Deficiency/deformed duckling?

[ruthhope]

I spy tail feathers!

 

[RosemaryDuck]

I spy tail feathers!

Yep! They also have little feathers starting on their shoulders and bellies. Looking like they're going to be mostly black (I think!). Which is weird since they both started almost completely yellow!

 

[Miss Lydia]

What's going to happen to these littles? will you keep them or have you lined up homes a already?

They sure are adorable you have done a great job saving them and getting them healthy. I can imagine how many of these babies end up dead and eaten every season It's so nice to see some being loved and cared for.
How's the leg doing on the one in the cast?

 

[RosemaryDuck]

What's going to happen to these littles? will you keep them or have you lined up homes a already?

They sure are adorable you have done a great job saving them and getting them healthy. I can imagine how many of these babies end up dead and eaten every season It's so nice to see some being loved and cared for.
How's the leg doing on the one in the cast?

I'll be rehoming them once they're fully feathered out and all . And thanks! Yes I see tons of ducklings every season in this area and I'm sure a lot don't make it due to predation. I just can't watch anything bad happen to them when their moms leave them. I know I can't save everything but at least I can try .

And he's doing great! Should be taking the cast off soon (likely in the next few days depending on how it looks during the next change).

 

[Miss Lydia]

It's so awesome to know someone that really cares for these Muscovy when it seems so many hate them and call them a nusiance. You and @ruthhope are my heros.
Keep us updated on how this little one does once cast is off.

 

[RosemaryDuck]

It's so awesome to know someone that really cares for these Muscovy when it seems so many hate them and call them a nusiance. You and @ruthhope are my heros.
Keep us updated on how this little one does once cast is off.

Thank you so much for this kind comment. Really needed to hear that today! I appreciate it! And I'll keep doing my best to help them .

 

[ruthhope]

Thank you Miss Lydia. I look after the ducks I can--mostly abandoned pekin drakes--but one of my neighbors/friends is a wildlife rehabber and she does so much more. She never says no to accepting ducklings and injured and sick ducks and geese. She has them running around everywhere -- many of them in her screen porch. This year she has had sick ones in isolation in dog crates in her garden; because of anxiety about bird 'flu she could not take them into her house. She had a special coop made for ducks and geese that cannot be released because of injury and angel wing and the like. She is amazing -- she also takes in opossums, turtles, and squirrels. I find myself gathering up bagsful of acorns for her in squirrel breeding season and so many fall out of nests when we have storms in Florida.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Be sure to tell her what a wonderful person she is for caring for these critters.

Does she have a web site? Like duck haven that cares for the Muscovy?

 

[RosemaryDuck]

Everyone is doing so good. The first 2 are in their teenage ducky scraggly phase.

Cast ducks cast was removed today and he's walking great on the leg. Gonna go ahead with swim therapy now that it's off.

 

[Miss Lydia]

If I could I'd give you a medal.