My duck/chicken life

[rjohns39]

10 ducklings of cuteness, plus 12 pretty adolescents, 4 graceful adult ducks, 20 clucky chickens, 4 adorable dogs, and 2 sweet kitties make heaven for me

Sounds wonderful... for me it's an LGD, 40 chickens, 15 ducks and 13 turkeys.

 

[rjohns39]

All of my birds are locked up. LGD is recovering from an injury and I've got both fox and coons working the pastures hard.

 

[Anime2lover]

Sounds wonderful... for me it's an LGD, 40 chickens, 15 ducks and 13 turkeys.

We had a turkey, but he became turkey dinner last thanks giving. Got to aggressive and took a chunk off of my mule ducks dad elvis's face. Poor muscovy was house bound for days as we wanted to give it time to heal. We didnt know what happened at first but when I tried to put him outside again, I heard a loud ruckous coming from the back part of the coop that didnt stop, so I ran to check it out and saw tom the turkey and elvis fi fighting their buts off. Elvis earned new scratches but tom was unscathed.

Heres the first part of that story.

I went outside in the morning to take care of the animals and I saw our last two pekins had blood on them, so I went to check them out, but found nothing, so I had to search around to figure out where it came from. Id already spotted elvis, but because of the originally red lumpy face muscovys have, didnt see the injury, so I was scratching my head trying to figure it out. Its only when I got close to elvis that I notice he wasnt running away crom me like usual, so I decided to check him out. Thats when I noticed the big chunk of his bulbous face had been cleanly removed. After that, it took hours to get him cleaned up good enough to really check the injury. He was so shocked that he actually fell asleep in my bath tub..... Until I moved him to our indoor brooder.

 

[rjohns39]

Turkeys can be aggressive. I made the mistake of trying to separate them with a fence, when I setup my breeding pens. They tore the fence down. I put up plywood and they tore that down.

 

[Anime2lover]

Turkeys can be aggressive. I made the mistake of trying to separate them with a fence, when I setup my breeding pens. They tore the fence down. I put up plywood and they tore that down.

The people of white house on the hill seem to have their together just fine. I wonder how.

 

[rjohns39]

The people of white house on the hill seem to have their together just fine. I wonder how.

They do just fine without a fence. They will do their occasional snood pulling contest. but other than they they are fine. Putting a fence between them is what causes them to go wacko.

 

[Anime2lover]

They do just fine without a fence. They will do their occasional snood pulling contest. but other than they they are fine. Putting a fence between them is what causes them to go wacko.

Oh, mine was fenced in together, never a fence between the turkey and our other animals. That is until tom injured elvis.

 

[Anime2lover]

Today, I went to give the ducklings play water and accidently left the house on. It flooded a good half inch of the ground in the little brooder. Completely filled mommas little dust bathing spot. So the ducklings had a field day trying to do zoomies in a puddle of water that only eight of them could fit in XD. Of course, baby, our chick and their broodmate, didnt enjoy it so much.

 

[rjohns39]

Chickens aren't huge fans of water/swimming unless it's hot out. On hot days the chickens are standing in every water bowl.

 

[Anime2lover]

We have been letting the ducklings and their mom in the outside brooder I made with my other brooder and chick during the day, and theyve gotten along fine during those times, so we decided yesterday to let them stay out their full time. But when I got up today and went to check on and watch the animals, I saw this.

We treated the injury already though, but I hope the duckling doesnt go into shock. I did not see how, when, or where the injury was gotten, but know for sure that it was definitely only a matter of an hour or two. What I also saw, was duckling momma was being unusually aggressive toward the other hens chick, so we think the other hen got the duckling. But right now, the duckling, and one sibling, are being kept in our inside brooder.