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Side note, my copy of Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks just arrived. I happened to open it right to the section on butchering them, and promptly tore those pages out. Excited to read what's left :)

Okay, I ended up buying blu-kote, not making my own (you should see my hands now - all purple). I dyed her wings with it, but they continued to peck at her and her injury got worse. So I have sectioned off part of the indoor pen so that she can have some space to heal. She is still right next...

Thank you so much for the tips. It's true that their indoor space is boring! Now that they are spending some hours outside every day I was not worrying about that, but clearly I need to spice things up in there until they are old enough to be outside all of the time. And I just found...

I'm currently letting them swim around as I figure that regardless of how it was caused if I can get the blood off it's less likely the others will want to peck at it. I would have thought it was just that one blood feather broke if they didn't all look so motley - but maybe this is normal...

I just noticed that one of my almost month old ducklings has some injured wing feathers. She was fine this morning, and we've been around them pretty much all day with no incidents - We were just herding them out of the house for a bit of outside time when we noticed blood. They have just...