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    Nasty brooding ducks, part 2

    UPDATE: Day 5 after the drake attack. Healing well. Daily baths (or the house smells like a barn yard). It is a fiesty little duck with a 'tude for sure. Hissed at my daughter in law who was watching her in the bathtub while i cleaned her quarters. Than you all for your help and comments.
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    Nasty brooding ducks, part 2

    I will take it off. She is resting peacefully. Will need to find a "lid" for playpen (cats) before we leave for fireworks
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    Nasty brooding ducks, part 2

    I know. I feel so bad knowing i am 100% at fault. I just didnt think beesby could be so savage. But shes bandaged, in the play pen resting. I imagine i will be keeping her inside for about a week (or more) until she's healed.
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    Nasty brooding ducks, part 2

    She is a little more than a month old. While healing, she will live in the house inside an old play pen. Once she is healed, i will keep her and mama in the old duck yard, mean aunys and drake in the new one. Not sure what i will do at night
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    Nasty brooding ducks, part 2

    Im ready to toss the two nasty aunts and daddy duck into the frigging stew pot. I gave away my ducklings, keeping the all white one. All was going well until yesterday when i noticed the drake chasing the bany (little over one month old). This what i found this morning: We have no vets...
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    Broody Nasty Ducks

    I have read, but never thought that MY ducks could be such nasty little biddies until they went broody. I currently am the only person in the house that will eat duck eggs, so wasnt paying much attention. All three laid nests and because of personal issues I just let them sit. How many chicks...
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    Happy Ducks

    First bath in WEEKS. Temps are in the mid 40s, snow is gone in sunny areas, she who feeds the ducks decided to treat them. Oh happy happy ducks.
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    Topic of the Week - Feeding Ducks

    Our local ranch supply sells Nutrena brand feeds. I buy the specific duck feed or when out, the all flock feed. For snacks its a package of peas or peas and carrots and soldier worms. I need to up the game for winter. They are working hard at foraging, but not sure what they are finding...
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    Mallards laying in fall?

    I just found this under the ramp to the deck. Ducktard Mallard has her stash here. I hate it when i have to destroy all those eggs. Subdivision (even though we are "rural" on 2 acre mobile home lots, 5 ducks is the max. Fall has not slowed the little bitty down at all.
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    Suggestions for dealing with my duck biting me

    I had a very serious talk with my anaconda when he was a juvenile deliquent. We discussed Ozzy Osbourne.
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    Mallards laying in fall?

    A few weeks back i found the nest my mallard was tending under meath the deck. She had like 15 eggs in it. I destroyed as I do NOT want more than my 5 ducks. She quit laying. I was consistently getting 2 eggs a day from my other two ducks. Yesterday i made sure i moved all the shavings to...
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    Duckies Favorite Treats?!

    Dried meal worms is my little darlings absolute favorite. Now that mother natures wheel has turned, foraging has little or no nutrition. Love this thread as it gave me some ideas beyond peas and meal worms.
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    Need Help With Lowering Protein!!

    My question: why lower the protien? How can you tell if they are getting too much?
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    State to State move with flock

    I hope to hear more. I do plan on moving 2 states east at some point in my little darlings life span. Told my kids must be a duck friendly/allowable property. I would like to hear on HOW you moved the ducks on a 12 hour trip.
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    Ductor Mallard and her nest of eggs

    Well I did it. Don't think she has noticed as i did when she came out to eat and bath. She was upset that i shut down the summer pool. Imagine I will hear her yelling soon. She reminds me of Ed Sullivan (dating myself) as she scrunches down her neck and squacks.
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    Ductor Mallard and her nest of eggs

    Mallard (domestic) nest Question here. Please note i am a wussy when it comes to upsetting my ducks. Tried. Can't do it. With that said: How upset do they get when the nest is messed with? I am tempted to go out this evening with a marker, put a mark on the existing eggs so i can collect...
  17. J

    Ivermectin and ignorance

    I'm a high school graduate. No college etc. How is it I understand that a virus can mutate at will *thus why we don't have a cure for the common cold*. Why is it that I understand that medicines produced exclusively for livestock is more likely to kill a human than a vaccine? I'm wondering if...
  18. J

    Do layers have warm bills?

    I posted a picture of my darling with bumble foot last night. When putting her to bed I noticed her bill was warm. I immediately thought oh no the infection. This morning when letting them out of their house I checked to see how warm each of the 5 ducks' bills were. 3 felt normal, but the...
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    When do drakes need to be separated and how do I choose who stays?

    I feel your pain. I actually had a home for my a$$hole drake but pulled out ... was like a drug deal where I show up with the duck in a town 2 hours from here in the middle of the desert. But ... your situation is much more complicated. Find homes asap. And only keep 1. Your hens will...
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    Little Miss Bumblefoot

    Little miss bumblefoot. Will see if the "bandage" lasts the night. Surely I will get better at wrapping it. The rest of the Starkey Hill Crew are NOT happy about losing the swingers club hot tub or the spa's mud bath. Mud bath is gone until the bumblefoot is healed. She will stay in the...
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