Am I supposed to be concern with these blackspots!?

[ruthhope]

I have

I agree a zoomed out picture would be helpful. I have a lot of ducks and some have spots and some don’t. Sometimes they get dark spots from eating a lot of kale or other things like kale perhaps spinach . Turns out it’s not usually a problem. A lot of my ducks are varying amounts of it and have lived many years with it and has no problem. @ruthhope

Been watching to see if anyone had any ideas as I didn't know what is going on with the "fuzzy" areas. I agree a zoomed out photo might be useful.

In general, black spots are a harmless variation on some ducks bills. My ducks get into all sorts of scrapes with their bills: my drakes fight and try and bite eachother even when separated by ralis. Some females peck at each other two, perhaps not as aggressively as my drakes. They get scarred bills as a result. Sonetimes their scarred bills flake. All a little unsightly but not harmful.

I hsve never seen or heard of a bill going moldy.

I suspect thst the fuzzyness is keratin overgrowth from scrapes and bangs, but I am not certain. If your duck is healthy and thriving, my advice would be to wait and see if there are any developments

 

[Willxii]

I have

Been watching to see if anyone had any ideas as I didn't know what is going on with the "fuzzy" areas. I agree a zoomed out photo might be useful.

In general, black spots are a harmless variation on some ducks bills. My ducks get into all sorts of scrapes with their bills: my drakes fight and try and bite eachother even when separated by ralis. Some females peck at each other two, perhaps not as aggressively as my drakes. They get scarred bills as a result. Sonetimes their scarred bills flake. All a little unsightly but not harmful.

I hsve never seen or heard of a bill going moldy.

I suspect thst the fuzzyness is keratin overgrowth from scrapes and bangs, but I am not certain. If your duck is healthy and thriving, my advice would be to wait and see if there are any developments

His personality hasn't changed much, he's still his happy self, he's only ever aggressive towards people he doesn't recognize (mostly kids) it's only happening to him, my other Drake is completely healthy as well. Any advice for the keratin overgrowth, If it does happen to be the problem?

 

[Willxii]

That's alright! I'll be back on tomorrow, as it's getting on the late said for me

This is what his bill looked like today, it looks a bit like washed out grey, but I'm mostly concerned about the black spots below his nose!

I'm sorry you had to see his nose like this he was in the middle of eating and got a bit of food up there. Bit he's currently taking care of that!

 

[ruthhope]

His personality hasn't changed much, he's still his happy self, he's only ever aggressive towards people he doesn't recognize (mostly kids) it's only happening to him, my other Drake is completely healthy as well. Any advice for the keratin overgrowth, If it does happen to be the

This is what his bill looked like today, it looks a bit like washed out grey, but I'm mostly concerned about the black spots below his nose!

I'm sorry you had to see his nose like this he was in the middle of eating and got a bit of food up there. Bit he's currently taking care of that!

Black freckles even coalesced freckles are normal. I will get a photo of two pekin ducks (clutch sisters) tomorrow and post. One has heavily black pigmented bill the other doesn't. Both are normal healthy pekins. The only distinguishing feature between the two gals is their bills

 

[Willxii]

Black freckles even coalesced freckles are normal. I will get a photo of two pekin ducks (clutch sisters) tomorrow and post. One has heavily black pigmented bill the other doesn't. Both are normal healthy pekins. The only distinguishing feature between the two gals is their bills

That's so adorable, I've known that some duck do get freckles on their bill I was just concern my boy was growing fungai because of the grey stuff and black freckles deciding to grow at the same time.