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    Question about living space for ducks

    Hello,and first of all sorry for my not good English language.I have very large yard-exellent for daily duck living.But because of cold winter weather and predators-it is needed the flock to live at their duck house for the nights.The problem is that space in the duck house is not quite...
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    Female duck-wound on her back-how to treat?

    I have never used pine shavings for bedding and I am afraid that the ducks can eat them.But I have wheat straw and can use it for bedding.I usually begin to use bedding at the 20-30 november every year.Now I think that will be too hot for the other birds with bedding,but I will reconsider and if...
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    Female duck-wound on her back-how to treat?

    Thanks for all answers!I have cleaned the wound with isotonic saline 0.9% NaCl.The wound is on the end of the wing.As I said she is limping,because she have suffered botulism before 3-4years and now uses wings for support and keeping ballance-so the ends of her wings are heavily scrapped.The...
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    Female duck-wound on her back-how to treat?

    Update of the topic.There is not a wound on her back.When I cleaned and reviewed strictly the wound-there is only clotted blood on her back, which was flowed from her wing.She uses wings for support and keeping ballance because of limping and the ends of her wings are heavily scrapped.But the...
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    Female duck-wound on her back-how to treat?

    Hello and first of all-sorry for my bad English language. One of my female ducks have big wound on her back(under the wing)-chafing/abrasion maybe at size of big coin or even bigger.Maybe 4-5cm diameter.The story of this duck is long...She had botulism before many years and is limping.I do not...
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    Is it a problem for 70days old cayuga duckling to live with adult ducks?

    By the words of the seller the 1yo male and 1yo female are his parents and they have always been living together without any problems.But I am not sure does it is true or not.And I am also thinking that the biggest danger is from the drake.By the way I am not sure for the real age of the old...
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    Is it a problem for 70days old cayuga duckling to live with adult ducks?

    Hello and first of all-sorry for my not good English language.Here in my country is difficult to find cayuga ducks.I have ordered 3 ducks from seller who lives more than 500km away.I have ordered him two 1-year old females and one 1-year old drake.Today the ducks arrived.But the seller made a...
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    Mallard drake-difficulty walking/standing and lethargy

    Thanks for answer!It is possible but unlikely.The yard is big,but there are not on it any toxic chemicals or plants.He is born august 2017.
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    Mallard drake-difficulty walking/standing and lethargy

    Hello!First of all-Sorry for my not good English language. I have a problem with my 6 years old mallard drake.Symptoms began from 3-4 days ago.There is slightly expressed lethargy.The drake has also slight problem with walking/standing.The drake walks relatively good,it is not limping, but...
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    Straw bedding attacked by rodents-can I use it?

    I am reading this forum from many years ago and I have seen that in US most of people use wood shavings for bedding for ducks.Here in our country noone uses it.I am afraid of using shavings because of this problem with eating it from young ducklings before many years.Now mine flock contains only...
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    Straw bedding attacked by rodents-can I use it?

    Hello!First of all-sorry for my bad English.I am from Bulgaria.I am keeping domestic ducks like ornamental pets for more than 30-35years. But now I have problem with my bedding material(litter).I always use wheat straw,because it keeps warm to the ducks.And also because I had a problem before...
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