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Help With Injured Saxony Duck
You are getting good advice. Allbirdproducts.com is the only place I know where you can get antibiotics without a prescription. But it takes 4 or 5 days for them to arrive even with expedited delivery. I dont think you can get amoxycillin. You will have to get that from a vet or get the... -
Why is our duck hunching over like this
Actually, it seems to be the first part of a not an uncommon maneuver for pekin drakes. However, most go on to slightly extend their necks and to make a "belching" sound. I think your boy is perhaps adjusting his crop. -
Introducing a muscovy hen into a chicken flock?
Most ducks are happy with other ducks -- its muscovy that are the exception!! I have pekins and muscovy rescues -- all drakes as they are difficult to rehome. The pekins sort of live on the outside of the muscovy -- not only do muscovy speak a different language: they don't do the head bobbing... -
My duck flew into the neighbor's tree, how do i get her to come back?
I'm so glad you got her home -- and enjoyed the walk with you back to your place. Feral muscovy females walk round NW Florida neighborhoods even though they can fly. They go to the houses they know will feed them. I was interested that Karen seemed to know where she lived even while at the... -
My duck flew into the neighbor's tree, how do i get her to come back?
I was suggesting you move the wading pool to the front where she can see it from the tree. But that is no longer necessary now that you have her!! -
Introducing a muscovy hen into a chicken flock?
I don't know about adding silkies-- I defer to the advice that you should get a couple more before adding a silkie to other chichens But I disagree rather strongly with getting 1 duck ANY variety before adding the muscovy female to the chickens. Muscovy do not speak the language of other ducks... -
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... -
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. -
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 -
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... -
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... -
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 -
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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... -
Sick Two Month Old Runner Duckling! Help!
What was the outcome of your situation with your runner drake? Has he recovered?- ruthhope
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- Forum: Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures
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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- ruthhope
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- Forum: Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures
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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... -
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.- ruthhope
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- Forum: Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures
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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...- ruthhope
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