Learning all I can about call ducks !

[WVduckchick]

They really are fast, to be so little!!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

@Duckymomma82 your welcome to post here too ducky momma. I got some ducky friends here

 

[Duckymomma82]

Thank you. Well first my duckling is 2 weeks old about 3-4 days ago I noticed he was peking/itching his yellow fur and his has a little partial bald spot you can see when he gets wet. Then 2 days ago he started having some diarrhea but also he still has solid poo throughout the day too. I gave him green beans 2days ago and yesterday and today scrambled eggs for treats he loves them . His normal food is chicken starter feed . I clean his bedding quite often but I have caught him eatting his poo in the last couple days I stop him when I see him doing it though. One more thing when will he start getting his adult feathers and I don't know what kind of duck he is he's a wild baby duckling that was abandoned.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Thank you. Well first my duckling is 2 weeks old about 3-4 days ago I noticed he was peking/itching his yellow fur and his has a little partial bald spot you can see when he gets wet. Then 2 days ago he started having some diarrhea but also he still has solid poo throughout the day too. I gave him green beans 2days ago and yesterday and today scrambled eggs for treats he loves them . His normal food is chicken starter feed . I clean his bedding quite often but I have caught him eatting his poo in the last couple days I stop him when I see him doing it though. One more thing when will he start getting his adult feathers and I don't know what kind of duck he is he's a wild baby duckling that was abandoned.

No idea what it is either, but it looks like an albino... too cute!!

 

[Ravynscroft]

¿ What do you mean by 'her partners' ?

I mean her broody partners, lol... look below and you'll see...

The drakes in her group.

Actually, nope, but good guess... this is a broody group...

Is there only one father of the whole clutch?

Nope, I have multiple drakes... and multiple contributing ducks laid the eggs in the nests...

These are 3 that went broody in the same doghouse together on 3 different nests... they ended up combining their nests and they hatched their ducklings together and are now raising them together... working out exceptionally well too, since Wicket has brooded before and the other 2 it is their first clutch...

Blue fawn on left, dark phase grey in middle and grey pied (Wicket) on right... they have 21 ducklings they are raising together...

 

[Julie Birb]

I can't tell if it's Juice or Neptune drinking out of the hole (that's the drain from the gutter on the back of the house, they love when it fills up with water lol)
And the little ones stick together like they are tied with strings. they rarely get very far from each other. I don't want to clip their wings, but they sure are learning to fly! Their main run has netting over it, but the rest of the yard doesn't. I'd just die if one flew away!!

Well, the hole drinking scene is cute. Ish. Me too. That scares me. I'd hate to see them fly off too. It's a dilemma.

 

[Julie Birb]

No idea what it is either, but it looks like an albino... too cute!!

I agree. That little duckling is adorable. Very.

 

[Julie Birb]

I didn't wanna clip mine either but I have train tracks behind my house and thanks to our pal ralphie I got bad mental images of them flying back there and getting on the tracks! Lol if I need to corral them fast for some reason I don't want them flying away from me. They are fast enough as is!!

That scares me.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Thank you. Well first my duckling is 2 weeks old about 3-4 days ago I noticed he was peking/itching his yellow fur and his has a little partial bald spot you can see when he gets wet. Then 2 days ago he started having some diarrhea but also he still has solid poo throughout the day too. I gave him green beans 2days ago and yesterday and today scrambled eggs for treats he loves them . His normal food is chicken starter feed . I clean his bedding quite often but I have caught him eatting his poo in the last couple days I stop him when I see him doing it though. One more thing when will he start getting his adult feathers and I don't know what kind of duck he is he's a wild baby duckling that was abandoned.

i wouldnt worry about the itching, he is starting to get real feathers and they itch like crazy
same with diarrhea, just keep an eyeout
food- chick starter is not what ducks need, i would switch to an all-flock type crumble, TSC sells Purina all-flock
chick starter is too low in protein and does not have the right nutrition for ducks

also keep in mind you will want to add niacin to its food to stave off leg issues
you can use nutritional yest, brewers yest or get niacin tablets at the drugstore

Good Luck!!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

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Thank you. Well first my duckling is 2 weeks old about 3-4 days ago I noticed he was peking/itching his yellow fur and his has a little partial bald spot you can see when he gets wet. Then 2 days ago he started having some diarrhea but also he still has solid poo throughout the day too. I gave him green beans 2days ago and yesterday and today scrambled eggs for treats he loves them . His normal food is chicken starter feed . I clean his bedding quite often but I have caught him eatting his poo in the last couple days I stop him when I see him doing it though. One more thing when will he start getting his adult feathers and I don't know what kind of duck he is he's a wild baby duckling that was abandoned.

Sorry I went to bed before I saw your post last night. Anyone feel free to correct anything I say on here I'm fairly new at this too but here goes. First if your feeding chic starter it doesn't have enough niacin in it and you will need to to give it brewers yeast or some kind of niacin supplement. I don't know if that would have anything to do with the balding though, does he have a playmate? Possibly could be nervous or bored behavior? As far as diarreah I'm not sure how tour supposed to tell if a duck has diarrhea or not it will depend on their water intake and what they eat. So if it's not constant totally runny I wouldn't be too worried about that one. As far as eating poo goes.. Birds are just kinda gross and they nibble everything!! I wouldn't worry about that either unless you believe its ingesting large quantities of it! If you watch close I bet its not swallowing much of it they just have to check everything out to see if they can eat it lol