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    Duck with broken/injured leg

    Hi. One of my young female ducks has hurt her leg. Is there a step by step guide of how to splint or treat it? Her family group are very protective of her and I struggle to get them to leave the house in the morning. I have been keeping her in there to give her time to recuperate. The other...
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    Chicken has discharge dripping from back end

    Just went to shut my birds away. I have only one chicken and lots of ducks. The chicken, Ben, us always very perky and active, but happily goes away in the evening. She was acting fine earlier today and we had an egg from her this morning. Anyway I noticed she was hiding under a hedge while I...
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    Do I keep eggs in incubator or give up?

    I am really stressed. I think my eggs may have got too hot a few days ago while I waited for an incubator. Now I am torn between throwing out the eggs and worrying that they would have survived, or continuing with incubation and risking them being bad and exploding 😳😳. I can see some veins but...
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    Incubation question.

    I have never incubated eggs before, my ducks have always hatched them themselves. I have 5 call duck eggs that mum lost interest in after two weeks due to her deciding to follow another ducks newly hatched ducklings about. I candled them and they all looked viable. I tried keeping them warm...
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    Discoloration on shells. Help!

    I have never incubated eggs before, my ducks have always hatched them themselves. I have 5 call duck eggs that mum lost interest in after two weeks due to her deciding to follow another ducks newly hatched ducklings about. I candled them and they all looked viable. I tried keeping them warm...
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    Unsteady Ducklings

    I have some 2 week old ducklings, appleyards I think. There are 6 of them but 2 of them were getting left behind by mum and siblings until she finally gave up on them. We have had them inside now for a few days with a brooder to keep warm. At first I thought they had injured their legs, but now...
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    Call Duck leaving eggs

    Hi. I messaged a month or so ago about my little call duck leaving her eggs. We were unable to save them as they had already gone. However she lay another 5 and sat on them. I candled them and they were developing well. She has been sat on them for two weeks. Now another such has hatched some...
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    Can I move clutch of eggs before she sits

    Hi One of my female ducks did lay a clutch of eggs in our hedgerow and was sitting on them for a good two weeks before the eggs mysteriously disappeared. I think crows took them. She has started laying a new clutch inside a hen house, currently has 9 eggs. My issue is she has laid them in a...
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    Help. Call duck left her egg

    Hi. I joined yesterday and some of you were kind enough to identify a duck that had shown up and joined my ducks. Anyway this little call duck has been sitting on an egg for the last three weeks. Occasionally she wasn't very good at it and it kept not being quite underneath her. I candled it...
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    What breed is this?

    Hi. One morning a few months ago I opened my back door to find my ducks had a new friend with them. She has stuck around and is currently sitting in one egg. I have no idea what breed she is. She is quite tiny. Any ideas? 🤷😁
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    Hello

    Hi everyone. I am from Cambridgeshire in the UK. I started off with a male and female duck in Summer 2018. They had ducklings last Summer and I still have two of these. I gained a stray little duck from somewhere a few months ago. She just turned up on my doorstep sat with my other ducks. I also...
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    Injured duckling

    My call duck hatched 9 ducklings last week. This morning, one if them isn't keeping up at all. It keeps having to stop and rest. When it walks, it's whole body twists. I am concerned it will get taken by predators if I leave it out with mum and siblings. I have put it in a separate cage with one...
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