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I have never raised muscovy before so I'm not sure if I should tackle this issue the same way as regular ducks. I have 2 month and a half old muscovy duckies. One has been behaving unusually, sitting away from the flock and being slow. I have been feeding the 2 young ones duckling grower and...

Hey guys, so almost 24 hours later and blobby duckling is still alive. It is running around like crazy like a normal duckling, a little wobbly so it may have neurological issues, but ill take that as it comes.. Its still got the blob on the back of its head however the skin appears to have...

Not a chance! All the parents are mixed breed ducks with no history of cresting. And they are all unrelated, so there in no inbreeding.

I agree too Miss Lydia. I leave my eggs under my ducks as much as possible, but our chooks are fiends when it comes to tearing up duck nests =S This incubator batch was a low hatch rate, with more then 50% of eggs not hatching. I have had 3 hatch successfully and 1 mushy duckling. So I think...

I know! Im in Australia, and the time difference between here and America sucks! its still in the incubator and i have propped it up in some tissues so it cant damage the head blob. The potential parents are all mixed breed ducks, but none of them are related, so inbreeding defects arent an...

Hi, I know this is a super late post, but I have just had a duckling hatch with EXACTLY this condition, what did you do, what happened to your duckling did it end up dieing from the deformity? Any info would be amazing! Even if I have to put the poor duckie down, its better then it suffering.

Hi guys, emergency help needed and graphic pictures ahead. I have had a duckling just hatch that has what appears to be a protruding fluid filled sack out the back of its head. Its still alive, what is going on and what can I do to help it. Or should I just put it out of its misery. Help please! !

Hi This is just a question, as I am contemplating what I can do with the extra space in my yard. Does anyone know what would happen if you kept a flock of JUST roosters, with zero contact with chickens at all. Would it be a violent disaster, or would it be possible to create a "sanctuary home"...

I have hatched a few ducks in the past and every so often I notice something about them that I think is different or unusual. Almost every time I ignore it, it turns into an issue or problem. So Im just double checking now for this little duckie. It just hatched and its holding one of its wings...

Hi Duck eggs usually take around 28 days to hatch, how ever Muscovy eggs take a little longer. So it depends what breed you have. Usually if ducks have just started laying, the first few eggs wont be fertile. I got a male and a female of the same age and the female started laying at around 6...

It can walk again just fine just it doesnt have open access. I keep it in a box when im upstairs and its got its own private coop when its downstairs. Overnight its eaten all its food so it must have been hungry. There were no lunps in its runny poos so i cant for the life of me work out what it...

It possibly could have eaten something. But you know what. I was holding it in my hands because it had its eyes closed and couldnt peep and could barely breath. I thought it was about to pass. But it didnt. Throughout The day it did a couple of really bad looking poos. Runny and bright orange...

Hi Miss Lydia, thanks for the reply. Im not sure of the brand of the dust, but im from Australia so the brand would be completely different to the ones available in America. It is an all purpose dust for ducks and chooks. The duckling didn't have the dust on it for more then a few hours as it...

All my female ducks get extremely noisy, especially when they are sitting and get off the nest for some food/water. One in particular, Savanna, who is a runner mix honks instead of quacks. When she gets off the nest she runs around the yard in a panic honking loudly and shes so worked up that...

I have a duckling that I dont think is going to make it. It hatched under a chicken and we left it with the chook until we found out the chook had mites. We dusted the flock and put a little on the duckling and gave it a swim and it now appears to be mite free. This was a few days ago and...

I live in an extremely hot an humid environment and my ducks eggs under a female usually take a bit longer then the usual 28 days (They are not muscovies). So it could take even longer in a cold environment. In the incubator, I once had 1 egg hatch a week and a half after it was supposed to...

HAHAH PooperPeeperEaters is great! My partner says that all ducklings do is poop, peep, peck and preen!

Just a silly little thread wondering if anyone else calls their ducklings "Peepers" and a request for peeper photos!!

I have all mixed breed ducks, two Runner cross, one Sweedish Black cross and one Kahki Campbell cross. The two runner girls are actually the noisiest, one of them quacks loudly and one of them kind of has a honking quack, but theyre both quite loud. The Sweedish black is a little loud and the...