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All ducks eggs died before hatching..help?
Thanks for the article, I'll be sure to read it! And not really, they were about 1 year old when they had first brood and now they're 3, she picked a new nesting spot, but that's all -
All ducks eggs died before hatching..help?
My female duck enjoys sitting on eggs and hatching her own brood, I wouldn't even be hatching eggs if she didn't want them..I appreciate the incubator recemondation tho :) -
All ducks eggs died before hatching..help?
Last egg finally got kicked out...was another fully formed baby with feathers, but it was a rotted egg and baby was dead..please, if anyone knows how I can prevent this from happening again let me know :( -
All ducks eggs died before hatching..help?
I've got a pair of Welsh Harlequins, and they've had a successful brood before, but this time every single one of her eggs has started dying. They all stopped developing either right before getting feathers or right after, but she still sat on them until they rotted to the point of breaking open... -
Swollen foot on duck, can't bare weight
@Miss Lydia Davies checkup went great, his foot seems to be all better. Got a calcium deposit and a slight limp still, but if you didn't know he had a broken foot before you wouldn't even notice the limp. He's such a trooper -
Swollen foot on duck, can't bare weight
@Miss Lydia I believe it was the puppies trying to play with him, that's the only thing I could think of that would cause this. He's doing good, walking around and happy for the pain meds I suppose haha. He's a trooper :) -
Swollen foot on duck, can't bare weight
I forgot to post my update sorry! Dave did in fact break his foot, And he now has a little duck "cast" or splint on it, he goes back into the vet on the 17th for a check up. I'll be sure to post an update then too @Miss Lydia -
Swollen foot on duck, can't bare weight
I couldn't see anything in the cut when I looked last night, and I check it when I do the Epson salt baths and still nothing. I plan on taking him to the vet tomorrow hopefully. Is it possible for ducks to sprain their ankles? We've got puppies that don't usually ever bother the ducks but... -
Swollen foot on duck, can't bare weight
One of my ducks, dave, couldnt even walk in for the night yesterday. His foot was extremely swollen, had a little cut on the bottom. I'm assuming it got infected ? But it swelled up so fast, the cut was still bleeding a little, that could it be something else? He can't bare weight on it and he's... -
baby duck with lots of problems
I bet the pinkish one is cool to have though! Is it like light pink or darker? The blue egg we got is like a mix between green and blue, it's pretty bright colored not a dark color. It's so cool that they lay colorful eggs though. -
baby duck with lots of problems
My birds and I have been okay i suppose. It's not been the happiest winter with my favorite girl dying but the others are doing well it seems. The babies are getting big, I suppose I shouldnt call them babies anymore now that they're starting to lay but eh whatever haha. Dave and Lady are doing... -
baby duck with lots of problems
One of my Easter Eggers finally laid an egg last night! It's small obviously but it's blue!! I've heard that some lay regular eggs so I was hoping it would be a colorful one and it is. I'm so excited to see what the other one lays now. -
baby duck with lots of problems
Merry Christmas from my birdies and I to you all! I hope you all had wonderful holidays this year. Our chickens and little ones got out today as well, I stood out there for about two hours before the hawk started flying around but they were out for a while which was nice for them! -
baby duck with lots of problems
Pulled up today from getting back from the horses and under our Blue Spruce tree was a huge pile of white feathers. I freaked and ran inside and out to the backyard because we left Dave and Lady out this morning, I finally found them by the chicken coop but my heart dropped when I saw that pile... -
baby duck with lots of problems
It's very illegal to kill/harm any bird of prey, I don't know if I could go that road even if it wasn't illegal though, I have a hard time with killing things -
baby duck with lots of problems
Thanks all, losing her was very hard because she was such a sweet bird. And yeah @tomynoks I am thinking about doing that because the Cooper was sitting on our fence the other day looking down on our ducks who were attempting to hide under some brush. Luckily we were outside when he flew in... -
Sick Chicken, maybe posion?
We have no way of refrigerating her body..we decided to just bury her instead. We have a closed off side yard so none of the other animals can get to her body..that's the resting place for many old pets. If another one does fall ill and dies we will definitely send her for a necropsy but didn't...- GarnerZoo
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baby duck with lots of problems
We have no idea what she got into..we gave the other chickens electrolyte water and sprinkled the charcoal on top of their food for precautions though. I'm going to miss her dearly..she was the one who would give us hugs and she gave me one last night before she died, I think she knew.. -
Sick Chicken, maybe posion?
Thanks all for the replies and help, she died shortly after I responded last night. I wasn't there when she died but I was told she just laid her head down, closed her eyes, and stopped breathing..thanks again though..- GarnerZoo
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