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  1. ruthhope

    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
  2. ruthhope

    Muscovy male issue

    oh yes!! My boy likes frozen peas and mealworms.
  3. 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...
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    Sick Two Month Old Runner Duckling! Help!

    What was the outcome of your situation with your runner drake? Has he recovered?
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    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
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    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...
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    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
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    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.
  9. 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Runner duck can’t walk

    Is he continuing to improve, @Vanillaandbean
  14. 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.
  15. 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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    Runner duck can’t walk

    I have had a drake that this happened to. Please take a good look at your boy: check him out for injuries to his legs and hips, and for lumps and bumps in his abdomen, including low down in his abdomen into his pelvis. If he has injured legs, feet, hips: treat accordingly. For all gait...
  17. ruthhope

    Let’s Talk Ducks

    Thank you for compassion and caring. Your sweet duckling needs ducky companionship. Ducks are flock animals. Might you get another 2 ducks?
  18. ruthhope

    Let’s Talk Ducks

    I love female muscovy ducks -- I see feral muscovy around retention ponds all-round the town where I live [St Augustine in Florida]. My own flock is all drakes -- muscovy and pekins that have been rescued and rehabilitated. I have always been able to rehome rescued and rehabbed females, but...
  19. ruthhope

    Support Group for Abused Duck Keepers

    Mine love hiding but all I need to do is go to the back door and call out their names and out they pop and come up waddling! They are so nosy, they need to know what I am up to when I am in the garden!!
  20. ruthhope

    Duck being weird neck

    Good that it is soft and squishy! I would manage her conservatively: quiet and separated with one female friend for a few days observation until resolved!!
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