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Please help figuring best course of action for ducks laying softshell eggs!Thoughts on Calcium supplementation?
Any replies to my post above about remedying softshell eggs would be greatly appreciated🙏🏼 -
Please help figuring best course of action for ducks laying softshell eggs!Thoughts on Calcium supplementation?
I have been supplementing and providing more calcium for almost two weeks now and have still not been able to get them right..how long would it be expected for the supplementation to correct the issue? -
Please help figuring best course of action for ducks laying softshell eggs!Thoughts on Calcium supplementation?
I have 2 lady ducks laying eggs with soft shells. I messed up and forgot to put their oyster shells out when the started laying this winter..I had a duck get injured over the holiays that has been needing daily care and medication and when I started getting eggs I didnt even think about it..I am... -
Most effective application method for treating DUCKS for Northern Fowl mites and Red Poultry mites?
I have been diligently sealing up and double bagging the bedding I have been removing from their house and taking it to the dump. I think I am even more uncomfortable with ivermectin than permethrin, and if I cant get rid of these guys with the garlic spray, I think I will go that route..Im... -
Most effective application method for treating DUCKS for Northern Fowl mites and Red Poultry mites?
Thanks for pointing me back to this thread, I read it the other day and in all of my researching forgot the part about the skin reaction to the monterey garden spray and somehow missed the part about that product and also elector psp un-waterproofing the ducks, which I have done in the past with... -
Most effective application method for treating DUCKS for Northern Fowl mites and Red Poultry mites?
Ideas for getting product past the feathers? -
Most effective application method for treating DUCKS for Northern Fowl mites and Red Poultry mites?
Thanks for your advice!..Sinosad is the main ingredient in elector PSP that is approved for use on chickens. Neem oil (and also soap) will unfortunately un-water proof waterfowl. It may work in the coop😊 but will also degrade the silicone caulking that seals up the gaps. -
Most effective application method for treating DUCKS for Northern Fowl mites and Red Poultry mites?
Most information and discussions about this revolve around chickens. Ducks have such dense waterproof feathers and different bathing, preening and foraging habits, so I am specifically asking for duck information from people who have experience treating ducks. My main question is about the... -
Minor foot infection with scab not healing
Thank you for the advice, do you think a half hour soak will do? Also, what is the best way to flush the wound?- Angelove
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Minor foot infection with scab not healing
One of my girls got a minor cut on her foot in the end of February, it became slightly inflamed but no black. I treated it with polysporin, preparation H and a neoprene duck shoe changed before bed every night for 3 weeks. Pretty much all of the swelling went down and and the scab was super tiny...- Angelove
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Aggressive duckling picking feathers, and biting toenails?
They are compressed pine shaving pellets like used in horse stalls, when they touch moisture they disintegrate into shavings..I feel like it would be an unlikely coincidence for their to be a pulled out bloody feather on the floor and missing toenails they same day and be unrelated..I read a... -
Aggressive duckling picking feathers, and biting toenails?
I have 3 welsh harlequin female ducklings (sexed by Metzer). One of the ducklings is very picky and kind of aggressive. She will pick and bite at anything and everything including myself and her sisters. It has stopped being cute and is beginning to hurt me and the other 2.. I have been... -
Balancing protein levels?
Non GMO is important to me, what type of feed do you use?...After having to do so much math, I am going to try to get a duck specific feed. -
Ducklings eating pine shavings
Thank you❣️...I feel so much better about them rooting around in it and may try to change their bedding type too. -
Balancing protein levels?
Thanks in advance for considering my infinite number of questions... I am raising my ducks for pets/eggs, not meat production, which I understand means that by week 3 they should be eating food that is 15-16% protein. David Holderread recommends you add 5% oats by volume each week until they are... -
Too much calcium in nutritional/brewers yeast for ducklings?
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Ducklings Feet Going Inward - Niacin?
I am currently dosing my 1.5 week old ducklings with B-Complex by using a 1 ml syringe and putting a little bit on the front part of their tongue, once I have their mouth open, so that they can swallow it themselves. I hold their mouths closed after and tip their heads back a little to encourage... -
Is my duckling blind?
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Too much calcium in nutritional/brewers yeast for ducklings?
I am currently supplementing my ducklings with Niacin with the BVS poultry pack that was sent with them from Metzer. I would like to begin mixing niacin into their food and was considering using human grade brewers yeast or nutritional yeast. All of these products list calcium in mg or...