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Newly hatched duckling issues...? Or is this all normal?
This is my newly hatched duck, we were totally unprepared for him to hatch today! He was the only one that hatched out of 2. He was born with a yolk sac I believe still attached. Also his feet are inverted! We don’t have a heat lamp so he is in the incubator! I mashed peas for him since we don’t...- Muse
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- Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
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How to keep female ducks from biting me?
We have this one little duck, she is a few months old, her name is Pistachio. When I hold her, sometimes she'll lower her head, make this small huffing sound and bite and pull my lip. She has made my lip bleed before. Why does she do this? What am I doing wrong? I've had her since a hatchling... -
I miss my duckies so much!
I've been on 'vacation' (a work trip) since May 28th and will not be leaving until July the 19th. We left our four ducks, Astrid(f), Dupont(m), Max(m), and Pistachio(f) back home with their grandmother and their 13 chicken friends in a coop. They are all 'big ducks' now but I had to miss... -
Duck having seizures or nightmares?
This is our 3 week old Cayuga duck, Dupont: I apologize for the blue tint, the room does not have good lighting. We keep our ducks in an enclosed space inside the house at night and sometimes during the day although we frequently take them outside to walk around and swim. Last night when... -
Sick duckling or mentally ill *please help!!*
So we got a baby Mallard from the store yesterday (we already have 2 ducks that are 2 weeks old and are getting pretty big) and he actually jumped out of the box he was being held in and hit the floor. I brushed him off, checked him out and he was fine. So we took him home and introduced him...