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  1. BrukeyBrooke

    What kind of bird did I just rescue?

    What a hot mess of circular links and voicemails saying “we’re at capacity”! I guess I start calling again in the morning. Thanks for all the replies!
  2. BrukeyBrooke

    What kind of bird did I just rescue?

    So, how long should I keep it indoors? I can’t stomach the thought of taking it to the creek and then finding it dead tomorrow…
  3. BrukeyBrooke

    What kind of bird did I just rescue?

    I’ll try for another photo later. She (?) is resting and pretty shaken up right now. I agree on the hooded merganser after looking at juvenile photos. Yes, I’ll keep inside while healing, though I assume I won’t be able to add to my flock.
  4. BrukeyBrooke

    What kind of bird did I just rescue?

    I’ve been searching all over online and keep thinking it looks like a a juvenile cormorant, but I’m at a loss.
  5. BrukeyBrooke

    What kind of bird did I just rescue?

    Just rescued this cutie from my backyard. Minor injuries on back and wing joint. Unable to fly at the moment. May have been dropped by a hawk - not sure how else it got into the yard like this. Washed up and sprayed Vetericyn on injuries. I’m in rural Olympia, WA near a creek. Bird is quite...
  6. BrukeyBrooke

    My duck’s feet are disappearing! Help!

    We’re pretty diligent about keeping their bedding clean and/or turned in between changes. So unless there was some type of bullying I didn’t see that caused her to be isolated/stuck for extended times, I doubt ammonia. She hasn’t been at the bottom of the pecking order. But this is a worthy...
  7. BrukeyBrooke

    My duck’s feet are disappearing! Help!

    Will investigate further. Thanks!
  8. BrukeyBrooke

    My duck’s feet are disappearing! Help!

    I’m now leaning toward the frostbite hypothesis. I wish I had a photo of her feet before this happened, but she had swirled colored feet, with some areas being almost pink or lacking color. I now wonder if those lighter areas were more susceptible to the cold. We had snow late again last winter...
  9. BrukeyBrooke

    My duck’s feet are disappearing! Help!

    I had thought of something like that too. I do regularly use our creek water for them, but the kids and I jump in head to toe and have already this year. But wouldn’t we have some sign? And the other birds too?
  10. BrukeyBrooke

    My duck’s feet are disappearing! Help!

    Other birds are fine and this bird hasn’t had bumblefoot to my knowledge. Nothing I had to treat.
  11. BrukeyBrooke

    My duck’s feet are disappearing! Help!

    Fascinating. I’ll keep an eye on things and post back. The really weird thing is that the second foot was completely normal a month ago.
  12. BrukeyBrooke

    My duck’s feet are disappearing! Help!

    All my other birds are fine.
  13. BrukeyBrooke

    My duck’s feet are disappearing! Help!

    Nope. I don’t think we’ve gotten below about 40 recently. I’m in Western WA. Interesting theory though. Any idea how long that takes to manifest?
  14. BrukeyBrooke

    My duck’s feet are disappearing! Help!

    It looks like the webs and nail area are dying and slowly falling off from the rest of the seemingly healthy foot. The web that is “dead” is hard and crusty like a callus but still attached in places.
  15. BrukeyBrooke

    My duck’s feet are disappearing! Help!

    Long story short, this year old ducky girl had a limp a while back, noticed what looked like an old injury where part of her foot was torn. Not bleeding, just a hole and healing. I cleaned it up and bandaged it, kept her penned with my other gimp girly to heal. Now, a month or so later (she’s...
  16. BrukeyBrooke

    Nutritional Deficiency Healing - what now?

    Checked on her again and she was trying push her way through the gate to get out with the flock. So I let her out. She seems to have found her voice again too. She’s not 100%, but she’s exponentially better than she was even this morning. 🤷🏼‍♀️
  17. BrukeyBrooke

    Nutritional Deficiency Healing - what now?

    I initially thought the same, but the timing didn’t quite make sense to me since it started less than 24 hours after she had laid an egg. She usually lays about every two days. Would it start before she was due to lay another egg again?
  18. BrukeyBrooke

    Nutritional Deficiency Healing - what now?

    I should add that I arrived at the nutritional deficiency because her symptoms were so similar to what happened to my favorite duck over a year ago when we switched food. We now supplement their Scratch N Peck with a small amount of cat food daily...
  19. BrukeyBrooke

    Nutritional Deficiency Healing - what now?

    My almost 1.5 yo American Buff girl (Jessie) started laying again roughly a month ago, about every other day. Egg Saturday afternoon. Then Sunday morning, after she rushed outside, she was essentially lame. No one else in the flock has any concerning symptoms. I isolated her and started giving...
  20. BrukeyBrooke

    The case of the missing eggs?

    Me too! Though I hate the idea of having another loner. I was on the fence about how to handle the ducklings mixed with goslings since ducklings are so much smaller. I usually keep them in a brooder inside for longer than goslings. And if any of her goslings hatch, I was going to let momma raise...
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