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  1. L

    Call duck friend for mallard?

    Hello! I have a lonely mallard that we hatched for our backyard lake and nature preserve. Its buddy did not make it. We moved it to its outdoor predator safe coop and have let it free range almost everyday until recently it flew down to the lake (8 weeks old). I want to find it a friend to fly...
    • Lin97588
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    • call duck duckling flock fly friend lonely mallard
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    • Forum: Ducks
  2. TheRealRyanGosling

    Duck diaper for disabled crested pekin

    Greetings feather loving friends! I have been thinking about getting my disabled crested pekin duckling a diaper for when she's bigger. I am conflicted. The idea is a game changer for the non stop cleanup. Yet it also seems possibly uncomfortable or maybe even unpleasant over feathers and under...
  3. Q

    House Ducks and Diapers?

    So... As I posted previously, I have 4 adult ducks (1 drake, 3 hens) that I hand raised inside but all went to live outside in a pen inside a gated area just for them. They are all about 2 years old. This year, my Rouen and Cayuga went SUPER broody and had about 5 fertilized eggs between them...
    • QuackHeadCrew
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    • duck diapers duckling duckling diapers house duck inside duck
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
  4. bellalovesducks

    Shrink wrapped duckling? Passed away?

    So our welsh harlequin hen incubated eggs on her own. They were doing perfect up until the external pips. One egg ended up pretty smushed because momma got nervous and stepped on her. This is our first time hatching eggs so we figured to just let her be and she would take care of it.. well it...
  5. Z

    small cut on duck top beak

    hii so i’m new to having ducks and im worried abt my duck beak its just a small cut not bleeding but i have no idea what happened is she going to be okay or what should i do she’s only 5-6 weeks old
    • zaypay
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    • duck duckling
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Ducks
  6. D

    Potential harlequin sneaked into batch of runners and gender question

    Hi, I hatched 11 runner ducks but have noticed an odd duckling out. It gets pushed aside during feeding. It walks much slower than the rest of the flock and it doesn't like to follow me. It's scared of both me and the other ducks and because of that, it has niacin deficiency due to not being...
    • Duckasana
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    • duckling runner duck
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Ducks
  7. H

    HELP! I assisted a duckling before internal pipping!

    Hello! I have been incubating duck eggs for the first time. I placed 6 eggs in the incubator, 4 were fertilized and 2 were not, and then later one of the 4 died, so I am currently left with three eggs. Yesterday was day 28, and all the eggs still didn't do internal pipping yet. I also realized...
    • Hamudazahabi
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    • assist duck duckling egg hatch help help ! incubating incubation
    • Replies: 224
    • Forum: Ducks
  8. Frodo the Pekin

    PLEASE HELP ASAP! Teflon poisoned duckling from hair dryer has seizures!!

    This is a follow up to my recent post (https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/need-help-asap-duckling-has-seizures-nutritional-issue.1630922/) about my duckling's random seizures that she started having. I went a little deeper into the bird seizures rabbit hole and found out about Teflon which...
  9. R

    New to raising ducklings! Advice and Tips?

    Hello! My name is Rose, and I'm new to the website! I was considering and trying to convince my family to allow me to raise 2 ducklings in our home, but before I do, I want to be as educated as possible on everything there is to know. Does anyone have experience raising chicks and can give me a...
  10. Frodo the Pekin

    NEED HELP ASAP! Duckling has seizures, nutritional issue?

    My 3-4 week old duckling has been having these seizures a couple of timed per day and I'm so afraid she might die from it. What she does is she suddenly starts shaking her neck, falling down and throwing her neck on her back. One such seizures from today is on the video linked below. I am...
  11. Q

    Hello from Central Delaware!

    Hello everyone! I'm Lindsay and I'm in Delaware... Home of the blue chickens (lol) I have 5 ducks as of now... Last week I had 4.... I have 2 year old male and female Khaki Campbells, a female Rouen and a female Cayuga/Pekin cross... And then last week, I went into the pen to feed the crew...
  12. Yaras3

    4 Ducklings with Runny noses, sneezing and congested nose

    Hi I am fairly new to raising ducklings domestically. I adopted four ducklings as I wasnt happy about their living situation. They are all amazing, each with a personality. Over the past couple of days I noticed they all sneeze, with runny noses, little to zero coughing, but mostly the...
    • Yaras3
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    • duckling ducks nasal congestion sneezing weeks old yellow duckling
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Ducks
  13. K

    Duckling with niacin deficiency not recovering!

    A week ago I had a duckling that suddenly stopped walking due to a niacin deficiency, even though I was supplementing with brewer's yeast. The other ducklings had stopped walking shortly after too. After adding in Rooster Poultry Cell, the other ducklings all recovered, but the one still made no...
  14. R

    Brown gooey blob, help!

    Hi all, I’m hatching some ducklings. I’m relatively new to ducks and so just wondered if I can get some advice. We had 6 eggs, only 2 hatched. Think the others haven’t formed properly unfortunately. They’re on day 32. One has made it out this morning after 24 hours post external pip. The other...
  15. H

    Trouble hatching

    I’m at a loss on ideas i tried looking up what could cause this and can’t find anything. the eggs are rested a few hours before put in and put in pointy end down humidity on lockdown is 70% and temperature is 99.5 this egg was doing fine moving when i put it in the incubator for lockdown on day...
  16. M

    Is this Mallard or something else?

    At first thought Mallard, but they are starting to get a white line on the face. Showing different ages in pics. Any help?
    • Meganella
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    • breed duckling ducks help juvenile kansas mallard rouen
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Ducks
  17. D

    Help needed! Duckling about to die!

    i am hatching mallard duckling that were abandoned by the mother since the second day, and when they first started hatching, 3 of the 4 eggs made an external pip and died for unknown reasons, the fourth started cracking yesterday and it was chirping 5 hours ago but now he isn’t moving much and...
  18. F

    Safety Hole? Concerns

    Hello all. I had a momma duck about 4 days ago killed by a wild animal. She had 7 eggs survive and we are down to a single one. This one. I’ve lost 3 alone in the hatching process. I wasn’t prepared with an incubator since I had momma so I have a makeshift setup with a heat pad and wash...
  19. MotherDucker3

    Please help!! call ducklings dying during hatch

    I started with 7 eggs, all fertile and all were growing and developing fine. 3 days ago I candled and 2 of the eggs had died and stopped growing, no veins and the inside was yellow. There 2 both had much smaller airsacs then the rest so I’m assuming that is why they died? I removed those 2 and...
  20. L

    Duckling behavior seeming slightly off, advice??

    I've noticed one of my 2 ducklings seems to be slightly wobbly on his/her feet on occasion, along with not running around as much, and peeping quieter. I've watched him//her eat, drink water, preen feathers etc. Just fine. Sleeps with the other duckling as normal. I've noticed it steps on its...
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