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    Duck can’t swallow, water won’t go down, comes out mouth and nose

    She didn’t make it.
  2. Stoney Meadow Maple

    Duck can’t swallow, water won’t go down, comes out mouth and nose

    Internet photo, but I would have said that the area around the tr trachea entrance was all swollen. I wonder if she swallowed a bee or something.
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    Duck can’t swallow, water won’t go down, comes out mouth and nose

    After several hours she’s still bringing up wet whenever agitated, no evidence that I can see that she is in taking water and her poop is liquid and chalky, no substance. She’s not particularly loud anyway, but it seems a strain to quack.
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    Duck can’t swallow, water won’t go down, comes out mouth and nose

    I tried to get a picture, by pulling her tongue forward there’s a bit of mucus like white stuff and I can see the little valve thing opening and closing, I don’t see an obvious obstruction. At first I was thinking egg bound, but now it seems like the issue has to be something in the throat/crop?
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    Duck can’t swallow, water won’t go down, comes out mouth and nose

    As the title says, I went to put my ducks away one of my young runners (May hatch) was by the water and wouldn’t move. I picked her up without her objections (which is strange) and she was dribbling water out her mouth and nose like dumping out a plastic water bottle, it was quite a volume. When...
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    “WTH?”

    They are not sure they like this..
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    Dried corn duck treats?

    Probably be good winter forage for them too, I throw hay out and make a giant nest that they can sit in, whenever it snows I throw another bale on top spread around. I sometimes throw meal worms in so they can forage.
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    Support Group for Abused Duck Keepers

    Ducks, like dogs love water, but don’t try to put them in water. This activity can lead to very beat up hands and arms. We were soaking a bumble.
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    Dried corn duck treats?

    We recently went to a place that had a petting zoo type thing they were selling corn, dried corn kernels to feed the deer and ducks. What’s the consensus on this as a treat? My daughter wants to feed our ducks corn now, I think she dislikes the cold/wet peas and it’s certainly more economical. I...
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    Bloody wings, sibling rivalry.

    My runner babies are getting beat up by their Khaki siblings. Last Thursday this wing was bloody, I surmised that she had gotten her head stuck in the wire mesh of the brooder, flailed around and beat her wings up, the next day I caught the khakis attacking her and pecking her wings. I was away...
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    Losing fluff/no feathers

    They will look like that wet, they don’t have the oils from their mother. Carefully blow dry them make sure not to burn them, they will really start to enjoy it.
  12. Stoney Meadow Maple

    Moving out? Too young? Too cold?

    So this is what I have. I put a shipping blanket over the top (not over the light) for the night, thermometer in the cage says 70 something.
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    Moving out? Too young? Too cold?

    My ducklings will be 4 weeks old on 5/21, they can’t be in the house anymore, and they aren’t ready to go out with the big ducks. I am Contemplating a brooder on the porch, my porch is covered and enclosed on 3.5 sides. The brooder would be 4x4 and critter proof. It can have a heat lamp. This is...
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    Pellets VS crumbles

    Also as I am studying here, what is the maximum allowable calcium? I found this that has .8%...
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    Pellets VS crumbles

    The ducklings?😝 I could, I would need to rethink the feeder, but that is doable.
  16. Stoney Meadow Maple

    Pellets VS crumbles

    Any opinions on this? Its 18% protein, doesn’t specifically state that it unmedicated, but doesn’t list it either, just a lot of probiotic drivel. https://nutrenaworld.com/products/naturewise-chick-starter-grower-feed/ Alternatively, what is the opinion on 20% protein? I have runners and KC’s...
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    Pellets VS crumbles

    I am having a hard time finding crumbles at lower protein levels. My runners and Khaki’s are 3 weeks ild now and I am trying to get them off the 22% crumbles to an 18%, I am feeding the big ducks Kalmbach duck/goode pellets, which are small pellets. Today I ran some through food processor, it...
  18. Stoney Meadow Maple

    So..so tired…

    I just got a message from the folks that gave me the eggs, they suggest Ancona/Golden 300 based on spotted bill and feet
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    So..so tired…

    I don’t know that those are the only possibilities, I think she was just trying to bring me runnerish eggs because she knew I liked them. I sent a message and she suggested maybe ancona.
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    So..so tired…

    No idea, this was one of the bigger eggs, I was handed a dozen eggs, told “these are fertilized and from this morning” I believe they have a large number of birds and sell to local stores and such, so anyone’s guess.
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