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I love the windows! Glad he's doing well!
How are his feet healing up?
I've never been really keen on Muscovies, but he's gorgeous! I love the coop aswell.
By the way, I have another question, I'll take it here instead of starting a new thread. How much of a problem is short-term (say, up to 2 weeks) isolation for such a gregarious animal as a muscovy duck, and if it's a big problem, how best to solve it?
I had a chicken rooster alone for a couple weeks (he was new, so he was in quarantine) and after a while he started not eating, no crowing, just sitting around, he even started molting...I moved him within sight of the other chickens and he perked right up.
I was originally thinking that we should have put another female in there with him. But we thought "better that one animal suffers than two" - plus that another duck would have meant a lot more poop to step in, which can't be good for convalescent bumblefoot.
I would put another in there. The space looks big enough, and if you keep the bedding clean the poop shouldn't be a problem. And you could even rotate them so each can have a turn inside with him and then outside foraging or whatever.
I guess another solution would have been to hang out with him - maybe just sit with him for a while a couple of times a day, maybe reading or playing on the phone. Is human company an okay substitute for a duck here? It would be a nice opportunity to make him tamer, and kill to birds with one stone, so to speak.
Hopefully "so to speak"!! LOL
But I think it will help him to be tamer, and by all means do those things, I would still put another duck in for the times you aren't there though
By the way, I have another question, I'll take it here instead of starting a new thread. How much of a problem is short-term (say, up to 2 weeks) isolation for such a gregarious animal as a muscovy duck, and if it's a big problem, how best to solve it?
I was originally thinking that we should have put another female in there with him. But we thought "better that one animal suffers than two" - plus that another duck would have meant a lot more poop to step in, which can't be good for convalescent bumblefoot.
I guess another solution would have been to hang out with him - maybe just sit with him for a while a couple of times a day, maybe reading or playing on the phone. Is human company an okay substitute for a duck here? It would be a nice opportunity to make him tamer, and kill to birds with one stone, so to speak.