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    My Peking duck has a blueberry lodged in her throat. Help!

    We're not sure what to do about it. She is breathing fine, but seems to have a little trouble drinking water. She doesn't seem to be in any real distress. We were feeding her some blueberries, and it happened then. She scared us for a while because she clearly seemed to be choking. Then it got a...
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    Do some duck foods produce stinkier poop than others?

    We have a duck that likes to come inside our house sometimes. She's really sort of an indoor-outdoor duck. Problem is: the poop REALLY stinks. My daughter heard that certain brands of duck food produce stinkier poop than others. We use Dumor, but she read somewhere that Dumor is supposed to...
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    What will happen to my duckling?

    We have a very special Pekin duckling. His father, who we loved very much and was the alpha of our ducks, was killed by a fox. We took all the eggs that had been fertilized by him (only 3) and tried incubating them. We were able to hatch one. It has been alone in the brooder with no other ducks...
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    HELP! Our heating lamp broke, and it's too late to get a new one tonight!

    Our duckling is about a month old now. The brooder is a rabbit hutch. Earlier this evening, the hutch lid slammed shut on the heating lamp and destroyed the bulb. I don't have anything else I can use right now. It's about 70 degrees in the room. Will the duckie be okay without a heating lamp...
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    I have started an intervention. I'm glad I did, but worried.

    I have a duck that was not making any progress. He pipped about 48 hours ago. His beak was sticking out, and he is slightly breach. I chipped away at the shell near the beak and widened the hole. The membrane is very tough, so I guess that means he didn't get enough humidity. I was able to tear...
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    Peking egg - internal pip over 48 hours ago, external about 36...Intervene?

    How much longer should I wait to assist with the hatching? There is plenty of movement and chirping. The egg rocks sometimes a little. There is only a little slit in the membrane where he externally pipped, but he's breathing. About a nickel size of shell came off and we are able to see the...
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    Duck egg - internal pip over 48 hours ago, external about 36...Intervene?

    How much longer should I wait to assist with the hatching? There is plenty of movement and chirping. The egg rocks sometimes a little. There is only a little slit in the membrane where he externally pipped, but he's breathing. About a nickel size of shell came off and we are able to see the...
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    Can you hold my hand - trying to hatch a peking duck

    Hi Everyone. First timer here (with hatching). We have incubated a Peking duck egg. I don't know exactly how many days it has been, but I know we're in the final hours. The duckling pipped the air sac early yesterday (or during the night before). We can sometimes hear chirping. It made a small...
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    Chirping, can see in air sac, but pipping on wrong end!

    HELP! We don't know what we're doing and we're trying to hatch a duck in our incubator. It's been about 28 days. Last night, we noticed a small outward dent on the wrong end of the egg. This morning, we heard chirping! We candled it and we can see the beak in the air sac and hear chirping...
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