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    Winter Entertainment for Ducks?

    I am not sure how it started but cat food is our ducks favorite treat. I take a quart gatorade bottle with two dime sized holes cut halfway up, one on each side, when they roll it they get treats. I fill it with 2/3 feed pellets 1/3 cat food, toss it in their winter run and watch em go. After...
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    Bumblefoot-did I do this right?

    I should add that we did the epsom salts and iodine treatment every day for 5 days. We noticed improvement after 3 days and let them back to free range after a week
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    Bumblefoot-did I do this right?

    Others on here know far more than i about bumblefoot but i have had one duck that we caught early after noticing her limping for a couple days. After wrapping in a towel i held her with her feet in 5gal bucket epsom salt for 10 minutes or so, then wife dried her feet and liberally applied...
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    how long to keep the pool going ??

    I think having straw available on the ground is the most important thing to help prevent frostbite on their feet when outside. Our ducks will usually stay out til dark even in cold weather unless i put them in, of course they are in and out all day long.
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    how long to keep the pool going ??

    We live in northern maine, our pekins and anconas are let out every day temps hit 5 degrees F. We have a nice setup with a brook 150ft behind house, they free range til brook starts freezing then get a big run until spring. Ducks house is old ice fishing shack about 8 ft out from cellar door and...
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    Newbie Question: Keeping Ducks w/ Slow Moving Creek??

    We've had pekin and ancona for 5 years and have only lost one to a predator, i'm sure our duck friendly german shepherd has something to do with this along with them being locked up every night. We live in northern maine so they're kept in the run from late fall til late spring when the brook...
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    Newbie Question: Keeping Ducks w/ Slow Moving Creek??

    Hi, we have had ducks for on property with a brook behind our house for years. 300 ft along water is lawn and trees with all underbrush kept cleared out - all else is woods. I am relatively new to the internet so bear with me,this is my first response to anyone and i'll figure out pictures...
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