6 week old duck still has nekid wings..pics added please have a look.

[domromer]

My oldest duck Samson is a Golden 300. He is one week older than all my other ducks but is still about half their size.
I noticed today that all the other ducks have fully feathered wings, his wings are still kind of naked. At the end of his wings are little bony points that stick out. Is this normal for a runt? Do I need to try to take a picture to illustrate his condition better?

 

[Wifezilla]

yup...need a photo

 

[domromer]

So here is samson. All the other ducks are a week younger and fully feathered. His wings are still very nekid and I'm worried he mught be sick or something. He seems fine and eats lots. He's about a 3rd smaller than all the other ducks even though he is a week older.

 

[DuckFanatic]

The blue straw-things are the beginning of the feathers growing in. He also looks like a khaki campbell... Hopefully someone moe experienced can help you though..

 

[stuckinthecity]

someones eating his feathers off his wings. My scovy ducklings did this much more worse. They had greens, food, water... everything they needed... I dont know why they did this. They had bare spots on them though. Your duckling isnt near as bad.

 

[Wifezilla]

Are they getting enough protein?

Also, several people this year have had ducks that didn't develop. Look up the micro duck posts.

 

[domromer]

They eat flock raiser and are outside free ranging all day.

 

[domromer]

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What did you do ?

 

[Sweetfolly]

Don't worry about those "bony things" - those are just the shafts of feathers that are trying to emerge.

Also, I second Wifezilla's question - is he getting enough protein?

I had a duckling that wasn't developing this year, and she just seemed to require an abnormally high level of protein to get "jump-started" - I was spending $5 a day on worms to feed her, and she wouldn't touch anything else. I was sure, with so much protein, that she would have developed "angel wing", but she's developing just fine now - in fact, at 5 weeks, her wings look just slightly fuller than your Samson's.

DuckFanatic - "He also looks like a khaki campbell"

Golden 300's are a commercial Khaki Campbell hybrid developed for high egg production - so that explains that