➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[BantyChooks]

2019 is really not starting off how I wanted.

 

[R2elk]

Did you know they’re the only animals in the world to grow branched horns (as opposed to antlers), and to regularly shed its horns like antlers? Weird animals.

This one has shed his right horn but still has his left horn.

 

[R2elk]

Two headed Pronghorn Antelope?

 

[R2elk]

Even Pronghorn Antelope can have messed up horns.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Thank you Banty.

 

[be4morgan]

Even Pronghorn Antelope can have messed up horns.

I feel like it will fall off anytime, s/he looks happy on the second photo though. LOL

 

[R2elk]

I feel like it will fall off anytime, s/he looks happy on the second photo though. LOL

The first one is from April 2008 and the second one is from May of 2008. Unfortunately other people than me were also watching him and he did not survive hunting season in the fall of 2008.

 

[Kiki]

The first one is from April 2008 and the second one is from May of 2008. Unfortunately other people than me were also watching him and he did not survive hunting season in the fall of 2008.

Do you camp out somewhere and wait for the animals or do you get these awesome photos from your back porch?

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

Well, we have a temporary visitor. My neighbor at the top of the driveway/hill had one of their dogs bring this duck to them. So they, as they put it, "doctored it up" and tried to save it. They have no idea where it came from. The only ducks they have are mandarins. They ended up putting it with some of their other animals, I think my hubby said their pigs or where their pigs used to be held, in a "pen" type area. They asked us if we wanted it since they know we have ducks. She called it a khaki campbell, he called it a mallard. I think it is a mix of either mallard or rouen with something else. When my hubby went up there to get it, oh boy! He said the conditions were just awful! Girl? Boy? I think it is a boy. It has quite a dark green bill and it has some white feathers around the neck that I think is the start of a "neck ring". It is bigger than my mallard, Luna, and smaller than my female rouen Xena. A LOT smaller than my drake Noah. Noah did not take too kindly to the stranger. He kept harassing it and pulling out it's feathers from his nips. The poor thing would try to run away or just take it. Never tried fighting back. Little Luna was accepting of it. Xena wouldn't try to nip at it but would try to push it out of her way with her neck if it got too close. Noah chases after it and tries to nip/bite. The poor thing was soooooo stinky. I mean it smelled liked poo. I have it in the house right now. We got it in the bathtub and washed it off. I have one of those cheesy "poultry first aid kits" that you can get at tractor supply. They had one marked down a long time ago and I grabbed it. Anyway, it has this "chicken wash" in it. I figured if it was gentle enough for chickens, it would be fine for a duck 1 time to try and get the stinky off. So that's what I used and let it rinse off really well in the tub. Now it's in the makeshift brooder I have for the night. We're trying to give it some water with electrolytes and food. It seems friendly enough. Quiet. I've heard it quack. Doesn't sound raspy but it's not really loud either, so I don't know. I'm still saying boy. Which means I am going to have to find him a good home. But I am going to take care of him as best as I can and get him feeling better before I do. A lot better than the neighbors up top did. It took me forever to integrate my littles with the big girls. I don't know how to do so with ducks. I feel so helpless. He keeps doing this wing feather twitching thing. I don't have a clue why. It's not like a seizure or anything serious like that. To me, I think it is more like nervous twitching. Idk.

As for pics:
He was so filthy. I thought his bill was black, until we bathed him.

It's hard to see but the white on his wings, if you look at it from the back, kind of makes a heart shape. Is kind of neat.

Can see the dark green and black bill now that he is all clean.

 

[Kiki]

Well, we have a temporary visitor. My neighbor at the top of the driveway/hill had one of their dogs bring this duck to them. So they, as they put it, "doctored it up" and tried to save it. They have no idea where it came from. The only ducks they have are mandarins. They ended up putting it with some of their other animals, I think my hubby said their pigs or where their pigs used to be held, in a "pen" type area. They asked us if we wanted it since they know we have ducks. She called it a khaki campbell, he called it a mallard. I think it is a mix of either mallard or rouen with something else. When my hubby went up there to get it, oh boy! He said the conditions were just awful! Girl? Boy? I think it is a boy. It has quite a dark green bill and it has some white feathers around the neck that I think is the start of a "neck ring". It is bigger than my mallard, Luna, and smaller than my female rouen Xena. A LOT smaller than my drake Noah. Noah did not take too kindly to the stranger. He kept harassing it and pulling out it's feathers from his nips. The poor thing would try to run away or just take it. Never tried fighting back. Little Luna was accepting of it. Xena wouldn't try to nip at it but would try to push it out of her way with her neck if it got too close. Noah chases after it and tries to nip/bite. The poor thing was soooooo stinky. I mean it smelled liked poo. I have it in the house right now. We got it in the bathtub and washed it off. I have one of those cheesy "poultry first aid kits" that you can get at tractor supply. They had one marked down a long time ago and I grabbed it. Anyway, it has this "chicken wash" in it. I figured if it was gentle enough for chickens, it would be fine for a duck 1 time to try and get the stinky off. So that's what I used and let it rinse off really well in the tub. Now it's in the makeshift brooder I have for the night. We're trying to give it some water with electrolytes and food. It seems friendly enough. Quiet. I've heard it quack. Doesn't sound raspy but it's not really loud either, so I don't know. I'm still saying boy. Which means I am going to have to find him a good home. But I am going to take care of him as best as I can and get him feeling better before I do. A lot better than the neighbors up top did. It took me forever to integrate my littles with the big girls. I don't know how to do so with ducks. I feel so helpless. He keeps doing this wing feather twitching thing. I don't have a clue why. It's not like a seizure or anything serious like that. To me, I think it is more like nervous twitching. Idk.

As for pics:
He was so filthy. I thought his bill was black, until we bathed him.
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It's hard to see but the white on his wings, if you look at it from the back, kind of makes a heart shape. Is kind of neat.
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Can see the dark green and black bill now that he is all clean.
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@WVduckchick @casportpony this video^^^