Hello! Just bought a farm and already have out chicks and ducklings!

[aforshee]

Greetings! My family and I just bought a farm and were so excited to get started we ordered our first chicks (15 ended up with 20

) the same day we closed! Later that weekend while getting supplies from the store we saw ducklings and were smitten.. so we added 4 ducks to our homestead. All are doing very well! We have concerns about our one Peking duck however. He is about 4 weeks old and at about 2 1/2 weeks we started noticing his legs were really turning inward to where he could barely walk. I read to add niacin and/or brewers yeast to supplement, so I have been now daily. Haven't seen any improvements and he is also having other symptoms now. He doesn't seem to be growing at the same rate as our other Peking duck. Yesterday I noticed that his bill has an odd colored spot on his bill (reddish orange) and it looks like he may have diarrhea now. Please help with any suggestions! I'm really concerned

Thanks for any input!

 

[Pork Pie]

Hello and welcome to BYC - congrats on your new farm and your new birds!

I'd suggest asking about your duck on this forum - https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/42/ducks - I hope that someone will be able to help you out.

Good luck
CT

 

[sunflour]

glad to have you join us.


So sorry about the issues with your duckling - hope someone with experience shows up with help on your problem.

 

[aforshee]

Thanks for the suggestion! I posted on the duck blog.. hopefully we'll get some answers soon!

 

[drumstick diva]

 

[Teila]

G’Day from down under aforeshee

Welcome & Congratulations!

I hope your little ducking is OK.

I also hope you enjoy being a BYC member. There are lots of friendly and very helpful folks here so not only is it overflowing with useful information it is also a great place to make friends and have some fun.

You might want to also pop in and say hello on your local thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/26/where-am-i-where-are-you ‘Find your State’s thread.

If you would like to share pictures and stories of your flock, you have come to the right place. BYC’ers never tire of these and do not back away slowly or commence eye rolling when the photo album or home videos come out