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    UNRESPONSIVE DUCKLING - Now resolved

    8-9 day old duckling can't hold it's head upright and is totally unresponsive. It was isolated from the other 3. I can feel it breathing. Any way to save it? UPDATE: Can now sometimes hold up it's head, it's now peeping and reacting when I pick it up. It is constipated though and when I've...
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    Duck has toe spur cant walk help appreciated

    One of my ducks wasn’t walking this morning so I separated her and examined her feet, this one has something growing out of the toe, and the other one I think is fine. I can’t afford to take her to a vet, is there anything aside from temporary isolation(to let her recover) that I can do for her?
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    Sunken eye, mint poop, and neck issues in duck

    Sunday evening one of my hens(4 month old runner) was having trouble holding up her head so I brought her inside. Some feathers on her neck were missing but were mostly matted down. There was slight evidence of a scratch due to a hint of blood but I wasn’t able to find it. She’s been improving...
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    Pekin hen's ear bleeding

    My 5 month old pekin hen's ear was bleeding, from what I can tell she's fine otherwise. Is this something I should be worried about or should I let her be?
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    Non-life-threatening head wound

    My 4 1/2 month old drake got a nasty gash on the top of his head one evening a couple weeks ago, I kept him in a cage inside his flock's pen so he would be safe from being re-injured(and to keep him away from the mud). After a few days I let him rejoin the flock and his injury didn't get any...
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    Duckling hatched with twisted foot

    One of my ducklings hatched during the night and it's left foot is twisted inward. Will this correct itself or is it a birth defect I need to be worried about?
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    Duckling stuck?

    It's my first time hatching and the first duck has zipped but only freed it's head and wings. It can't seem to free it's legs and I'm unsure whether I should intervene or let it work it out on it's own. It's only been at it for an hour at most, but it's trying so hard to get out... Nevermind, it...
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    Sudden Lameness in 8 Week Ducks

    I have some mature drakes and they ganged up on a couple of my 8-week old ducks, as far as I know it was only two and we intervened as soon as we noticed. One(a runner) had two drakes on it and the other(pekin) only had one. Neither could walk. I carried them back to their pen and the Pekin was...
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    Don't know hatch date?

    I had to move my duck's nest and ended up incubating her twelve eggs... I candled them and all seem to be alive(this is my first time incubating), I was thinking they had two weeks left but forgot I had tried to guess the time they would hatch and added some extra time, but based on that they...
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    Help!

    My duck(1y Indian Runner) made a nest on the edge of the ditch that runs past our house and our landlords are digging it out today. I had to move the eggs and i don't know how to get my duck to go broody on it again, and if that's not possible, how should I set up a homemade incubator until I...
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    Mature Drake and immature hen?

    My dominant drake(Lawerence) started mounting my other mature drake(Jimmy Dean) occasionally a couple weeks ago. I currently have a major imbalance in hen-drake ratio with it being 1:5(three of them are immature; 2 are her siblings), and Lawerence seems to have just realized Silvia(10 week old...
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    How old are ducklings when they start to affect a flock ratio?

    I have 12 unsexed ducklings(runner mixes) I'm planning on using to balance out my hen to drake ratio, (1 hen to 3 drakes is quite backwards). Their two weeks old and with my hen, my drakes are in their own pen. Once they get their voices I'll move the drakes to be with the other drakes(as I'll...
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    Help! My duckling swallowed a string!

    This is my second time brooding ducklings and I've taken to using old towels, some with strings, as the flooring(easy to clean). With my first brood of ducklings, they'd peck at it but not eat the loose strings. I checked on my new brood and saw the string resting against a duckling's leg and I...
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    Can I lose my bond with my duck?

    I bought four day old runner ducklings from a hatchery during the lockdown and raised them. A little while ago three of them were snatched by a predator. I brought the last duck(about seven weeks now) inside so that it wouldn't be alone and bought some more ducks a couple days after(a hen, and...
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    New Ducks, New Issues, any ideas?

    I lost 3 of my 4-duck flock a couple days ago to a predator and bought some new ducks that were being rehomed(I'm pretty sure their all runner mixes), a momma hen with her twelve ducklings(that are a week old) and her boyfriend(he's definitely part runner). However, the people who were rehoming...
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    ***HELP*** Neck Wound!!!

    I had four 6 week old Indian Runners this morning. I let them out and they went swimming in the creek that runs across the front of our yard. like usual. An hour or so later one of them was in the front yard. They usually are together, so that was the first red flag. I went outside to look for...
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    Midget-Duck-Syndrome?

    I'm raising ducks for the first time this summer and bought 4 Indian Runners that are now five weeks old. I believe they're all healthy. One is about half the size of the other three, all of which have started getting feathers. The little one is usually trailing behind when the other three are...
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