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  1. mommyofthree

    Help! Duckling with terribly deformed beak dumped in my yard!! *PICS*

    Quote: That would be a great name but it's already taken, we rescued a stray cat and named her Lucky.
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    Help! Duckling with terribly deformed beak dumped in my yard!! *PICS*

    I love all of the names!! We might wait and see if it's a boy or girl before we decide on anything. Thanks sooooo much to everyone who has posted!! When I found this little guy this morning my heart sank and my first thought was that there's no way he could live like this. But after posting on...
  3. mommyofthree

    Help! Duckling with terribly deformed beak dumped in my yard!! *PICS*

    Quote: Miracle was the first name I thought of but my kids don't like it, lol. I love Hope!!
  4. mommyofthree

    Help! Duckling with terribly deformed beak dumped in my yard!! *PICS*

    BigDaddy'sGurl : Quote: My vote is Howard. lol, Howard?? I am hoping it's a girl but it's too soon to tell. Maybe I should start a new "name my duck" thread. My 6 year old thinks we should name it Angel since it is a miracle it's still alive.
  5. mommyofthree

    Help! Duckling with terribly deformed beak dumped in my yard!! *PICS*

    Quote: I've been looking at it closely and can tell that it has been like this for awhile so I am assuming it is a birth defect. There are no signs of it being a new injury. I do think this duck ended up here for a reason. It had not eaten anything or tried to drink since I put it in the new...
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    Help! Duckling with terribly deformed beak dumped in my yard!! *PICS*

    *****ANOTHER QUESTION***** The tongue looks really dry and obviously it can't close it's beak to keep the tongue moist. Is it going to be okay if the tongue is dried out, will that cause other problems?? I feel so bad for this little guy.
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    Help! Duckling with terribly deformed beak dumped in my yard!! *PICS*

    Quote: Wow. Get some locks for your gate! If you don't have gates - get some!!! That 'friend' just exposed your whole flock to... who KNOWS what!!! If you're still speaking to them explain new additions must be quarantined. I can't say anything about the poor duckling except it's HUGE...
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    Help! Duckling with terribly deformed beak dumped in my yard!! *PICS*

    Quote: I don't think it will grow back. There's a mallard at a local pond that is missing about 1/3 of his top beak and it has been like that for a couple of years. I used to think that was bad....
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    Help! Duckling with terribly deformed beak dumped in my yard!! *PICS*

    I am soooo mad that it was just dumped in my yard, people can be so stupid!! I would have gladly taken it if I had been asked, we have a nice big empty pen that it's in now where I would have put it right away, away from my other birds. I put out a nice deep bowl of food and water so we will...
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    Help! Duckling with terribly deformed beak dumped in my yard!! *PICS*

    A friend of a relative of mine got a huge load of hay yesterday and apparently there was a duckling in it. So he had our relative take it who then just brought it to my house and put it with the rest of our ducks without asking or telling us, UGH!! My hubby saw him pulling out of our yard and...
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    Is it possible for a goose to lay this late in year??

    Yay, so glad to hear they could be goose eggs!! Our male died over the weekend (when we were gone and the person taking care of them did not lock them in the coop one night ) so I am hoping and praying that these babies hatch, I only got 2 goose eggs and put them in the incubator last night...
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    Processing ducks different from chickens?

    We've processed lots of ducks lately and they are almost impossible to pluck, a couple of our indian runners plucked really well but the other breeds we tried were so hard!! We gave up plucking and just started skinning them, it's really easy and a lot less hassle. Chickens are sooo much easier...
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    Is it possible for a goose to lay this late in year??

    We got some Exhibition Dewlap Toulouse a few weeks ago, the pair is about 8 years old. Yesterday I got what I thought was just a jumbo duck egg in the coop. Today there was another really big egg, and when I took it the female goose started hissing and was chasing me. Is it possible for them to...
  14. mommyofthree

    Development of Dewlap Toulouse Goslings

    Those are some beautiful geese!! I just got a pair of gray Dewlap Toulouse locally, they are about 8 years old. They are exhibition quality and look like yours. Apparently Holderreads really wanted to buy this pair when the lady decided to sell, but she wanted them to go to a real home so they...
  15. mommyofthree

    Feeling AWFUL!!! What did I do to my chicken?? :(

    Quote: I can't bring her in the house but we have a 12x4 coop that is empty, I could keep her in there for awhile. Our chickens and ducks were all in there until a couple of weeks ago when we made them a really big coop, so it's not a new place and maybe she can recuperate and feel comfortable...
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    Feeling AWFUL!!! What did I do to my chicken?? :(

    Thanks, yes I think we will be clipping their wings. I told my husband that after that I was not going to try to catch them again if they jump the fence. At least they are staying out of the neighbor's yard now when the majority of the flack is in the back yard. I just really hope her eye is...
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    Feeling AWFUL!!! What did I do to my chicken?? :(

    So we put up a nice fence for our free range chickens (who wouldn't stay out of the neighbor's yard) and they now have 2 acres to free range. Well obviously that is not enough (or they just want to be closer to us) because some of them jump over the fence and come up by the house. Today I was...
  18. mommyofthree

    Got our first geese today, pics of my new babies!! :)

    We just got 9 Dewlap Toulouse geese!! Two of them are females that are about 2 years old, the rest are supposedly about 3-4 months old. Someone I know that I raise ducks for for meat, asked me to raise geese for him for meat also. How could I say no to getting more birds?? He would like us to...
  19. mommyofthree

    What age can Dewlap Toulouse breed??

    Thanks, I guess if we want goslings in the Spring we should look for an older male!! We just got the geese today, they are beautiful!! And they are so mellow, I am in love.
  20. mommyofthree

    What age can Dewlap Toulouse breed??

    I am getting 2 female Dewlap Toulouse this weekend, along with 7 goslings that are about 3-4 months old. We are thinking of keeping a male gosling for breeding purposes, would that be okay if one of the females is his mother?? There's a chance they might not be related since the place they are...
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