- Jan 15, 2014
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Heya everyone,
I have two lovely mallards one female and one drake. The female started laying just after Christmas and she is having so much trouble with it. The eggs are perfectly fine, no soft shell or anything and normal shaped, however the eggs are a bit larger than i would have expected from this size of a duck. But for about 3 hours every morning she's quacking really loudly and abruptly. Its clear she is not very comfortable at all.
Ive called up the manufacture of the feed, I'm feeding them fancy feed waterfowl pellets and they said that it isn't a nutritional issue as she should be getting everything she needs from there feed. They also mentioned that this is common with new layers to have problems.
She also gets a bowl of oyster shell and I give her a cod liver oil capsule and a warm water bath every day because i was told that might help but nothing has changed.
Dose any one have any suggestions of how i can make her more comfortable? I thought id ask you lot before taking her to the vets incase its something i can change for her.
thanks guys
I have two lovely mallards one female and one drake. The female started laying just after Christmas and she is having so much trouble with it. The eggs are perfectly fine, no soft shell or anything and normal shaped, however the eggs are a bit larger than i would have expected from this size of a duck. But for about 3 hours every morning she's quacking really loudly and abruptly. Its clear she is not very comfortable at all.
Ive called up the manufacture of the feed, I'm feeding them fancy feed waterfowl pellets and they said that it isn't a nutritional issue as she should be getting everything she needs from there feed. They also mentioned that this is common with new layers to have problems.
She also gets a bowl of oyster shell and I give her a cod liver oil capsule and a warm water bath every day because i was told that might help but nothing has changed.
Dose any one have any suggestions of how i can make her more comfortable? I thought id ask you lot before taking her to the vets incase its something i can change for her.
thanks guys
