Duck Lovers Unite! - *A Chat Thread*

[Danish aseels]

Cooked potatoes with out skins, cooked brown rice rinsed anchovies salmon and tuna all rinsed if canned to get the sodium off. But be sure you feed a good balanced poultry diet and these are just an added supplement.

Thanks

 

[Miss Lydia]

How’s the newbie doing?

 

[Danish aseels]

How’s the newbie doing?

 

[Miss Lydia]

They are precious

 

[casportpony]

Pardon the intrusion. More entries are needed!

N F C wrote:
Official BYC Mini Contest Series - Win one of Fifty (50) 2020 BYC Calendars!
"Tell us about your hobby, show us your egg basket, let's see pictures of your handmade holiday ornaments, or your family with a favorite backyard bird. Whichever you choose, we have a contest for you and with each contest we're giving away FIVE 2020 BYC Calendars!




Here are all of our mini contests:

Official BYC Mini Contest - What is Your Hobby?

Official BYC Mini Contest - Show Us Your Flock

Official BYC Mini Contest - Sneaky Broodies!

Official BYC Mini Contest - Handmade Holiday Decorations

Official BYC Mini Contest - Funny poultry faces and poses

Official BYC Mini Contest - Family and Fowl

Official BYC Mini Contest - Decorate a Cake, Cupcake or Cookie

Official BYC Mini Contest - Egg Basket Photo Contest

Official BYC Mini Contest - Fabulous Feather Photos

Official BYC Mini Contest - Flapping Fowl

Entries for all mini contests will be accepted until and including 9 December 2019 so don't wait too long to join in on the fun!"

 

[Claires Poultry]

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Bahaha!

 

[Claires Poultry]

I'm loving everyone's duck pictures!
Y'all have gorgeous ducks!

 

[Danish aseels]

Sadly today one of my duckling died from a brooder malfunction. The brooder over heated so much that the chicks and ducklings started to have heat stroke and be cooked alive.The whole 22 chicks and 1 duckling survived but 1 duckling could not make it. I Don’t know when this malfunction Started to happen as when I woke up in the morning I went out side to look at my chicks and duckling and saw all of them on the floor panting in a corner so I immediately turned off the heat lamp and changed the water with cold water as the water in the brooder had gotten hot and put a cpu fan on the top of the brooder lid Made of hardwire cloth and misted the brooder with a spray bottle to lower the brooder temperature and gave each chick and duckling water (in which I had mixed electrolytes) with a syringe as they were to exhausted to drink on there own, after giving them water with a syringe they started to Perk up and drink on there own and they fully recovered except 1 duckling which sadly died. how can I prevent this from happening again?


(sorry for bad grammar and spelling mistakes)

 

[Miss Lydia]

I am so sorry this happened. Where you using a heat lamp? 250 bulb? with out a thermometer hard to keep track of temps and they can over heat.
I bought a heat plate for my ducklings that hatched this year but a lot of members make their own using this
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/building-a-momma-heat-cave-for-ducklings.74714/

 

[Danish aseels]

I am so sorry this happened. Where you using a heat lamp? 250 bulb? with out a thermometer hard to keep track of temps and they can over heat.
I bought a heat plate for my ducklings that hatched this year but a lot of members make their own using this
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/building-a-momma-heat-cave-for-ducklings.74714/

I was using a 60w bulb