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I have a 6 week old duckling who escaped his run yesterday and ate some Mugwort.
He’s a Black East India cross, so a bantam or miniature breed (idk what this is called in the US)
He ate a small a leaf lower down on the Mugwort plant before running off (as we were chasing him 🤦🏻)
I...
received two ducklings at 3 days old, and both appeared healthy at the time. We’re now in week 2, and while one duck has tripled in size, the other has barely grown. Despite that, she eats, drinks plenty of water, and sleeps regularly. She loves to cuddle up next to her sibling but tends to...
Bramble is an almost six week Welsh Harlequin cross with either a Buff or a Cayuga buff cross. I’m usually correct when vent sexing goslings but I have zero percent accuracy with vent sexing ducklings so I knew I probably was wrong with Bramble but Bramble appeared to be a female at first.
After...
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I have a 1 year old female call duck who started having seizures this evening. She was violently flapping and thrashing her whole body, and is going periodically limp. Her eyes seem to go in and out of focus, and would get watery during these moments with the right one being more...
Hey I currently have a broody muscovy duck laying on almost 20 eggs. I have to leave town for a few days on July 12th so I decided to candle a few of her eggs. Any idea when these will hatch? I want to make sure I am here when they hatch so I can move her and any babies into a secure coop with...
I came home today to my two year old Black Swedish Hen, named Maggie, lame and having issues moving, almost as if she is egg bound.
She still has an appetite, is interested in preening, and is currently in the bath (also dosed with meloxicam).
Is this egg binding or something different? She’s...
Hi everyone, first post on here (after much browsing of BYC I might say) and I could do with a little beginners advice to a problem I’m currently having whilst incubating my Indian runner duck eggs.
I am on day 14, and for the last 2 days when I have gone to cool/mist my eggs (as per the...
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A few days ago, my duck (5-6 weeks old) fractured a vertebrae low in her neck. I took her to an avian vet on an emergency appointment, who treated her and gave us oral meds (meloxidyl 1 mL dose) to take home and administer for 7 days.
The vet told me one way to administer (the correct...
I could use some HATCHING HELP info…we are incubating 6 chicken eggs and 5 duck eggs. Put chicken eggs in 7 days after ducks to account for the 21/28 day difference. We opted to set humidity to ducks instead of chicks, so humidity was in the 55 range for the 25 days. We had been candling and...
So this is my first egg year and seemingly duckling.
My Swedish went broody first
Then my magpie... and recently it seems the khaki....
Even before being obviously broody the khaki was laying beside the magpie (and khaki would adopt the egg) or in the magpies nest during break. I used to...
Hi everyone! I am in Levant, ME. I have a male Black Swedish duck that I need to rehome. I have too many males, especially since I lost one of my girls in December. I’m sad to see him go, but my other 2 boys aren’t very fond of him. Please let me know if you or someone you know would like to...
My two ducks got picked off by a fox 28 days ago. I had some eggs so I put them in an incubator and one has already pipped! It happened over 12 hours ago and no progress. I would not be worried but the pip is so so so small I am worried that it is not getting any oxygen. Here is a photo and...
My 2 year old kahki Campbell has been acting off. Today she still was: not really going out with her sister, staying nested in their enclosure, even going back into their hut. I was wondering if she was just struggling with an egg but even her sister seemed concerned and came to get us and bring...
Hello! My flock has 3 adult female ducks, 2 adult male ducks, and a juvenile female and male duck (7 ducks). Recently, we decided to give away the 2 adult male ducks to a friend. Although they were nice to humans and let us pick them up, they would bully the other ducks (they would rip off the...
Hi! New here, but I need some help.
Four-month old female Pekin. Normal height and weight, very lethargic and weak.
Have been trying to integrate my two new male and female Pekin ducklings into my coop with other one-year old male Mallard. His previous mate escaped and disappeared. He usually...
Prepare yourselves. I have a suprise. I just hatched out a SILVER Cayuga. That's right. A SILVER Cayuga. Their parent stock are black Cayugas. I was under the impression that Cayugas were black and only black. But this little guy just hatched out and he is silver. I'm talking with all of my...
Hi again, BYC community! I'm having some fear about whether or not I'm doing something wrong, and would love some validation and tips from the pros here that've successfully hatched duck eggs before.
So, for a bit of context here, I'm currently on day 25 of an incubation period, and am using a...
Hi there we have various ducklings for sale.
-Hatched yesterday 5/25/25 3 khaki Campbells $25 for the lot of 3
-four Swedish in varying colors black blue and a grey. Between 2-3 weeks old $10 an each.
-3 khaki campbells about 2-3 weeks old $10 each.
-5 Pekin completely off the heat lamp. $15...