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Duckling eye won't open!
It hatched out last night along with 3 others and seemed to do fine, I'm not sure if it came out with its eye shut or not. To me it looks like the eye is there its just the lid won't open! Is there anything I can do to help it? Its possible it got pecked by one of the other ducklings but I don't... -
duckling with twisted neck help!!!!
HELP quick please my first duckling hatched no problem once its head was through it pushed the rest of the body out within minutes but this one was half out (head stuck in) for three hours. I pulled back a little bit of the shell and then closed it back up and it finally made its way out, no... -
Goose not staying on nest?
My embden geese (2 girls and one boy) started laying eggs, but when their first nest got destroyed by a mean swan, I started collecting the eggs i found and bringing them in for incubation or for food. Randomly, a little over a week ago, I couldn't find any more eggs and I just assumed they were... -
Incubating Help
the below post has already been answered, I'm now in the process of my duckies hatching and need help with them! go to my last post please!! I need to know if my eggs are fertile!! I have embden geese and a variety of ducks that have been laying a lot of eggs. None of my birds have shown any... -
Help! Swan attacking my flock!
Last spring I got 15 ducks (in april 2014) and 3 embden geese (in july 2014) that I raised in a brooder and then released onto my 7 acre lake. This is a neighborhood lake and also has a variety of wild and domestic fowl on it, including a swan pair. We were hesitant about how our flock would get... -
Missing Duck!
In my little flock i have 9 pekin,3 rouen,3 indian runners, and 3 embden geese. We put them in their pen every night and let them out every morning. This has been going on for about 3 months no problems, besides two weeks ago when i was gone for a few days and they refused to go up for my mother... -
Ducks won't come in! HELP
their pen is right by the water and since June every night they would go right In at dusk to eat dinner and be put up for the night and every morning at dawn we'd let them out. For some reason this past week they have refused to leave to lake to go in their pen. We've tried coaxing them with all... -
Shell-less egg!
I was watching my ducks playing on land at about 1:30 pm today and, as I often see, a male had gotten on top of a pekin female. We have a huge lake for our ducks so normally they do the mating in the water so I thought this was weird and continued to watch. Well after a few seconds of the male... -
African Grey
Last week I got a four month old baby african grey that I named Ava and I love her so much!! I've read a lot of books and articles about them but I'd appreciate any special information that other owners could give me! Basically what did you wish you knew when you first got your parrot? Or what...- anniele27
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- Forum: Caged Birds - Parrots, Canaries, Finches etc.
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HELP! Duck shaking/seizing
Friday morning we first noticed one of our pekin hens suddenly stop walking and shook her head and neck around like crazy. It only lasted a few seconds and when it was done she just continued walking like nothing happened. This has happened twice yesterday, and three times today that we've... -
Cute Gosling videos!
We got embden goslings about a week ago and after two broods of ducks we decided it was finally time to make a YouTube for all the videos! There are a few old videos from when the ducks were babies but I'm updating with new gosling videos almost every day! Please check it out... -
Is this normal?
Our dog buddy seems to love all of our birds and is so far very gentle with them but after bath time he tries to lick them? He never is with any of the flock unsupervised but we'd like him to be able to go in the yard with our runners. He did this once with the runner as ducklings but we... -
Embden geese questions
Hi all! I'm new to geese (just got ducks this easter) and am getting 3 embdens goslings at the end of this month! I have been stalking the geese threads trying to learn as much as possible before they come! Here are my questions: 1. Can i eventually house my geese with my larger ducks... -
Limping duck!
We have an Egyptian goose here that has been attacking my ducks. I shoo it away Everytime I see it but I worry because I cannot be here all day. One of my ducks is limping now and I worry she was injured trying to escape the goose. I searched the forums here and the only suggested cause is... -
Wild duck attack!
I'm trying to identify a duck that attacked my ducks and I today. It's not any of the domesticated ducks I've seen before! It flew right up to my ducks and I on our beach and started attacking them. I got a paddle and shooed it away from my ducks and it started lunging and biting at me before It... -
Duck house questions
I'm pretty sure that this has probably been answered somewhere but I am not having any luck trying to search the forums on my phone so here I go: We are building our outdoor duck house this weekend so it'll be all ready when the ducks need to be moved in. We have a kinda drop off area right... -
Wanted: ducks or geese in need of rehoming (near stl)
I am willing to take any unwanted easter ducks or geese! I have a large lake and some ducks already. I've seen a few posts about this but nothing around my area so I thought Id give the southern IL people an option. I live about two hours away from SPRINGFIELD IL and half an hour away from stl...- anniele27
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- Forum: Other Poultry - Birds & Hatching Eggs
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Worming ducks? and nician questions
We just got three 1 1/2 week old runners that will be eventually added to our currently 6 week old flock of 12 pekins/rouens. When doing research on runners it said we HAVE to worm them and that they MUST have nican. So what is you alls opinion on worming ducks and is there any natural wormers... -
Runner age?
We just got runners from the farm store yesterday and I'm curious if anyone has any guesses at what age they may be! Also because they are yellow they'll most likely turn white with brown right? -
Adding new ducks to my flock??
We live on an estimated 5-7 acre lake and have 12 ducks (3 Rouen and 9 pekin) that are about six weeks old and raised together. By sounds we are pretty sure we only have about 3-4 males. Then yesterday we went to the farm store to stock up on supplies and saw they had Indian runners there...