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Duck injury
Injury...I have a Pekin that got into it with something. It looks like her eye is missing and she has something slimy coming out of her beak. She is black all over. She's standing by her water, by herself in her pen and she isn't showing any signs of pain. Do ducks show signs of pain when they...- MugsyM
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- Forum: Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures
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Help me guess
This is the one duckling hatched out of 5 brooding ducks. Anybody have a clue who might be the Baby Momma... Options 1 fawn and white Indian Runner, 1 Rouen, 2 Pekins and 1 Golden Egg 300? Then who might be the Baby Daddy.... Options 1 Pekin, 1 Khaki Campbell and 1 fawn and white Indian Runner... -
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Surprise .. surprise.
There were the 5 we bought and then there are two our brooders surprised us with. There's one more but one of the brooders decided to act like a mother to it instead of Mommy Dearest. We found 4 brooder surprises but 2 didn't make it. The last picture is my grown 5 eating my azaleas. Wanted 2... -
Another breed ID
Here's a new one to add to our other 6. We were looking for 2, called and they said they had 4 and when we got there, there were 5. 2 or 5 added to 6 with 2 brooding, what could go wrong? My DH went and picked them up. I thought 1 was a Pekin, not sure it isn't but my other 6 are Pekins. None of... -
Heavy breathing
I have a 3 year old Pekin...I think he's a Jumbo. For the past several days he has had labored breathing, he is isolating himself from the other ducks and I think what he is doing is sneezing. Today he's just not acting like himself at all. He just stays to himself and looks off over a field. He... -
Duck pen cleaning
It was bound to happen. I had emergency surgery and my duck pen needs cleaning and I can't do it. I live in a small (farming) community but apparently duck pen cleaning doesn't fall in the farming category. I have been asking around trying to find somebody but have no bites yet. I don't even...- MugsyM
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- Forum: Coop & Run - Design, Construction, & Maintenance
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Eggplant
Do ducks eat eggplant. My neighbor brought me an eggplant from their garden for Thanksgiving dinner. I don't just don't like, I can't swallow eggplant. I hate to throw it out but I can't eat it. Has anybody tried feeding eggplants to ducks? I gave them some pumpkins last week and they loved them.- MugsyM
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- Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
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Oh my goodness..
My ducks have all been brooding since April. I have 4 and at one time all 4 were just sitting on huge empty nests. I knew none were fertile because they hadn't been around the boys. Two got tired and decided this wasn't fun anymore. They came on out to forage during the day then the third one... -
Mistake?
I have 8 ducks 6 females and 2 males. One of the drakes is a 24/7 365 day a year jerk. He is a big boy and he is overly rough with my girls. I have tried time out and he just comes back at it. He is who he is. Of course, with spring my second drake started up. He does his business but he isn't... -
Varmit stealing eggs
I looked out the window the other day and saw a varmit coming out of my duck house with an egg in its mouth. Yesterday my husband went into the house to check on a duck we have that has gone broody and is sitting round the clock. When he went in the varmit was in there, looked at him then ran. I... -
My ducks had their first visitors
I was watching my ducks swimming this morning when a flock of 8 Canadian geese flew in. The ducks got out of the pond and I kept watching as they seemed to be having a stand off. The ducks got back in the pond and swam over to the geese. 4 of the geese got in the pond. Something spooked the... -
Getting ducks in for the night
I am still learning. As my better half says talking to ducks is like talking to a rock. I think rocks listen better. My ducks free range and there is a pond right really close to the pond. We were doing pretty good getting them to line up and go in AND THEN one had 4 ducklings. One of the... -
Managing my flock or my flock managing me??
I have the meanest brute of a drake named BoBo. He loves the girls but the girls don't like him. He is destined to live the rest of his life in "time out". I just had 4 babies for about 2 weeks. That's how long it took for them to grow up. Three of the 4 don't want to come in at night. I try...- MugsyM
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Squawk Box
I just had the Pekin who blessed us with 4 sweet babies. They're skinny but they stand as tall as Momma. We have the world separated. Now I am having a hard time with one of my females. I call her Little Darling. She had the sweetest disposition until about 2 days ago. We were rotating feed and... -
Brooding Pekin
Well, we have a brooding Pekin. We are clueless about the brooding process. I hope it is one of the things that just comes natural to her. Ducklings were not planned in my future. She is young and I am worried for her that none of the ducklings survive. The odd (maybe not to people who...