Help, my four month old is eating his own feathers. He has always eaten his feathers all his life, but now he is getting ready to molt and he's losing a lot of feathers, therefore he is eating A LOT of feathers!! He doesn't pull them out, but if they fall out or if they happen to come out while...
I have a drake mallard, I hatched him and hand raised him, VERY hands on. He cuddles, sleeps on my lap, lives inside the house, and so on. As he got older he did act out toward me with snapping and pecking at me, and not wanting me to pet him. He still wants to climb in my lap and still follows...
This might help you. I ended up with a single drake by accident and have been looking into getting him a companion, but in the meantime he's living inside the house with us. I hatched him and have raised him by hand. He is almost 4 months old. As a duckling he was extremely affectionate and...
Haha, yes, he certainly looks like a "she"!! But he has green sheen all over his head stripe and he's getting green around his eyes and mouth.. so I'm assuming that means a boy?? He is 14 weeks old and one day :) and his voice has changed to a hoarse sort of sound, and he no longer quacks at...
We've had our first catastrophe!! Needing some advice. This morning I woke up to drops of blood all over the inside of the coop. I pulled him out and checked him all over, and I found that his left foot had a claw that was ripped off or somehow gone, and was bloody. I am freaking out about...
He is doing great! Flying through the house! I could never get him to take his diaper. Everytime we tried to put it on him he would have a fit. I still try sometimes. It would make things a lot easier!