. However as soon as these other ducklings have hatched she has changed. Even with her in a completely different part of garden she quacks loudly and seeks the ducklings out. Going to try and... -
Call Duck leaving eggs
Hi. I messaged a month or so ago about my little call duck leaving her eggs. We were unable to save them as they had already gone. However she lay another 5 and sat on them. I candled them and they were developing well. She has been sat on them for two weeks. Now another such has hatched some... -
Can I move clutch of eggs before she sits
Well that didn't work as the little Call Duck who was unsuccessful on her own eggs tried to claim them and sat on them. 😳 I put them back and now mum has sat on them and only come off to eat, drink and splash briefly this afternoon. So she is up on the nest area. I will have to trust her to keep... -
Help. Call duck left her egg
Yes repeatedly. Nothing changed. No sign of red veins, and everyone here felt it had stopped development. Plus I know mum was rubbish at staying in it. The number of times it had come out from under her and was cold was ridiculous. 😔