1 yr old silver appleyard Prolapse 😥

[Miss Lydia]

You could buy some egg decoys if you really don't want any babies or hardboil some but I'm not sure if that'd work or if they'd end up smelling really bad

I have fake eggs in my nest boxes they look just like real ones and my chickens love to sit on them while laying their eggs. Not sure if your duck would keep sitting after a while but might be worth it.

 

[Jenbirdee]

can a regular duck hatch out muscovy eggs?

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

do you think she won’t know that fake eggs are fake?

I'm not sure, I've never had fake eggs

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yes . My Muscovy have hatched Runner and Buffs.Of course it would be 35 days instead of 28 but don't show her a calender and she'll never know

 

[Jenbirdee]

update on Blossom. she is still laying an egg every day, but she has not prolapsed again and she is not dripping any fluids however she has diarrhea. I’m still keeping her inside the hospital room. I’m not sure if she’s broody or not half the time when I go to check on her, she’s sitting on the eggs, the other half she’s up against the gate to the other side of the room and guess who’s on the other side of that gate? My two 6 week olds! They have become good friends with Blossom duck now.
But during the day if it’s not Thunderstorms or triple digit temps they spend most of the day outside in the little introduction / integration pen.
Which is in between the ducks and the geese. I told them to choose if they want to live with the ducks or the geese, they chose the duck side, lol.
So this is the sixth day that blossom has been inside since she re-prolapsed. initially after she first prolapsed, she re-prolapsed two days later when I put her back outside. Which is why I am hesitant to put her back outside again.. I’m not giving her any antibiotics, but I have given her some probiotics and vitamins in her water on and off this week. and I’ve been carrying her upstairs to get a little swim time in my bath tub every day.
How many days will she keep laying eggs if she actually is gone broody? Because like I said, I don’t know for sure if she’s going broody or not - sometimes I feel the eggs to see if they’re warm and sometimes they’re warm but sometimes they’re not and she always quack loudly at me and it seems like after five minutes in the bathtub she wants to go back to the nest. But yeah, she still laid an egg every day this week.
I’d really like to let her go back outside, but I’m hesitant

 

[Miss Lydia]

I’ve never had one continue to lay once the are full on broody. Why not give her a choice if she wants to stay on the eggs or go out with the flock.

 

[Jenbirdee]

I’ve never had one continue to lay once the are full on broody. Why not give her a choice if she wants to stay on the eggs or go out with the flock.

good idea
lol sort of like how I gave the ducklings a choice if they want to live with ducks or geese. It was just too hard for me to decide what to do so I had to let them choose for themselves

 

[Jenbirdee]

Blossom is doing good she’s been outside a few days and i was still giving her calcium sometimes the citrate d3 tab and other days the cal gluc so how long can i keep giving it to her - i think i should stop ?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Blossom is doing good she’s been outside a few days and i was still giving her calcium sometimes the citrate d3 tab and other days the cal gluc so how long can i keep giving it to her - i think i should stop ?

Has she started back laying? if she has oyster shell you can stop the other.

 

[Jenbirdee]

Has she started back laying? if she has oyster shell you can stop the other.

she has oyster shell and the flocks shells . she actually never stopped laying. her eggs are a certain shape and i can tell which is hers. actually most of my ducks i know who layed which egg lol. i’ve been watching her she lays her egg around 10:45 am .