First question: He doesn't seem to want to walk??? I mean he DOES walk sometimes and seems rather normal but when I pick him up and put him back in his cage he lays where I put him and when I reach back in to try and get him to walk he kind of scootches himself? I started putting vitamins in his water today. Has anybody else noticed this with their young muscovies? Is it maybe because he is just scared? We are trying to handle him as much as possible because I want him semi handable when he gets bigger as Elvis knew how to throw his weight around and he wasn't handled at all when he was younger/
Second question: We got him yesterday at a tailgate sale. He's about 8 weeks old. When I say "his cage" it means he is in a big dog crate in the barn....thought it was best after the night he had. We went down this morning and he was all bloody....so we let the ducks out and I checked him out and somebody **cough cough the gander cough cough** ripped out and broke quite a bit of his pin feathers on his left wing. He seems ok, just scared. So we watched them pretty much all day and he would squeeze himself between the kiddie pool and the fence so nobody could get at him. Then we ran up and got lunch and came back down and he wasn't outside so I looked in the barn and he was squeezed underneath the feed trough with Ellie (our black and white girl) chirping at him
that's when I decided to put him in the dog crate and give him his own food and water until he got a little bigger, although he's bigger then our ducks right now) and gets a little more comfortable with everybody. My other question is....will his wing heal? Will his feathers come back in ok?
This picture clearly shows he can stand up and walk.
Second question: We got him yesterday at a tailgate sale. He's about 8 weeks old. When I say "his cage" it means he is in a big dog crate in the barn....thought it was best after the night he had. We went down this morning and he was all bloody....so we let the ducks out and I checked him out and somebody **cough cough the gander cough cough** ripped out and broke quite a bit of his pin feathers on his left wing. He seems ok, just scared. So we watched them pretty much all day and he would squeeze himself between the kiddie pool and the fence so nobody could get at him. Then we ran up and got lunch and came back down and he wasn't outside so I looked in the barn and he was squeezed underneath the feed trough with Ellie (our black and white girl) chirping at him
that's when I decided to put him in the dog crate and give him his own food and water until he got a little bigger, although he's bigger then our ducks right now) and gets a little more comfortable with everybody. My other question is....will his wing heal? Will his feathers come back in ok?This picture clearly shows he can stand up and walk.
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