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Pekin Duck | slipped tendon or niacin deficiency? Need Help!
Oh poor boy!. Ive not experience a duck with a slipped tendon, but I have had ducks -- adult and juvenile -- with gait issues. Sudden onset gait issues in adult ducks is likely to be an injury. Might be a sprain, a dislocation, or slipped tendon. Or it might be a fracture. It could even be... -
I can feel ducks ribcage 😢
I am not so sure about the significance of feeling the rib cage in musovy. The key to measuring thinness or not is how prominent is the keel. Miss Lydia has far more experience than I do and if your girl is broody and starving herself, please follow Miss Lydia's guidance for breaking her of... -
Mobile duck schooner...?!
I'm not clear what these schooners look like -- might you post a photograph. But in answer to your question, ducks need 4sq ft open floor space at night. Actually, my pekins sleep in dog crates in the duck house that are a little under 4 sq ft, and are happy. Outdoor enclosures should be a... -
Why won't they Molt?!?
I have 2 pups that think the duck pellets are better than their kibble!!! I've been feeding the ducks twice a day with food banned from the duck house because of an invasion of tree rats. The dogs have had to be banned from the garden for an hour after I have fed the ducks late afternoon, as... -
Why won't they Molt?!?
I have a muscovy drake thatvid 4.5 years old and just finishing his first big molt since getting his adult plumage 3 years ago. His partnervin crime, a couple of months older, has never had a big molt. Yet my third muscovy drake that is only 3 years old is in the middle of a big molt. Meanwhile... -
X-rays added. Surgery or endoscopy to remove large stones? Finally found the issue four weeks into hand feeding to keep duck alive
So sad for you and your girl. I dont have experience with this. I once paid for a consultation with an exotic vet and it was very expensive and the vet couldn't do more than offer to euthanize my drake. I declined as the boy had a good quality of life and the will to live. He lived another 6... -
Question about angelwing (pretty sure my girls are developing this)
Thete is no evidence that angel wing is caused by too much protein, although that is a too common duck-keepers "old wives tail". The only evidence about causation is epidemiological. Angel wing is most common in ducks living in parks and on public waterways where they are fed bread amd ither... -
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 -