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Why is my adult male duck honking??
I’ve not been able to find anything about this online, but my adult male Pekin who is healthy and normally sized and can make the normal male duck noise as well will sometimes make a weird noise that I can only describe as a “honk”. He opens his bill wider for the honk and it sounds almost like...- Ilovemyduckkids
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Reintroducing Duck to Flock
Hello, everyone! I am new to raising ducks and I have a question... I am sorry this is so long, but here it goes: I have 8 "ducklings" that are 11 weeks old - all hatched together. One of them got her leg/ankle hurt a little over a week ago. We kept her isolated in a crate inside the duck run...- cfong12000
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Limping Female Pekin Duck - what should I do to heal her?
Hello, I hope everyone is enjoying their Labor Day. So I previously had a duck pass away after she had been limping/immobile for a few weeks out of the blue. I came home and she was passed away laying by the coop with the other ducks and it was really heartbreaking. Now I have another one of my...- tayjamieson
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Injured baby duck
Hi everyone ! Brand new duck mom here. We bought 2 yesterday from tractor supply and the guy gave us an extra one free saying it wasn’t going to make it . One leg works fine but the other sticks straight out behind it. It can’t stand. It scoots around and chirps ☹️ I thought placing it in water...- MelaniaD12
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How to Get Your Ducks to Like You/Not be Afraid of You
Hello everyone, I just joined--this is my first post. We've kept chickens for almost 2 years now, but we just got some ducks. We started with 4 Khakis, then added 2 Runners & 2 Silver Appleyards this past weekend. My question is how to get our ducks to enjoy being around us and not run away...- motherofmanyblessings
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First time hatching attempt, any advice?
Hi All, We recently noticed our Aylesbury duck was sitting on eggs and had built herself a little nest. After a while we decided to get some fertile eggs for her to sit on, so we got 4 yesterday (ive been told they are Indian runner and Indian runner/mallard cross, two of each) and went to put...- E.D.GardenFarm
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Eggs became liquid. Why?
my Muscovy had a clutch of... 19ish eggs. I candled them every two weeks removing duds and such. However every so often there would be one that became liquid. Eventually all of them had to be removed for this reason. Is this just a thing that sometimes happened during the summer? I live in the...- Dfarago
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Fertilized eggs turned to liquid. Why?
my Muscovy had a clutch of... 19ish eggs. I candled them every two weeks removing duds and such. However every so often there would be one that became liquid. Eventually all of them had to be removed for this reason. Is this just a thing that sometimes happened during the summer? I live in the... -
Bye-Bye Duck Duck..
Hello BYC, I've lost one of my Male Pekin duck, I had one too many. So I was going to have to do, rsomething...but it appears nature took that burden from me. He passes away yesterday morning, I just don't know from what. He didn't have a cough, or anything obvious but I'm worried it somkind of...- Bettyboop7499
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Duck Acting Strange?
My duck is acting terrified of me all of a sudden and I have no idea why? Shes a little over 6 weeks, and when I came home from work today she was being just... Weird. I came home earlier than I normally do, but otherwise nothing to my knowledge happened while I was gone. We have a giant box to...- BlueLovesBabyDucks
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The Back of My Pekin Ducks Neck Is Always Wet. Why?
For a few weeks the back of my pekin ducks neck is either always wet or always looks wet. When it doesn't feel wet to the touch it still has the appearance that it is so. There are dry spells where for a day it will look fine but it keeps returning to the wet look. I do not believe she has wet...- Ari_babe0112
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New to ducks
Hi I’m very new to duck farming. We get our Pekin ducklings in September. We are also looking at getting Khaki Campbell’s as well. Wondering what we need to know.- Jaime quackerville
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My Young Pekin Is Molting. Is That Ok?
I got my female pekin as a duckling in early April. Two months later she was fully feathered but it is now summer and very warm out. She only just grew in all her feathers is it ok that she is already molting a lot of small feathers? It is A LOT of little feathers too they are all ove the yard...- Ari_babe0112
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Peking Duck Can’t Get Up-1st Time Owners
Hi everyone, I’m hoping someone can help. Our Peking Duck is 5 weeks old. She had bent in (Niacin deficiency?) legs that were thicker than the other Peking when we got them. Yesterday, she stopped getting up. The back claws that resemble almost thumbs, are turning black. We’ve done some...- emeraldeyes32482
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Help with my Ducklings?
Hi! I love ducks and am starting to raise them. I have 3 Muscovy ducklings with one imprinted on me who follows me at the age of 5 days. The second is imprinted on the first duckling and is 1 and a half days old. The third is hatching as I type this. Should I let the third imprint on me or it’s... -
Too many drakes or not enough ducks?
I got my baby muscovies about a month and a half ago and they’ve gotten so big and beautiful but for so long I could not figure out if they were male or female. Everything said I should be able to tell by size and voice but they looked similarly sized and they don’t really talk a lot so I just... -
What Can I feed my duckling?
Hi! My duckling was just hatched last night but I’m not sure what’s safe to feed it. I only bought grit, not knowing that it wasn’t the actual duck feed! I read online that lettuce is fine to feed them, but I don’t know if I can feed my duckling lettuce already?- FirstEverDuck
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Duck with broken leg
so, last summer I had a duck injure his leg. I bough a seat type thing which immobilized him. So he could still be outdoors with my other ducks without putting pressure on his leg and hurting it more. I also made a splint for him as well. After a few weeks I let him walk with the splint on for... -
Clutch of eggs different cycles?
can a clutch of eggs be in different development stages? I candled my eggs (being incubated by mamma) and they look like they’re in different stages. Some look like they’re closer to 20 days. Whereas some look like they’re close to hatching. You can see movement in the eggs. She is in the same... -
Nonstop chirping
Hi, We're hatching ducklings for first time. First 2 hatched yesterday and put them in their pen last night. They've got water and food (but not very interested in either) and an overhead heat plate. They chirp nearly all the time. Literally nonstop. Even when we're not nearby/doing...