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  1. PicklesMom

    Suddenly agressive female duck

    Hello - We have a flock of 1 male (Pekin) and 4 female (Pekin and Swedish) ducks, 2-3 years old. One of our Swedish girls, Unicorn - my daughter named them - has always been quite small, so much that we'd have to keep her separated from our drake during mating season. Over the summer we lost...
  2. PicklesMom

    Thoughts on our new gal...

    I'm curious what others think about this little hen that I picked up on Craigslist yesterday. She is supposed to be a Buff/Rouen cross, hatched "in June". She's so small! I'd guess 1-2 lbs, though I haven't weighed her. She is mostly feathered but has a little fluff on her back. When we have...
  3. PicklesMom

    Bird death and possible flu :(

    Hi all, I am so sad and just needed to share. Over the last few days our sweet duck Sparkle began struggling to breathe. In retrospect it might have started a few days earlier but I thought the ducks were panting because it was so hot; then it cooled off and she was still panting and within 24...
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    Algaecide & wet feather!

    Hello, The filter on our pond broke, and when the helpful repairman came to fix it last week he dumped a bunch of some algaecide in without asking. He assured me it was safe for the ducks, obviously I wasn't convinced. I think it was just way too much, as the pond has been cloudy and foam since...
  5. PicklesMom

    Duck foot bruise?

    Hi everyone, I noticed my Pekin Susan standing with one leg up this morning. Susan is extra-prone to foot issues, I think because she had perosis as a duckling and while she gets around fine, her waddle is a little off. She's walking on the leg without much of a limp, just holds it up when...
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    Broody Duck Question

    Hi everyone - Question about one of my lady ducks, who I think may be broody. We have a flock with 4 females and one drake, almost 2 years old. Our drake can be obsessive about one of our females, who is also the smallest unfortunately, so I tend to keep her separated from him especially during...
  7. PicklesMom

    Barn Cat Feeding

    Wondering if anyone has brilliant ideas for barn cat feeding setups - to keep the rats out of the food? We have a fairly feral cat we adopted around 6 months ago, to keep the rats down, and she mainly eats at night. The rats had pretty much gone away through the winter and I got a little lazy...
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    Duck Eye Injury - success!

    Hello duck friends! I'm always grateful to people who have shared their experiences so that I can learn from them, and so wanted to share about our duck's recent eye injury, luckily with a happy ending. When I went out Saturday morning to feed, I noticed our duck Unicorn had a white, foamy...
  9. PicklesMom

    Duck Weight/ Keel Question

    Hello duck friends, I have 5 ducks, 2 Pekins and 3 Swedish, who are just over a year old. We've recently gone from free feeding a Nutrena Duck Pellet to 3-4 feedings of Mazuri Maintenance daily, largely due to a rat issue in the run (argh). By my calculation based on what the bag says they...
  10. PicklesMom

    Duck-iversary!

    Hi everyone, Today is our one-year anniversary of being duck owners, and I wanted to take a minute to thank everyone on this forum for being so generous with their time. It's been quite a learning curve with perosis, niacin, bumblefoot, an infected joint and our ducks wouldn't have made it this...
  11. PicklesMom

    Foot infections

    Hi fellow duck lovers, A year into our adventure with ducks I am feeling so discouraged - we keep having duck foot issues despite our best efforts. Most recently this weekend, I noticed that our Blue Swedish, Sparkle, was limping and her ankle was swollen. She had been walking just fine the day...
  12. PicklesMom

    Pale Bill / Bumblefoot?

    First, thanks so much to everyone on this forum. I've learned so much from responses to my posts and from reading others' posts. For the last several months I've been dealing with bumblefoot in my nearly one year-old Pekin, Susan. I think she is prone because she has a slightly funny waddle...
  13. PicklesMom

    Bumblefoot - cephaperin

    I'm struggling with a case of bumblefoot that just doesn't seem to want to get better in our Pekin. It was drained by our vet last week who got several chunks of the pus out. We've been soaking with dilute chlorhexadine, spraying with vetirycin, and applying bacitracin. I've had two pea-sized...
  14. PicklesMom

    Stress diarrhea?

    We've been dealing with bumblefoot in our 8 month-old Pekin, Susan, for the last few months and this week it swelled to the point where it had to be drained at the vet yesterday. She didn't get any medicine at the vet except a homeopathic remedy (Calendula; when I looked it up quickly it seems...
  15. PicklesMom

    Gapeworm?

    One of our Pekins, Susan, who is about 6 months old, started to make a funny cough/squeak sound about 5 days back. She is also usually our loudest and most obnoxious quacker and was pretty quiet all of a sudden. I was planning to call the vet tomorrow after the long weekend, because a video I'd...
  16. PicklesMom

    Duckling drooling, ran out of water overnight!

    Good morning, we are first time duckling owners and I'm worried about my two week old Pekin duckling "Bill". This morning when I came downstairs they had somehow managed to empty both of their water bowls, I'm not sure how long they were without water. He did eat a little this morning but maybe...
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    4 week chick - swollen hock

    Good morning! We got 4 week chicks from McMurrays 2 days ago. We've had chickens for a few years but this is our first experience with chicks. She is a Cuckoo Marans. She is in a dog crate with 4 others in our basement, with shavings on the tray. They're quite active and getting around well...
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