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Please help figuring best course of action for ducks laying softshell eggs!Thoughts on Calcium supplementation?
I have 2 lady ducks laying eggs with soft shells. I messed up and forgot to put their oyster shells out when the started laying this winter..I had a duck get injured over the holiays that has been needing daily care and medication and when I started getting eggs I didnt even think about it..I am... -
Most effective application method for treating DUCKS for Northern Fowl mites and Red Poultry mites?
Most information and discussions about this revolve around chickens. Ducks have such dense waterproof feathers and different bathing, preening and foraging habits, so I am specifically asking for duck information from people who have experience treating ducks. My main question is about the... -
Minor foot infection with scab not healing
One of my girls got a minor cut on her foot in the end of February, it became slightly inflamed but no black. I treated it with polysporin, preparation H and a neoprene duck shoe changed before bed every night for 3 weeks. Pretty much all of the swelling went down and and the scab was super tiny...- Angelove
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Aggressive duckling picking feathers, and biting toenails?
I have 3 welsh harlequin female ducklings (sexed by Metzer). One of the ducklings is very picky and kind of aggressive. She will pick and bite at anything and everything including myself and her sisters. It has stopped being cute and is beginning to hurt me and the other 2.. I have been... -
Balancing protein levels?
Thanks in advance for considering my infinite number of questions... I am raising my ducks for pets/eggs, not meat production, which I understand means that by week 3 they should be eating food that is 15-16% protein. David Holderread recommends you add 5% oats by volume each week until they are... -
Too much calcium in nutritional/brewers yeast for ducklings?
I am currently supplementing my ducklings with Niacin with the BVS poultry pack that was sent with them from Metzer. I would like to begin mixing niacin into their food and was considering using human grade brewers yeast or nutritional yeast. All of these products list calcium in mg or... -
Ducklings eating pine shavings
I have been keeping my 1.5 week old ducklings since they arrived on nonslip shelf liner and/or towels so that they did not eat their bedding. I decided to try to switch them over to pine shavings today because, unless I clean it 3x daily, it is pretty gross. As soon as I put them in the new... -
Humidity to high in brooder, please advise.
I am a new duck mom, raising my first set of ducklings, and I have a question about humidity in their environment... I have my lights as far away from their water as possible (only shinning in a small corner on the opposite side, which seems comfortable to them). And have scaled down to a 75...