So about a week ago one of my younger drakes started attacking my older drake. He is the smallest male we have. Last year we hatched our first 3 duck eggs and got 2 more males and one female. So we now have a total of 5 females to 4 males. The younger male I believe ripped out most of the older...
Hey haven't posted in a while but I have a older male duck who has suddenly within the past 48 hours has had most of his feathers plucked by the base of his neck. He also looks pretty ruffled and has clearing discharge from his nose. Now I'm not sure if my other males are picking on him or if a...
Hello all,
So I tried a new thing and tried hatching some of my previous duck eggs. We had 3 of them hatch and they are doing great so far. The one white one has some hairloss by her wings on both sides. Im not sure if its just still molting and growing in or if it is a medical issue. Its been...
Just an update. We have finished the new duck pen and I love it. They are out of the mud (for now) and they are loving the space. We also put our babies outside and everyone is doing well
we had to make the decision yesterday to rehome one of our male ducks. He is just plainly going to kill our female. Yesterday he grabbed the females head thur the fence i have up to seperate them, and was drowning her. So any suggestions/vibes would be great right now
I feel like this isn an repeated topic but I need ideas. So I have 4 adult ducks outside and 4 ducklings inside I am currently struggling on keep all of them dry and clean. It is driving me nuts. With the crazy weather we've been having the outside ducks are constantly in mud and even when we do...
this is what I came up with in order to keep them dry! So far its working! No more messy ducks! They took a little bit to get used to the hardwire mesh but once they got it they were good. I used a paint tough, hardwire mesh, and zip ties! 15 minutes to make and coast about 50 bucks for the tub...
So I was handling one of my ducklings tonight and she flipped over onto her back. She is only 9 days old. It happened in seconds. Im so upset about it. The eye itself seems fine, its just brown crusties around it. Shes doing well otherwise. Eating/drinking, walking fine etc. The picture i have...
I'm sure this topic has been discussed. But I am upgrading my brooder because they are getting to big for it. I am constantly changing bedding etc to attempt to keep them dry. Any one have any ideas? Pictures please!
So we currently have one female Pekin living with 3 male mallards. We are getting more females tomorrow but they won't be ready to live outside for a little bit. Today I noticed that the female has a light pink bald spot on the back of her neck. No bleeding, energy level normal, eating normal...