Search results for query: *

  1. suburbanduckmom

    Need a new home for our female Pekin in CA ASAP

    I need a good safe home for a pet pekin. She is very sweet and loves to be pet and held. She is an excellent layer. I love her so much that I know I need to let her go to a home that has other ducks. Some personal health issues are making it hard to give her the kind of life she deserves. This...
  2. suburbanduckmom

    What to do now?

    We lost our sweet scovy girl and now have a lone Pekin. She is wandering the yard doing this strange silent quacking and head bobbing. I want her to be happy. So I need to either find a new home for my girl that will take care of her or find an adult female duck that is good with people. Our...
  3. suburbanduckmom

    We lost sweet Daisy

    Our sweet Muscovy duck was taken by a skunk last night. My husband went to put them in the night pen and caught the jerk in the act. By the time he got his gun the skunk had got away. I feel terrible and keep blaming myself for not putting them away earlier. I really can't take the suggestions...
  4. suburbanduckmom

    Ducks eating pumpkin?

    Next weekend I am having some people over to carve pumpkins. We plan on toasting the seeds to have as a snack. Can we give the raw stringy pulpy stuff to the ducks? Should we limit how much of it they eat?
  5. suburbanduckmom

    Going above and beyond for your feathered friends

    So now, not only do my ducks get better food than many people but they are getting nightly pedicures. I'm treating them for bumble foot and I feel like I am running a day spa for ducks. Between the long soaks, scrub, and antibacterial gel they get a half an hour of undivided attention. This is...
  6. suburbanduckmom

    Sharing pictures of her first fab year...happy hatch day daisy

    My sweet girl is one year old today. Her first day with us Awkward teen phase Meeting her pekin sister the first time As best friends Today, after her hatch day treats It has been an amazing year. I never thought I could love a critter so much!
  7. suburbanduckmom

    ducks found the squirrel nut stash

    I was out reading in the yard when I noticed my scovy walking with a giant shelled peanut in her mouth. What the heck? I went to check it out and they had found a pile of nuts. Our neighbor feeds the squirrels and deer and my little darlings managed find the secret stash...I feel bad for the...
  8. suburbanduckmom

    Contaminated feed and salmonella

    I just read on CNN that the Salmonella found in eggs may be because of contaminated feed. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/26/eggs.salmonella.farms/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn Do we need to be worried about contaminated feed?
  9. suburbanduckmom

    Ducks and heat

    We have had a really cool summer so far but the past few days it has gotten really hot. We went from 70s to high 90s. We are keeping lots of water available and the ducks have shade. They have a lot of down still and are panting. They aren't eating as much as they usually do. I think the...
  10. suburbanduckmom

    new aflac commercial. uneaten peas? no way!

    I just saw the new Aflac commercial for the first time tonight with Guy Fieri. One way you know it is a CGI duck is because there are peas on the table and the duck eats a hot pepper off of the grill instead. I'm sure only my fellow duck lovers would get this.
  11. suburbanduckmom

    You know when you have been trained when...

    you feed the ducks dinner and dessert (peas) before you even think about what you are going to cook for the people. you make a mud puddle before using the hose to water the garden. your duck sitting directions are longer than the rest of directions for the house sitter. I may not be able to...
  12. suburbanduckmom

    Bubmlefoot help...pictures added

    My duck has some pretty nasty looking bumblefoot going on. I am 3 days into treating it with cephelexin. It looks like the biggest is getting bigger. I don't really want to cut into it. I've tried soaking it but she doesn't tolerate it well. How long should I give the cephelixin. Do I need to...
  13. suburbanduckmom

    Bumblefoot! What do I do?

    Over the weekend I noticed my jumbo pekin laying down much more often than usual and she has been much more tolerant of being pet. Tonight as I was putting the ducks to bed a little voice in my head told me to check her feet. I managed to get her cornered and get her on her back and I saw...
  14. suburbanduckmom

    How to stop a duck from going broody UPDATE: when will she lay again?

    Ok, so my scovy Daisy has had quite a few adventures lately. She was really friendly and snuggly but then started moving her nest each time I took her eggs, then she escaped the backyard trying to find a new place to nest and spent the night at the humane society, then she laid her eggs in the...
  15. suburbanduckmom

    My Muscovy cheeped!

    My 8 m.o. muscovy girl started cheeping/quacking. It almost sounds like the bark of a small dog. It is very strange. My husband said he noticed it 2 days ago. Has anyone ever heard of this? Is she sick? Is she trying to quack like the Pekins?
  16. suburbanduckmom

    GAHHH!!! Runaway duck!

    My sweet Daisy duck disappeared today . She can't fly but she can climb. Somehow she ended up in our neighbors front yard. Someone found her and took her to the local Humane Society. We can't go get her until 11am tomorrow. I can't sleep thinking of my poor girl being away from her flock and her...
  17. suburbanduckmom

    Nest hiding

    I finally found where my Muscovy has hidden her nest. She chose the most remote part of our property that is completely overgrown by thorny bushes. I spied on her from the house to see where she was going. Once she was in there she was completely hidden by the over growth. Good mama instincts...
  18. suburbanduckmom

    Duck belly making a popping/crunching sound!

    I noticed a popping/crunching sound coming from my muscovy's stomach. I'm concerned about it but I tend to worry too much about them. She laid an egg this morning but has been laying sporadically lately. I noticed her building a nest this morning so hopefully she will start laying more...
  19. suburbanduckmom

    Missing or hidden eggs

    Ok, so my silly scovy girl started laying eggs two weeks ago and the past few days I haven't been able to find her eggs. She dutifully laid them in her box for the first week, then started waiting until later in the day to lay. That was fine, I could collect them when I got home from work. She...
  20. suburbanduckmom

    Is my Daisy really a Donald?

    So there isn't really a polite way to say this so I'm just going to say it...My 6.5 mo old Muscovy was on my lap this afternoon being very cuddly and sweet when I realized that she pooped on me...but it didnt look like poop. It was white and sticky and looked more like ejaculate. Do females ever...
Back
Top Bottom