Bantam Duck Page

[linda_zeagler31002]

keyt1969

we are glad to meet you and welcome to the hot blog of the century the Bantam Duck Page. If I can help you in any way just email and if I can I sure will. That rain can be really cruel sometimes, bless their little hearts, but they are adorable. Here In deep, and I do mean DEEP southern Georgia, we need rain so bad that our dust is really dusty and needs dusting really bad

my babies sit moving from shade area to shade area hassling just misserable, I told hubby we may have to get them a central AC unit installed,

if the would control their unprofessional bowel habits just squirting when they walk

I would just let them come in the house and cool their heals a bit, but no not my angels, the squirt take a step, squirt take a step,

well once more keyt1969 welcome to the duck nut club

 

[keyt1969]

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Aww thanks for the sweet welcome! I had my little calls in the house on the covered porch for a little while. They were the first ducks i owned since high school. But alas I had to put them out with the other ducks. They are so sweet. It gets terribly hot here too but I hose everyone down every now and then, even if they're in the ponds. They love that! The boys will stand there with their chests puffed out loving that spray of water!

I'm a huge duck nut. I have 24 all together now. All different kinds but my calls are my faves. They are the only ones that aren't rescues because I've had them since they were 2 weeks old. I have a duck with a twisted beak, a few with severe angel wing, a few more I got when their owner was too sick from cancer to take care of them and others when their owners couldn't afford to feed them. A lot of our chickens are rescues too. Hard to imagine a year ago last month we only had 3 dogs lol. My boyfriend and I grew up around farm animals but its the first having them of our own.

Nice to meet you! Feel free to just call me Keyt. It's pronounced Kate. My mother was from Ireland and it's how Kate is spelled in Gaelic!

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

well it is good for the ones that needed rescuing that you and hubby had home for them to retreat to

I like people who jump in and save critters, I was just lecturing, harping, and preaching a soap box of mine,

teenagers and crack head female have unwanted pregnancy, and it is not that childs fault to be brought in this world unwanted, and it is the same with animals, people jump out here and buy animals without researching the requirements for the care of them, and then when they do figure out that animal has to have $50 bag of feed, $50 nesting material, and so forth, oh they can't afford it and turn it a loose to the wild to fend on its on, or because the doggie in the window is so cute, then placed in pen in yard eat up by flea's, no heart worm prevention, no immunization shots, no monthly worming, and some scraps from supper, the neighbors dog visits, oh heaven to betsy now a litter of 14 puppies, to go and dump out, the point is if a person takes on a animal they should realize that animal in that pen is like a baby, it depends on the owner or parent for all its basic needs for the rest of its LIFE, which now if a person gets sick and can't care for it that is one thing. But these folks that jump out there and just get because ohhhhh its so cute, they need to be put in the pen and see how it feels to need rescuing,

drives me crazy as a bed bug,

lord give me strengh,

well again glad those rescuees had a rescuer to save them, GREAT GOING Keyt

Oh, were are located??

 

[keyt1969]

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You sound just like me! I used to breed, rescue and raise reptiles of all sorts. I saw this all the time when I did caring for pets shows at MSU. Parents would buy baby reptiles for their kids not knowing how big they got. Grrr!!

I'm in Michigan, near Lansing and as far as I'm concerned, there's not enough education nor punishment for animal abusers. I was in a conversation with someone on Facebook about people leaving animals in hot vehicles or even in vehicles in winter. Some people think that's not abuse!?

I know these are not bantams, but these are just two examples of my favorites..

Penguin. He came from a friend who needed to re-home him.

I renamed this one Sunny because she always looks like she's smiling and she's always, ALWAYS acting so happy!! Even as big as they are, they both will jump up to get treats out of my hand!

All of our animals are spoiled rotten! I mean, they get WAY more food than they need, treats, and talked to like human children. I've had people tell me I shouldn't give them treats as much as I do because they won't live as long. It's not like I give them ice cream or candy bars lol. But every time we go to the store we look at the shelf of about to expire veggies and fruit that are marked down considerably and they get that. Ok, maybe they get a few fruit popsicles now and then

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

Hey Keyt let me tell about a duck that's bill was damaged like Sunny's, the phone rung and I answered it, Ms. X worked with rescued animals, and this young girl had raised a pekin from a baby and it was her best friend. The duck had went out to back pasture to graze and a coyette came out of no where and snapped its bill off up to its nostril hose. They had treated it and was feeding it and was trying to locate a farm that raised pekin for processing and food, to obtain a head of a pekin, well I was startled to was this some cult crazy women? I said why do you need the head of a pekin, she told me the story above, and a Prostetic war veteran that made prostetic's for war vet's and donated them around the entire world out of FLA., and he had agreed that if they could get a bill and he would cast it and make the Pekin a prostectic bill and he would meet them at a VET's office in their community and attach it to the young girls pekin to rebuild it's bill, well I told her no I did not process ducks, but if she would pay for the packing material and express postage I would have duck for dinner and freeze the head, get it to the PO by 4 pm out mail and she would have it the next morning. And the young girls pekin got a prostetic bill. Now wasn't that a happy story rescue, I had duck for dinner and supper and he duck got a new bill.

