Duckling Thread!

[HuffleClaw]

View attachment 1738418 This will keep you company, @HuffleClaw View attachment 1738414

Awwwww

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Yeah. I got rid of the grey, he was too big. I finally got a hatch of mostly girls this fall and it turns out to be a problem.
True. If I had a 90 percent hatch rate, people would pass out when they walked through the door, from the smell of it.

Apparently the person who bought a dozen of my hatching eggs says he doesn't mind there is only a 40 percent hatch rate, when I reminded him. He says he has way too many eggs as it is and gets excited when they are infertile. I'm starting to relate.

It’s a good smell though
I don’t mind it—

 

[HuffleClaw]

My ducks require me to clean the brooder a minimum of 2 times a day to keep things "scent-free"

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Since airflow comes in and out of my brooder i dont smell it...

 

[Texag87]

I have been to two TSC looking for the chick starter we used in the fall. All they have in the small bags is what they call organic with 19% protein. We are already cleaning once a day with only 5 ducklings. Last fall it was two weeks before we had to clean once a day with 9 . Still, not meaning to offend chicken people, ducks do no stink compared to chickens.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Great pics @FluffTheDuck wasnt another of your ducklings acting off? Is it okay now?

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Great pics @FluffTheDuck wasnt another of your ducklings acting off? Is it okay now?

Yes! Smokey was. She is doing great now! No more wobbling of the neck. One of my Cayugas is having seizures though but I found out it can be from fear or a nutritional deficiency so I put that nutritional powder in the water and so far no seizures or acting drunk.
edit to add that Olive, is the cayuga that was having seizures

 

[FluffTheDuck]

I never realized how lucky I was with Quakers and Donald as babies without any happening to them. I was such a newbie then And nothing happened!

 

[Texag87]

I never realized how lucky I was with Quakers and Donald as babies without any happening to them. I was such a newbie then And nothing happened!

We were the same way last fall.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

We were the same way last fall.

Us two are lucky!