baby duck with lots of problems

[GarnerZoo]

I would love to try raw/organic milk, but part of the reason I don't drink much milk in the first place is because I'm lactose intolerant so I don't thing milk straight from the cows my best option haha. And yes, tomatoes from the store are terrible! I've been spoiled with tomatoes fresh from our garden in the summer time and cannot eat any others, they all taste so bland and un-tomato like haha.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I would love to try raw/organic milk, but part of the reason I don't drink much milk in the first place is because I'm lactose intolerant so I don't thing milk straight from the cows my best option haha. And yes, tomatoes from the store are terrible! I've been spoiled with tomatoes fresh from our garden in the summer time and cannot eat any others, they all taste so bland and un-tomato like haha.

Can you drink goats milk GZ? I understand those that have an intolerance to cows milk can drink it.

I am thankful I don't have an intolerance to cows milk cause I sure do like it.

Tasteless tomatoes and so expensive too. Nothing like home grown ones.

Hows your older girls warming up to the younger ones?

 

[mikaela2103]

Our mother duck hatched her babies May 14th and we noticed this little one that was always on his back.  He is the only one out of the group that has a huge top knot.  On the top of her head is a brown growth it doesn't look like a scab it looks like a small tumor.  His beak has a small cut in it also across the top.  He can't hardly keep his balance he keeps flipping over on his back.  We tried putting vet wrap on his legs to see if that would help but all he does is crawl with that on.  I bought brewers yeast and all they had was the pills.  We ground them up and put half a pill in his water.  He drinks allot but just nibbles on the food so that's why we put the brewers yeast in the water.  We've got him in the house with a light on him and he's on a towel in a cage.  He spends most of his time on his back unless I wrap him in a towel or hold him.  

My grandson is charging his phone so I can take pictures of him so you all can see what he looks like.

Can someone please help us?  Thank you so much.

Patty

Try putting electrolytes in its water. We had a very unhealthy duckling that we thought was going to die and the electrolytes actually saved her life. You can get them at the tractor supply stores

 

[mikaela2103]

Trying putting electrolytes in its water! We had an early hatched duckling that couldnt stand or walk almost died and the electrolytes saved her life. You can get a package of it at the tractor supply store and just mix into the water as directed on the package

 

[Julie Birb]

I would love to try raw/organic milk, but part of the reason I don't drink much milk in the first place is because I'm lactose intolerant so I don't thing milk straight from the cows my best option haha. And yes, tomatoes from the store are terrible! I've been spoiled with tomatoes fresh from our garden in the summer time and cannot eat any others, they all taste so bland and un-tomato like haha. 

It definitely isn't. It still has the lactose in it even of raw. I am almost tempted not to buy tomatoes at the store anymore for that reason that they are exactly as you described them. They're some nasty mutated mass produced version of real ones.

 

[Debs Flock]

Sharing my thoughts on any kind of milk and store bought tomatoes:

LOL...I know I'm in the minority.

 

[Julie Birb]

Sharing my thoughts on any kind of milk and store bought tomatoes:            LOL...I know I'm in the minority.

I love you, Debs.

 

[GarnerZoo]

Can you drink goats milk GZ? I understand those that have an intolerance to cows milk can drink it.

I am thankful I don't have an intolerance to cows milk cause I sure do like it.

Tasteless tomatoes and so expensive too. Nothing like home grown ones.

Hows your older girls warming up to the younger ones?

I havent tried goats milk actually, I'll look into it though! Yes, having an intolerance to milk is not fun. Especially when I love icecream as much as i do ahah.

Still have two of the big girls picking on the younger ones. They're not as big as our smallest older chicken yet so we're keeping them in the kennel at night still. We let them out during the day with the big girls and kept them in the coop, came in later to find one bleeding from her beak I know peckin order still needs established more but the young ones are still too small to be out 24/7 I think. What do you all think?

 

[Miss Lydia]

I havent tried goats milk actually, I'll look into it though! Yes, having an intolerance to milk is not fun. Especially when I love icecream as much as i do ahah.

Still have two of the big girls picking on the younger ones. They're not as big as our smallest older chicken yet so we're keeping them in the kennel at night still. We let them out during the day with the big girls and kept them in the coop, came in later to find one bleeding from her beak I know peckin order still needs established more but the young ones are still too small to be out 24/7 I think. What do you all think?

If someone is being mean to them then your doing the right thing. and keeping them up at night. I have a few Large fowl hens who even scare my Muscovy Drake Opie[don't tell him I told you all] some hens go beyond the pecking order and are just ornery.
How old are your younger ones now?

 

[Julie Birb]

If someone is being mean to them then your doing the right thing. and keeping them up at night. I have a few Large fowl hens who even scare my Muscovy Drake Opie[don't tell him I told you all] some hens go beyond the pecking order and are just ornery.
How old are your younger ones now?

Aww, poor sweet Opie.