 

[keyt1969]

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It's great that the guy did that (anyone that goes out of their way for animals like that are tops in my book!), but honestly, I have mixed feelings on it. Ducks are very smart and in Sunny's case, nothing stops her!

A friend of mine msg'd me here in BYC one day wanting to know if I'd be willing to take in 5 ducks. 2 Pekins, 2 cayugas and a runner. I guess they all belonged to an older lady that couldn't care for them anymore. My friend and her friend went to get them but they didn't have any more room for ducks so she thought of me because she knew I already had some disabled ducks. Sunny was born that way. When I got her last fall she was about 6 months old. My friend didn't know how she was going to do in life but she knew I would take good care of her. Well, despite her deformity, she seriously eats more than any of my other ducks out there! All she does is scoop it up like a shovel! She's a riot to watch! She will quack really loud when she's hungry, then when I go outside she will follow me to the door of the barn, then back to the food trough. I joke that I think she thinks she's a pig as much as she eats! Sometimes she'll even jump up to get to the food in the bowl I use to carry food to the trough. If I have treats she will jump up like a trick duck to take it out of my hands, but not til I tell her to! I don't purposely train ducks they train themselves!

A lot more ducks are born that way than people know. But in the wild they are all usually killed because any sign of weakness is a bad thing to other birds. A lot of farmers kill birds like this too thinking they won't be able to eat but almost all birds find a way like Sunny has. She stole my heart that night I went to pick up all those ducks. It was freezing cold and dark that night but I saw her and had to hug her. She still likes her hugs and pets on the head!

 

[missy5]

keyt1969, I'm so happy to see Sunny. I have a duckling i've been so worried about. Like you said though, she eats and drinks just as well as my other ducklings. My concern was her not swimming. I am always heartbroken when I put six ducklings in the tub before I put them down for the night, and she just splashes her little head up and down in the water. I kept telling myself it doesn't mater how long she lives, I can not and will not cull her. Everyone tells me i'm being cruel. She is so sweet and funny. For a while I was worried about her breathing cause she breaths threw her mouth I think. When she was real tiny her bill was normal but her nostals didn't look like they had holes in them and eventualy this is what her bill looked like.
When she was 1 1/2 weeks.

This is at 3 weeks 2 days.

I was worried about her not getting enough oxygen because her bill looked like it had a blue or purple tint to it but the other yellow ducklings bill looks the same colour.

Here they are sleeping in a pile, they all love her even if she is a little different.

My concern is, is it going to get worse and will she have problems later? Her bottom of her bill groes longer but the top seems to grow wider.
In the last pic there are two darker coloured ducklings side by side, does anyone know what thier colours are?The one on the far right is the one i'm realy woundering about, I haven't seen one that colour before. She/he is kind of a dusty colour?

 

[missy5]

Sorry, I forgot to add she now swims under water and I am so proud!!!!!

 

[missy5]

animalpro24, I finally took some picks. I built the first one with my own little hands. (When i say that my son laughs at me). It was a quick build, but not bat for a 55 yr. old lady. No wait 54, oh who cares some days I feel 20 and somedays I feel 80. lol.
Here's the first coop and run. A small tin shed 5x6.

The first pic is from inside the run looking at the coop or shed. Second pic is the devider between the chickens and ducks. Some of the ducks are still to new so they are devided. Third pic is of duck coop and last is the whole run in front of the house. The new coop and run is started in the back yard. Here are a few pics of the begining. Pond is in the ground. Didn't measure the new shed but it's three times the size.

I'm using an old car port frame and shed and crates from a garden center. everything is falling into place nicely. So far. Hope the pond plants last a couple of days, LOL we no better.
Oh and the playpen has ducklings not human baby's,LOL.

 

[keyt1969]

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Doesn't look like you will have any problems! All animals, especially ducks adjust. Just by looking at my Sunny you wouldn't think she eats as much as she does! A lot of my ducks don't actually swim, they just like to sit in the water and splash themselves. I have a little call that won't bathe at all so I have to do it by hand now and then or spray her down with the garden hose.

Can't really tell you about the other ducklings. The lighter one looks like a Muskovy but it's hard to tell in that pic.