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Reposting from another thread: Okay, you need to know that when we suggest yeast, it's not baking yeast, not winemaking yeast. It's brewer's yeast - a nutritional supplement. And generally, people use 1 tablespoon of brewer's yeast per cup of food. I think the duckling may have a B...

careful not to let the duckling get in the water too soon. They don't have the right feathers and I lost some duckling that way. Also supplement with niacin, ducks tend to have weak legs and it's important to supplement with that.

It could be a niacin deficiency. I'm not an expert with ducks but I've had ducklings a few times and they always seem to have weak legs. The problem has been solved after giving them niacin for a couple of weeks if treated early enough. There are threads here on that topic and suggestions on the...

Thanks for your responses everyone, makes me feel like I'm not crazy to know it's happened to other people. As an experiment, I stopped eating them for a week and I tried again yesterday, scrambled with a tortilla. And I got so sick that I'm not sure if I want to experiment again. And it seems...

A few years ago I got an food intolerance test that said that I was intolerant to chicken eggs but duck eggs were ok. That's when I decided to start raising ducks. I've had muskovy ducks for a few years now and I've been eating their eggs without any problems. Recently though, I notice that I...

@DucksAndGardens, yes fencing a large area is a long term plan that i think may work well. But I'm not able to do that just yet so I'm looking for a more inmediate solution. Iappreciate everyones comments. thank you very much!

Thank you Hannah this is helpful. I do steal my girl's eggs and feel bad about it every time. But I have some fake ceramic eggs that look just like the real thing that I live in their nest instead. Just curious, what do you do when your girls go broody? do you let them sit or do you take them...

Thank you amiga. It was fun at the begining, I only had two and I could see where there were going. But now i have more and they are getting more and more clever... I don't want to keep them locked all the time. I have the luxury to live in Hawaii where there are no predators so they can be out...

Has anyone figuired out how to keep free range backyard muscovy ducks without having to go on an egg/duck hunt every day? I'm keeping 9 muskovys mostly for the eggs. 7 females and 2 males. Right now I lock them in their coop at night and let them out in the morning, Some females lay their eggs...

Thank you Eggcessive. What I'm feeding all my ducks and chickens is called Home Grown all purpose wild game feed. I was told at the feed store that this would be ok for both types of birds. It has less calcium thought. I do have oyster shells available but I don't see them eating them as...

I have a similar question. I've had muskovy ducks and australorb chickens in the same pen for a while now and I was feeding all of them layer feed with no problems. Now I have some younger ducks in there ( 2months) and i'm confused about how to feed them. I switched to an all purpose food but...

oh great. Thank you so much. This is a relieve!

Yes contracting her muscles. You don't think this is a sign of an egg stuck in there?

Something else I forgot to say is that when shes out and walking her but is hight up and it's doing this "sucking" motion, looks like she's tightening her butt muscles. Well in fact, she's doing that all the time. I've try to feel her vent when she's on the nest and the same action is going on.

Thanks. I've never had a broody chicken before. is this how they act?

Hello, please help me. My chicken is acting very strange and i can't figure out what she has. She is a young Australorb maybe less than a year and a half. Up untill now she's been pretty normal and laying eggs. A couple of days ago I noticed that she hasn't been leaving her nest box and I...

Hello, please help me. My chicken is acting very strange and i can't figure out what she has. She is a young Australorb maybe less than a year and a half. Up untill now she's been pretty normal and laying eggs. A couple of days ago I noticed that she hasn't been leaving her nest box and I...