Ducks & Dandruffs?

[QuakieChan]

Hello everyone!
We let her bathe daily sometimes more than once and always supervised. She is very good at preening herself. However, after she is done preening and dry again, we still see bits of white stuff on her. It looks like little dust particles but it doesn't seem to be irritating her or making her itch at all. It's just there... We recently got another baby duck to keep her company. He didn't have it when we got him yesterday, but we saw it on him this morning. Any ideas?

 

[Ravynscroft]

Hello everyone!
We let her bathe daily sometimes more than once and always supervised. She is very good at preening herself. However, after she is done preening and dry again, we still see bits of white stuff on her. It looks like little dust particles but it doesn't seem to be irritating her or making her itch at all. It's just there... We recently got another baby duck to keep her company. He didn't have it when we got him yesterday, but we saw it on him this morning. Any ideas?

How old is your duckling?

They absolutely do shed off dust just as much as chickens do while growing... the reason is, as the feathers start growing out, the feather sheath crumbles off and that is what they are preening off themselves... any time any bird with feathers molts, same thing happens...

I call it chaff, and it looks very, very similar to dander...

 

[chickens really]

Hello everyone!
We let her bathe daily sometimes more than once and always supervised. She is very good at preening herself. However, after she is done preening and dry again, we still see bits of white stuff on her. It looks like little dust particles but it doesn't seem to be irritating her or making her itch at all. It's just there... We recently got another baby duck to keep her company. He didn't have it when we got him yesterday, but we saw it on him this morning. Any ideas?

Everyone and everything has skin...Don't worry about it it's nothing...

 

[Amiga]

As new feathers come in, the “wrapper” flakes apart and leaves tiny waxy particles everywhere.