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  1. ruthhope

    My duck flew into the neighbor's tree, how do i get her to come back?

    Well that is an improvement on this morning. I suspect she was in a tree nearby and has not been near food or water. Do you have a wading pool in your back garden? Could you bring it to your front garden where she can see it? And leave food near the wading pool? Maybe its 4 days in ducks the...
  2. ruthhope

    My duck flew into the neighbor's tree, how do i get her to come back?

    Sad news, but perhaps she has the survival skills as well as her wanderlust. I think she will remember her days on the pond. My ducks get moved between my two residences, and they know exactly where they are. Good memories!! So do keep an eye out for her on the pond.
  3. ruthhope

    Drakes or Hens?

    You have to post a video or sound recording to Youtube and then post the link here I think you have 2 females and one drake -- the one with the dark head. I thought that from the photos, your description of their voices confirms
  4. ruthhope

    My duck flew into the neighbor's tree, how do i get her to come back?

    That little girl has extended herself beyond her comfort zone. My only escape artist was a female muscovy. They are all such busy little ducks -- much more so than the drakes that are happy just to sit around most of the day. But I think your girl has frightened herself and may not know how to...
  5. ruthhope

    Lost my pekin girl

    Don't beat your self up. Ducks are adept at hiding pain. If she was running around with her friends, eating and drinking normally, there is no way you could have known. Her end was mercifully fast and not a long agonized death. We all do our best and cannot do more. Many of us don't have access...
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    Muscovy male issue

    Here is my senior boy who is just re-feathering after a major molt. Mine are all drakes and all either rescues or rehomes
  7. ruthhope

    Muscovy male issue

    oh yes!! My boy likes frozen peas and mealworms.
  8. ruthhope

    Muscovy male issue

    One of my muscovy drakes has just had a major molt; his flight feathers are still pin feathers, coming through. He is behaving like your boy. This is normal. My drake is normally boss duck. He started being grouchy -- change in his behavior -- two weeks before his feathers started dropping. He...
  9. ruthhope

    Sick Two Month Old Runner Duckling! Help!

    What was the outcome of your situation with your runner drake? Has he recovered?
  10. ruthhope

    Sick Two Month Old Runner Duckling! Help!

    It was a drake so no oviducts. White poop is normal kidney excretion of urates not an infection
  11. ruthhope

    Duck was bitten by a dog

    I avoid stitching dog bites -- in humans as well as ducks -- as the bites are commonly infected. It's better that any infection can get out. I do give injured ducks Pedialyte [preferably the colorless and flavorless preparation that I have only found at Walmart] with added Rooster Booster...
  12. ruthhope

    Age & sex

    They may be a little younger than 11 weeks in the photos. By 12 weeks they should have their complete juvenile plummage. Yours still hsve a lot of fluffy down
  13. ruthhope

    Prolapse Phallus- 4 1/2 year old Drake

    I'm sorry but, despite having an all-drake flock, I have no experience of prolapsed phallus.
  14. ruthhope

    Duck Beak troubles

    In answer to your question, yes, your duck can survive with half the upper bill gone, but you will have to make suitable arrangement for her to eat. I had a rescued pekin that had been abandoned at a vet's office after being attacked by a raccoon when it was a little fluffy Easter Duckling. He...
  15. ruthhope

    Is this a courtship thing?

    My pekins do that. It's a friendly gesture, not necessarily courtship. Mine do it to their wading pool [when no one is in it, so definitely to the pool/water not a duck in there!] Mine are all rescued and rehabbed drakes that I am unable to find homes for. I had a pekin and a muscovy drake...
  16. ruthhope

    My Mystery Duckling is Becoming a Menace

    You asked about toys. There are several duckling life enrichment options, depending on size. you can make tunnels from empty cardboard boxes [eg cereal boxes, for them to run through. You can make steps for them to run up from flat disks of wood or tile. Make sure the steps are stable and...
  17. ruthhope

    Rats🫩

    I had an epidemic of rats (known as tree rats or roof rats) last year. Six or more of them coming swooping down out of the trees shading my duck house every evening at dusk. The only safe way to get rid of them was to trap them. I put 4 traps set with peanut butter in a wire dog crate, right...
  18. ruthhope

    Runner duck can’t walk

    Is he continuing to improve, @Vanillaandbean
  19. ruthhope

    Does my duck have wet feather??

    Nice female duck! I don't think you have anything to worry about. That is not wet feather. Its probably just a few feathers coming it that are not yet fully out and fluffed up, after she has shed a feather or two.
  20. ruthhope

    Runner duck can’t walk

    Obturator paralysis is generally reversible in females ducks with a treatable reproductive tract problem. In drakes, as in mine, it is caused by a pelvic tumor.
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