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[rainbowchicks]

Mr. Shivers is doing alot better. He isnt back outside. I did get some spray for his foot and eye ointment. I also have been giving him an oral antibiotic and vitamins and electrolytes in his drinking water. He still hisses when we go by and try to talk to him. I hear him chirping to himself though... hoping for a quick recovery!!

 

[MandyJ]

Ma'am, lol, I wish you could have seen the look on my face as I candled the eggs and they were, every single one of them, furtile. I was horrified/excited/scared. I went right out and picked up every single duck and listened. Sure enough, when he quacked I knew what I'd done. He had no turned up tail feather, I thought for sure he was a girl.
Lesson learned, it's up to eight ducklings now. She had another in the nest when she came to be put to bed. <3

I can so see that happening to me! These are the first ducks I have ever had. I just didn't know what I was getting into.

GREAT, 8 ducklings!!!

M

 

[tracyjg]

autopsy on those eggs shrink wrap badly membrane stuck to an eye. What appeared to me to be mold. 6 had ducks in them under developed in them 1 real bad. 5 almost there. One was like I first incubated them. A few eggs had blood and vains no duck. Yolk green and black goo. I praying the ones outside with ducks our good. They will not leave both nests.

 

[tracyjg]

No eggs outside hatch I will look tomorrow . Waiting on my baby's. I need prayers

 

[tracyjg]

Sometimes there to quick.fast. They have no reasoning to think that the baby will drown. It's your job to make sure they don't drown. I had a brand new chicken only a few hrs old die in the water dish. I went to change the ducks over to the other coop but took 5 mins to put something away in my hands so I could grab the older ones.

 

[tracyjg]

Sometimes there to quick.fast. They have no reasoning to think that the baby will drown. It's your job to make sure they don't drown. I had a brand new chicken only a few hrs old die in the water dish. I went to change the ducks over to the other coop but took 5 mins to put something away in my hands so I could grab the older ones. Or get hurt drake and other females around. Sometimes pets get injured in the process or sick. It's our job to protect or little ones.

 

[tracyjg]

Animals don't have human reasoning skills. Or logic skills. There brains don't work like humans. There brains say I have to eat I have to find water. Predictor or not.drakes and other females don't have the same freidships and pack like humans. It's our job to learn and correct mistakes

 

[tracyjg]

I put my drake in a smaller cage in my chicken coop. I have one outside at moment. And two moms our in there coop. I couldn't move them . There sheltered in there dog house. From storms. Males I don't think they want to hurt them. But have a raw instinct that says these little one doesn't belong here. Take a bath to them isn't what humans think and do.human brain reasons. Usually (animal brain has no reasoning skills. They base there skills on instincts breaded in them.

 

[lovemy mallards]

This was the first time for me, I tried doing everything I was suppose to we candled them 3 days earlier we new she was getting close.
but everything I read about said some DRAKES do good, He was super protective of mommy on the nest, IT WAS THE WORST FEELING TO WALK UP AND SEE THIS!

I was so mad at myself.. but when I found it I panicked { my kids were with me} so they seen what he had done. My daughter is 10 and she really took charge and helped me. I had already dumped the water with3 in it out. and while we were out of sight he got cheep cheep and had already moved him out on the ground. and we were trying to take care of him get back outside and he had already pulled another out of the nest.

she helped me separate him from mom . and MOM done so good after that we put cheep cheep back in the nest. then someone told me I had to be wrong that they had never heard of the drake doing that. so my husband let Donald our drake back with mom{daisy} we were out there finishing the bigger pin and we seen him jump on her back peck her in the neck and grab little duckie momo by the neck and run and drop him in the pool. so we had no choice but to put him in a cage next to her.. do you think he will be ok, in a small cage for a couple days? I know they both seem happier with him close...

THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP! I'VE MET SOME GREAT PEOPLE ON THIS SITE.. AND GOT SO MUCH GOOD ADVICE!!

 

[neduckmomma504]

Please remove me from this list. Thanks!