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    Very sick (dying?) Pekin with peritonitis & pneumonia -- crop full/stuck?

    My 2-year-old Pekin duck Cotton developed peritonitis, apparently from internal laying, while I was busy caring for a family medical emergency for a week. Then she stopped walking so I took her to the vet yesterday where they told me she also had a lung infection. She was also pretty underweight...
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    Killed by hawk

    😭😢😭 One of my little flock of 5 (Brownie, a Khaki Campbell) was killed by a hawk today right next to my house and right outside their pen. A HUGE new hawk in the neighborhood who arrived a few days ago. I am heartbroken and so sad I did not watch them more closely. I did get to her before she...
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    Probably peritonitis in a khaki campbell : (

    I'm pretty bummed out -- one of my 2 Khaki Campbells probably has peritonitis (vet visit today) -- she has been laying soft shelled eggs for months, with calcium supplements not helping more than a day or two. In the past few days has seemed visibly uncomfortable like she couldn't get her wings...
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    Hello from Madison WI

    Hi all, I grew up with ducks, chickens, geese, sheep, goats...everything on my parents' hobby farm in rural WI. We ate duck eggs & cooked with them when I was a kid and I still remember how great they were especially for baking. Decades later I am back in WI and just got my first backyard...
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    Baby Appleyard smaller than others, peeping constantly, won't really eat, vent might be distended?

    Hi -- I just brought home 3 1-day-old Appleyards and 3 runners. They're about 3 days old now. One baby Appleyard won't stop peeping, doesn't really eat, and is already only 2/3 the size of the others. She'll peck at greens when I let them swim a little, and looked like she was eating food we put...
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