Help! We have a black cayuga that is laying a soft shelled egg now for three days. We give them free choice oyster shells, and thier feed is oyster shell strong too. What else can we do. We are worried she might get one stuck. Any supplements? Please help! She acts totally fine and healthy...
We are getting our duck pen for ponds ready and want to know what type of pond filter we should use for our ducks. We have two 125 gallon ponds in the ground with gravel around them in hopes to keep the mud down. We have 12 ducks and we don't want to spend alot of $$. Advise please!! THANK YOU!
Our ducks are right at 24 wks old, and have been on layer feed for several weeks now. We are in SC and it is mild weather right now, really cloudy and foggy/rainy. We keep thinking they will start laying any day, but still none. We have cayuga, harlequin, runners, and swedish ducks. I don't know...
We are around the Charleston Area in SC. We are having the hardest time finding straw for the duck house. Everything is pine straw around here for sale. I know we can use pine shavings, but we just don't like them. They don't break down as fast. Does anyone know where to get straw? Online maybe...
Sorry, I hadn't replied for a while. Our limper is actually doing good now. There were two small brown circular spots on her foot and we just soaked it in ES a couple times and tried to get her alot of swim time. My daughter ended up picking her up and carried her to the pool for a week. We...
I think our black cayuga has a small case of bumblefoot. She walks with a limp and really prefers to be sitting. She doesn't mind us look at it, and the leg doesn't look swollen. She eats and drinks fine. I bought some green goo and will be putting it on her foot. She had a small brown corn...
So after 3 days of seizuring, she had 6 one day, 7 the next, then 3... she is back to eating, dabbling, etc. We increased her niacin, gave her a little blackstrap molassas in her food, and gave her vit b. She improved little by little. It's crazy! Almost like she injested something that made her...
Oh, YES they are on a flock raiser crumble. I'm saying today we noticed she will not eat. I have given her 1 ml of Vit B and she just looks like shes in a daze. She did play in the pool, but she won't eat. We will mix her food with water and syringe it in then. I am hoping she comes out of...
Ok, so she just had another one. She was on her back this time lying still. She won't eat or drink. Please Help! She is up walking, but won't do anything else. Should I separate her from the others? Feed her with an eyedropper?
She is 11 weeks old, going on 12. She is a black cayuga duck, and she eats the same as the rest of the ducks. Brewers yeast supplement, occasional peas, sweet potatoes, occasional sprulina powder and frozen corn. They forage too. She is the only one doing it. I would say it's been going on for...
Our black cayuga is having a similiar instance of seizures lately too. I don't know if she got into something, or what. It lasts a minute and her head shakes around, but all the other ducks crowd around her and quack at her to calm her down. We are trying to figure out what is happening too!
In the recent TS Florence, we had some down limbs from our tall pine trees. We are new to duck raising... but I'm hoping it's ok to let the ducks hide in and chew on them? They seem to love it, but I wanted to check. I can't really find a thread answering this particular question.
TIA