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    Single Royal Palm

    We have one Royal Palm turkey, about six weeks old. We also have nine three week old ducklings. They all get along well,and the turkey spends a lot of time with the ducks. They share food and water with no problem. I am hoping to keep them all together. I've kept ducks before, but not turkeys...
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    Duck suddenly fighting after years

    Yeah, I guess I will keep them separated for a while. They have just never fought before, and these two have always hung together, so it just seems so weird. We always joke about the khaki Campbells going off somewhere together. Our Pekin, Sonia, is definitely alpha duck, with Duckard the...
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    Duck suddenly fighting after years

    Interesting. The Muscovy being an issue never came to my mind because she has been part of the flock for 9 months now. The Khaki Campbells have usually kind of hung together- often not with the others- so this seems really weird. The Muscovy couldn't care less about any of this, and it just...
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    Duck suddenly fighting after years

    I have six ducks- all female, 2 India Runners, 2 Khaki Campbells, 1 Pekin, and 1 Muscovy. All except the Muscovy have been together since a couple days old, and will be three in March. The Muscovy will be 1 early next year, and has been here since March. There have never been any problems. The...
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    Muscovy keepers share your pics!

    Thanks, We have been astonished by those blue/green eyes. I love that first picture, peeking out from the tree.
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    Muscovy keepers share your pics!

    Nice to see my boy isn't the only one who changed that much. :)
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    Muscovy keepers share your pics!

    Here is my Muscovy boy D'Artagnan. He was an unplanned duck - my son calls him my bonus duck. After we received our 3 Khaki-Campbell's 2 India Runners, and one Pekin - all ducks - in mid March we were set. Then in late May I got a phone call form my son's teacher. They had found a lone duckling...
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    Aerial Mosquito Spraying tonight. Concerns.

    My ducks were fine. I tarped over the exposed hardware cloth areas of their duck hut, turned their pool over, and brought in their feeder. The next morning I went out at 6 and hosed of the yard. Then went out at 7: and cleaned their pool. When I let them out they were fine. Did the same thing...
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    Aerial Mosquito Spraying tonight. Concerns.

    Thank you both. If I had a garage or shed, I would certainly take them inside. Actually I'd just love to have a garage or shed period, but I live in a 90 year old house in a historic district, and If I tried to build one A: The City would tear it down and fine me, and B: the neighbors might...
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    Aerial Mosquito Spraying tonight. Concerns.

    So here in Dallas they have decided on late night aerial spraying to combat mosquitoes (despite the fact there is a lot fo evidence it doesn't work, and it does kill butterflies, bees, etc, but I digress.) I am concerned about our ducks. We have 6 ducks, who live outside. They forage in the yard...
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    Duck lost an eye, what do I do?

    Ruth moved back outside today. She walked right up to the other ducks, and it was like she had never been gone. Her eye looks much better, and it has returned to the correct color. It isn't opened quite as wide as her other eye, and the area right around it still looks a little rough. I never...
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    Duck lost an eye, what do I do?

    Ruth had her follow up appointment today. Just yesterday we started to be able to see the eye a little when putting the drops in, previously we just kind of had to wait for them to soak through the little crack. The eye is now mostly open, but is still very swollen and pretty much blue. Vet says...
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    Duckling imprinting? Chickens and Ducks? Peafowl and ducks?!?

    Well in March we received 6 ducklings in the mail from Metzer Farms, all girls. A Pekin, Sonia; a Black India Runner Duck, Daffy; a Chocolate India Runner Duck, Ruth; and Three Khaki Campbells, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. My wife and I opened the box, and my wife, son, and I were all careful to...
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    Duck lost an eye, what do I do?

    Ruth's eye doesn't really look all that different to me since we started treatment, but I'm hopeful. She's eating and drinking well, and quite vocal (she's always been one of the more vocal ducks). She certainly does NOT like having her eye drops done. Her eye is so swollen shut we can't see...
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    Duck lost an eye, what do I do?

    Most of these past three months have been wonderful. Just this last bit with smashed duck hut, injured duck, injured self and wife while trying to rescue docks, etc. That stuff i could have lived without. :) I'm loving having ducks. It just makes me happy to see them forage, and splash in their...
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    Duck lost an eye, what do I do?

    Turns out Ruth's eyelid is badly ripped, and swollen, and her eye is bruised, injured, and sightless at present, but the globe is still intact. She has moved inside into our big Dog Crate (it was big enough to house 6 ducklings at 6 weeks old) and we have Tobramycin Ophtalmic Solution to give...
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    Duck lost an eye, what do I do?

    Thanks, We are taking her in to see a vet in about 45 minutes. Unfortunately we do not have any Avian vets anywhere really near us, but our local vet used to have a rural practice where she treated Ducks, and Chickens, so even though she is now a small animal specialist, I know some neighbors...
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