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    Dispatching a duck for the first time (WARNING: graphic)

    I rescued a Pekin ducking a couple of years ago. She put on a lot of weight very quickly, and once mature, wasn't able to walk normally -- it seemed like she just couldn't support her weight very well. She didn't forage, or groom herself: she'd increasingly just eat and lie on the ground. I have...
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    Duck with labored breathing

    I've got a two-year-old Swedish blue duck that's having some sort of respiratory problem. Her breathing is very labored: you can see her body contract when she exhales, especially when she's laying down, and she opens and closes her mouth slightly with every breath. It's been going on nearly two...
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    Adding ducks to an established flock

    I rescued two young drakes a few years ago. Last fall, one of them passed away, and I adopted four laying females. After keeping the drake (a Pekin) in an adjacent yard for a couple of weeks, I put him in with the females (Cayugas and a Swedish Blue). It took another week or two before they...
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    Duckling wing development and panting

    We recently rescued a couple of Pekin ducklings, and I have some concerns about their development. They came to us at two or three weeks old, and we have no idea how they'd been cared for or fed (they were purchased from a local farm supply by a young woman who wanted them as pets, but didn't...
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    Three eggs in one day?

    I posted here recently about a one-year old Cayuga female with a badly injured ankle. I've been trying to nurse her back to health for about a week and a half; for the first few days after the injury, she continued laying normally, then stopped. I got one small egg (with a slightly pitted shell)...
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    Leg injury

    I’ve got a one year old Cayuga female that appears to have a badly injured right leg. I found her outside the enclosure a few days ago, so I suspect she may have tried to fly over the fence and gotten tangled up. She may have also been injured while mating with our Pekin drake. There are no...
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    Bald, irritated patches

    This is our first spring with a drake and females. I noticed today that all four of our females have significant bald, irritated patches of skin on their backs, beneath their wings. My first thought is that they're a result of aggressive mating, especially because the Swedish Blue, who is the...
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    • aggressive mating balding skin wet feather
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    Breed identification

    Can anyone tell me what breed this duck might be? We recently adopted her along with a few others, and she's the only one I can't identify. She looks like an older Cayuga, maybe, that's started to go white?
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    Limping duck

    We adopted two ducklings last spring that turned out to be drakes. We lost one a few weeks ago, and we adopted four young females that I believe were hatched this spring. We noticed yesterday that one of the new females (second from the right in the photo) appears to be sick or injured: she's...
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    • duck injury leg
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