Advice on getting just one pekin duckling as house pet

[Arica]

U could put a tarp I the ducks area

 

[bexnd]

i have had house pekins before i would advise on a duck not a drake. i bought mine a dog car crate with plastic sides so when i was out it would go in there without diaper on they soon get used to the comings and goings mine would go to sleep when we where out. when mine got older he would go outside during the day in a run next to my other ducks so he got to socialise but was still very much the house duck and always knew when to come in

 

[MaxXx0808]

Hi all.

I bought two ducks without any knowledge on what to do with them or how to care for them. One Mascovy and one Pekin when i got mine they were two weeks old and lived in a plastic crate with wheels they played outside when i was there i monitored the time they spent in the little water bowl and towel dried them when they got out, i never diapered them just constantly cleaned up where they messed.They are so amazingly tame that they call for hugs and love their necks and backs scratched. either breed make lovly tame house pets and mine still come inside from their pen in the morning and at night for food and bark like the dogs. They dont have trouble with children or other pets they just hate cats.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hi all.

I bought two ducks without any knowledge on what to do with them or how to care for them. One Mascovy and one Pekin when i got mine they were two weeks old and lived in a plastic crate with wheels they played outside when i was there i monitored the time they spent in the little water bowl and towel dried them when they got out, i never diapered them just constantly cleaned up where they messed.They are so amazingly tame that they call for hugs and love their necks and backs scratched. either breed make lovly tame house pets and mine still come inside from their pen in the morning and at night for food and bark like the dogs. They dont have trouble with children or other pets they just hate cats.

How about some pics.

 

[MaxXx0808]

hi all.

Sad to say that my Muscovy female I've had since two weeks old died last week. She got stuck in her bath tub and got a little water logged. we blow dried her and warmed her up with a warm water bottle. We gave her some water soluble anti-biotic but nothing seemed to work. A visit to the vet later I wound out she had Air sac disease and they just gave us a str4onger antibiotics and two days later she had two seizures and died. Very heart broken about this, and the country I live in is having a duck shortage so no ducklings available to replace her. :'(

 

[Miss Lydia]

hi all.

Sad to say that my Muscovy female I've had since two weeks old died last week. She got stuck in her bath tub and got a little water logged. we blow dried her and warmed her up with a warm water bottle. We gave her some water soluble anti-biotic but nothing seemed to work. A visit to the vet later I wound out she had Air sac disease and they just gave us a str4onger antibiotics and two days later she had two seizures and died. Very heart broken about this, and the country I live in is having a duck shortage so no ducklings available to replace her. :'(

I'm so sorry, did they say how she got Air Sac disease?

 

[MaxXx0808]

After her drowning they said her buoyance thing in her throat didn't re-inflate, but the air sac disease was caused by undigested food rotting in her crop. she'd been storing this to feed her clutch of eggs which hadn't hatched.

 

[Miss Lydia]

After her drowning they said her buoyance thing in her throat didn't re-inflate, but the air sac disease was caused by undigested food rotting in her crop. she'd been storing this to feed her clutch of eggs which hadn't hatched.

One of our Moderators on BYC is in SA and she recc. you check with Gumtree and OLX for duckling/ducks.

How old was this duck? and are you aware when rearing ducklings they need grit in which to grind their food in their crops? ducks don't store food in their crops to feed their hatchlings the way birds do. she may have had an impacted crop. very sorry.

 

[MaxXx0808]

Thanks will check again. and yes did everything my duck rearing book said, she was a year and a couple of months old

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thanks will check again. and yes did everything my duck rearing book said, she was a year and a couple of months old

I wish you all the best in finding another, I know it's hard to lose them I lost one to old age about a month ago. Keep us updated.