The swans are owned by the city, and since the city feeds the swans I guess people just think it's a good place to dump their birds there are probably around 60-80 dumped domestic ducks and a few geese there
Took a trip to Lake Morton in Lakeland FL today with my little brother and saw these awesome looking mule ducks!! Never have seen mules before so I thought I'd share
She was very eager to get out of her cage so I just put her back out with the ducks for the night. I'll keep weighing her for a few days but she seems to be doing great. Not sure what this was, both cases were very quick to get pretty bad and very quick to recover. I went out and completely...
A few hours after tube feeding her yesterday I looked at her and noticed a little bit of dribble on her chest so it seemed like she puked up just a little bit of the tube feed. I didn't give her another feed at night because I did see her poking around in the food bowl, but it didn't go down at...
She seems to be doing about the same, still not eating so i tube fed her again and added some vitamins to it. Luckily she completely trusts me so she is much easier than the other ducks to tube feed and check on she just Let's me grab her every time. I can see from her poops the charcoal worked...
She is always so easy to break in the past I just Destroy her nest and take whatever eggs there are and the next day she is better, this week has been VERY different lol
I have NEVER dealt with a duck so broody in my 4 years of having ducks!! Usually they are somewhat easy to break, Puffin is the sweetest little duck who loves head and Bill rubs but she has turned into a lil demon!! I've been trying to break her all week!!
So I just weighed her and she is only 3.6 lbs. I weighed her just 2 weeks ago and she was 5.4 lbs which is around her normal weight. She is drinking but not eating so I think I will tube feed her tonight because she is never this light unless she hasn't been eating for awhile. I'll put a wee bit...
Sooo, Karen has been doing fine for awhile now. Yesterday all ducks seemed to be acting completely normal out foraging, I put them away around 11 so they only got a few hours out of the run because my family went on a kayak trip yesterday, when I got back last night I peeked into the coop and...
So update tonight, she was 3.6 lbs this morning but I put her out with the other ducks and for the first time she stuck with the ducks all day foraging with them so that was great to see!! I brought her in just now and weighed her in at 4 lbs!! I'm keeping her inside for monitoring tonight but...
When they're plumped out my ducks are all around 5 lbs, when I rescued Karen she was super skinny much skinnier than she is now and had all her feathers ripped out from the feral Drake's. I'm definitely going to keep monitoring her until she gets back to that 5 lb mark
I brought her back in and weighed her in at 3.6 lbs, so I went ahead and put a few good sized handfuls of soldier fly worms in her food bowl to encourage her to eat. She didn't eat right away but I just checked her again and a good amount of them were gone and I weighed her in at 3.8 lbs. Good...
I didn't hear anything when listening to her chest, but she had a normal sounding hiss this morning so I let her out with the other ducks and for rhe first time she ran right over to the pool and jumped in to take a bath so that's good. She's been hanging out with the other ducks all day I'll...
So the gurgle noise when she hisses at me came back. I put some mealworms in the water to encourage her to drink and as soon as she drank the sound went away, but after about an hour it came back. Not sure what it is.
Yes it is on the way but I think it will still take awhile. Not sure if that sound was a fluke, she seems like she isn't making that sound anymore. I just weighed her in at 4 lbs so she is steadily gaining .2 lbs every day