Does ANYONE Have Any Questions About Ducks? Anything can be Asked and Everything Will be Answered.

[happy duck]

My females tend to lose feathers on their heads too. As long as the skin doesn't start getting sore and open wound not much you can do. maybe make little helmets!

I have no idea what would take sap off of feathers. maybe goo gone but not sure that would be safe to use on a duck.

I wish I could. I took a pic of here head(I will post in a minute) and there does seem to be a bloody looking scab. I have some poultry wound spray I can spray on it. I go to thinking...would the spray have a bad enough taste that Jeffery(drake) won't care to mate(if he taste it)? I hope so...that would give her head a break.

I accidentally thrown paint on mine.. well, more, they forcefully wanted to be around me while painting...anyway. Molting helped :')
I could have used something to get it off; but that would involve something that could disrupt their water-proof feathers and start them leaking.
I guess; when the duck has no problem with it; leave it on. Otherwise maybe try a natural oil gently? Sap is quite sticky, so if it needs a thurough rubbing to get it off I would personally just let it go away when feathers are replaced. Execive rubbing might do more dammage then the sap just being there? You know best.

Ok thanks! I have noticed it is getting smaller and smaller so I guess it will come off. It is more on his face where the feathers are more like fur so there is no way that a molt could take it off(I am sure they don't molt the feathers from there face). Here is a pic..but it is really not needed. If you look close you can see it on his face. Thanks again guys...great info...and very helpful!

 

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I wish I could. I took a pic of here head(I will post in a minute) and there does seem to be a bloody looking scab. I have some poultry wound spray I can spray on it. I go to thinking...would the spray have a bad enough taste that Jeffery(drake) won't care to mate(if he taste it)? I hope so...that would give her head a break.


Ok thanks! I have noticed it is getting smaller and smaller so I guess it will come off. It is more on his face where the feathers are more like fur so there is no way that a molt could take it off(I am sure they don't molt the feathers from there face). Here is a pic..but it is really not needed. If you look close you can see it on his face. Thanks again guys...great info...and very helpful!

Also face-feathers molt, just not so visiably. Just like your eye-lashes and eyebrows and arm-hair are also replaced by new ones, but it isn't a noticable as the hair on your head that might be in bunches in your comb or shower-drain. So this will eventually grow out. If it is not harming the duck, maybe just leave it be untill it grows out, and tell him a 'beauty-mark' on the face is one of the 7 beauty wonders
What a cuty-pie btw.

 

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Also face-feathers molt, just not so visiably. Just like your eye-lashes and eyebrows and arm-hair are also replaced by new ones, but it isn't a noticable as the hair on your head that might be in bunches in your comb or shower-drain. So this will eventually grow out. If it is not harming the duck, maybe just leave it be untill it grows out, and tell her a 'beauty-mark' on the face is one of the 7 beauty wonders
What a cuty-pie btw.

WOW!! I had no they molt on the face. I always learn new things on BYC. Yeah...I was just planning on leaving it. I think he is real cute too.

 

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I took a pic of her head(I will post in a minute)

 

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WOW!! I had no they molt on the face. I always learn new things on BYC. Yeah...I was just planning on leaving it. I think he is real cute too.

I'm sorry, I don't think I used the right term. Molting does not really fit I guess.
ALL their feathers and skin-cells keeps replacing non-stop, just like on our body's. Molting is the period where they do it heavy because of the change of seasons. I guess at that time the feathers on their face might also be changed more rapid.
But; what I wanted to say for anyone reading and being in a similour situation in the future; no matter molting-season or not; it will grow out, because they allways create new feathers. Just during molting season more rapidly. So it allways grow out eventually.

 

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I'm sorry, I don't think I used the right term. Molting does not really fit I guess.
ALL their feathers and skin-cells keeps replacing non-stop, just like on our body's. Molting is the period where they do it heavy because of the change of seasons. I guess at that time the feathers on their face might also be changed more rapid.
But; what I wanted to say for anyone reading and being in a similour situation in the future; no matter molting-season or not; it will grow out, because they allways create new feathers. Just during molting season more rapidly. So it allways grow out eventually.

Yeah that is what I guessed you where saying...