Duck on duck crime

[chickens really]

If they are almost 6 weeks it sounds like possibly boredom and the Brooder is too small. They need to be outside. Weeds and fresh veggies are good for them. What feed are they on?

 

[Miss Lydia]

If the little one has an injury to it's leg rest and warm water therapy with vitamins for support is the way to treat. Once the leg has healed then exercise other than water therapy is recommended. You don't want the little one trying to run around outside wanting to keep up and make the injury worse.

 

[Ducklingbabys]

The two small ones are being keep in the house roght now for there safety the big guy has not attacked any of the others with him at this time

 

[chickens really]

The two small ones are being keep in the house roght now for there safety the big guy has not attacked any of the others with him at this time

Many times organic feed is the issue. Try and find feed that's for Ducks, turkeys, Geese and chickens. All flock feed.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Dumor organic crumble is probably great feed but if it doesn’t say it’s for all poultry then it’s lacking in the niacin water fowl need to have strong legs. So niacin needs to be supplemented I don’t know how much niacin is In the poultry booster. It may not have enough and Pekin really need it in their diets to develop normally. You might want to pick up some liquid BComplex at TSC and start this one and any others on it it’s the best we have seen in the last couple years for helping one that already has problems. I ml daily for each duckling over something yummy usually takes less than a week to start seeing improvement. It will say injectable but just peel off the foil and use a dropper.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Ask sales people to help if you can’t find it.

 

[Ducklingbabys]

 

[Miss Lydia]

@casportpony can you tell if this a the amount of niacin for waterfowl? I don’t know how to break it down. Thanks.

 

[Knighstar679]

If you can get the ducklings that are having problems to consume a whole tablespoon of this by themselves they are only getting 31 mgs of extra niacin. If they are having problems they should be getting closer to 100 mg of niacin extra a day as I understand it. That means 4 tablespoon per duckling per day that you have to make sure they get with this vitamin. The cattle vitamin that @Miss Lydia is recommending has 100mg in 1ml and the bottle contains 250 ml. It is much easier to get into the ducklings a lesser dose than 4 .5 oz doses or 2 oz a day.

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony can you tell if this a the amount of niacin for waterfowl? I don’t know how to break it down. Thanks.

The scoop it came with (1/3 ounce or 9.44 grams) contains ~20 mg niacin.