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    Blind duck has white dot on eye - what is it?

    Our little BeepBeep has been blind now for almost 3 years. (She is 5 years old.) In the past couple weeks her eye has been oozing a little liquid and she is keeping it shut. I have been treating with antibiotics. In the past this worked, but not this time. No reaction to the antibiotic and she...
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    Imprinted Duck not preening his wing feathers

    Hello all This is a new one for me. So curious if anyone out there has some ideas or knowledge. I have a male piebald duck, part mallard part call duck, that is imprinted on me. He is a couple months shy of being 1 year old. He preens, particularly his chest feathers. I have literally just now...
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    Eggbound young Call Duck?

    Hello. I have a young call duck, small but not super small. She will be a year old in April. I think she is eggbound with her first egg, but I am not completely certain. Please note - We do not have a Vet willing to deal with ducks near us, so going to a vet is not a possibility. Therefore, any...
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    Tree house chicken coop ideas ? And can chickens learn to use?

    Hello all I have taken care of chickens in the past, and they were housed in a standard chicken house with run and also had run of the garden during the day. One of the chickens (all black, but don't know the breed) used to like to roost in nearby trees, particularly if she felt threatened is...
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    My duck has just gone lame - help please

    Asking for assistance from any experienced duck owners please. We have 4 mallards (one imprinted adult) and one white call duck, who have been with us for 5 years, so we have some experience and knowledge - though never enough. This is a new one for me. Hatched 8 weeks ago, our Gabby (by...
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    Suggestions on how I 'bathe'/clean a disabled chicken please

    Hello all I have taken on a disabled chicken. Long story short, she has an internal growth, golf ball size. Not an egg bound egg, not a tumour. It occurred 2 years ago (March), went away and came back (again in March) and has gone down, but not gone away. 2 Vets have no idea. Antibiotics did...
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    Duckling can't stand or walk

    Hoping some people have some ideas for me. I have a 1 week old duckling. The mother, our pet mallard duck Maggie, has abandoned her. We took the duckling into our home yesterday, spent the day together gardening. All was fine. This morning we woke to find her limping slightly and this has...
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    Good foods for niacin deficient duckling?

    Good morning I have a week old mallard duckling. It's mother, our pet duck Maggie, has abandoned her. We started taking care of the duckling since yesterday. Today we woke up to find her legs splayed and she is barely able to hobble about. Niacin deficiency suspected. Shops are not open today...
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    Building a multi-use and simple Chicken Duck Enclosure

    This spring we built a chicken duck enclosure. After much planning, reviewing and more planning, we finally threw all the ideas away and went for simple and inexpensive and the least amount of disruption to our feathered flock as possible. Creatures of Habit Chickens, and particularly ducks...
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    Duck runt problems - advice needed

    Our saga.... We have 5 ducks, 1 male and 4 females. One of the females, Maggie, is the mother of the other four (hatched in April). Maggie is a pet duck (imprinted on me). The others are tame-ish, but not pet ducks. Maggie lives indoors at night and is outside with the other ducks during the...
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    Duck on nest too long?

    Hi all, some advice needed. I have a pet duck (imprinted on me). She is currently sat on eggs, but has been on the nest since Christmas! I understand that the normal time is 28 days, but our difficulty is we do not know when she incubated. I have candled the eggs and at least 2 have something...
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    Help! Abandoned duck eggs - hatching (with no incubator)

    Anyone out there that can assist? We had a female duck on a nest of 8 eggs. 4 hatched sometime during last night and she has now abandoned the nest and there are 4 eggs left. One has a crack with some shell missing and white membrane showing, a little beak is sticking out, but there is some...
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    Duck is missing - but strange circumstances (we think). Ideas welcome.

    I recently posted about some eggs being moved out of a nest, and now even more strange goings on have occurred. Last night we found an egg that had been opened, but this time by our duck who is nesting well outside of the compound (e.g. under a hedge about 200 metres away), e.g. one of hers...
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    Comb size - does it matter?

    I have inherited the care of 3 chickens and a cockerel. All are different and all proper personalities in their own rights. I have noticed the pecking order in the group, which I find interestingly is not based on size (possibly breed?). (Little brown chicken is alpa, followed by the larger grey...
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    Chicken Detectives Needed - Something has eaten 3 eggs - but what?!?!

    THE BACKGROUND: We have free range ducks and chickens. We put them in their respective houses at night (actually the chickens put themselves to bed, the ducks take a little encouragement), and then let them out in the morning, where they then have free roam of the garden. Yesterday I had...
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    Free range ducks sitting on nests - best protection if any?

    We have 5 free range ducks (and chickens) in a very large fenced garden. They can fly, and occassionaly swoop out only to turn immediately and head back in to the garden, so they obviously recogise the boundaries of 'their' enclosure. Normally we put them in their own house at night for...
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    Free range ducks sitting on nests - best protection if any?

    We have 5 free range ducks (and chickens) in a very large fenced garden. They can fly, and occassionaly swoop out only to turn immediately and head back in to the garden, so they obviously recogise the boundaries of 'their' enclosure. Normally we put them in their own house at night for...
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    Duck tape stuck to brooding chicken - help!

    I have a brooding chicken that has been sitting on her nest for the past two weeks. Today she decided to go for a little stretch in the garden and promptly got some duck tape stuck to her backside. I tried to get to her to get the tape off before it got emeshed in her feathers, but to no avail...
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    Mallard Drake protective but also chasing duckings - should we be worried?

    I have checked the threads, but am not able to find an answer to my question, so am hoping someone out there has some experience they can relate. We have a dwarf mallard drake and two female mallards. Our Drake has bonded with one of the females, but has also mated with the other. They both...
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    2 ducklings hatched but still 6 eggs - will they hatch?

    Hope someone can help. I am wondering if the rest of the eggs in a clutch are going to hatch. The story thus far... We have two female mallard domestic ducks (though different breeds within mallard family). They have been laying eggs and sitting on a nest together (as well as taking it in...
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