Rescue duck. Please help

[Miss Lydia]

Put your info here. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/california-southern.161/page-627

 

[Labrat2727]

Done. Hopefully someone will reply soon.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sure hope so. Lets see if @casportpony Knows anyone in SCal. that might be interested or can help.

 

[casportpony]

Oh good grief! much younger then we thought! He's going to need all the prayer he can get. All the duck rescues are too far from us. We're his best shot at survival for now. Will continue to try to find a better home for him if he makes it.

What city do you live in?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sure hope so. Lets see if @casportpony Knows anyone in SCal. that might be interested or can help.

K she is in Northridge if that helps.

 

[Chickenlover2017]

Poor thing you need to find a bin or box for him/her to live in and get a feeder and water thing do you have a tractor supply near you because you will also need wood shavings and starter chick food. Here are some pictures but I raise chickens not ducks but for ducks I think you need to put like a bucket of water for them to play in

 

[dpenning]

[QUOTE="Chickenlover2017, post: 18697144, member: 479723"Poor thing you need to find a bin or box for him/her to live in and get a feeder and water thing do you have a tractor supply near you because you will also need wood shavings and starter chick food. Here are some pictures but I raise chickens not ducks but for ducks I think you need to put like a bucket of water for them to play in[/QUOTE]

I'm not a duck person but my understanding is babies can drown if left with water unattended too young. They do not have the waterproofing on their down feathers and are typically managed/maintained by their mama's.

You may want to put a little stuffed animal in the box with them to snuggle up with if you don't have a friend for him/her. Will help when you go back to work.

 

[Chickenlover2017]

Don't do that I have some young chickens and our older chickens are so mean to the young ones it would get killed either way.

Oh, is he a mallard? I was going to find a pond to put him in with other ducks but with a torn wing, he might not make it. The injury looks old and healed over. No blood and he doesn't seem too bothered by it. His balance is off though. He falls over easily. Poor guy. He's a tough bird to survive this far.

I would give it away to someone with ducks once there wing heals

 

[Contolini6]

Sounds like the injury isn't going to kill him/her which is good. But if he is off balance and can't fly it's unlikely he is every going to be able to go by himself in the wild. I think he is a wood duck like others said above. The picture on google matches. Mallards have a dark chest with yellow spotting and the wood duck has a yellow chest.
For water we just put a small bowl with a stone in it to drink out of. They make a mess of it so you have to change it a lot. A chicken waterer works too though, and the duck won't be able to drown in that. Now that they are a little bigger out ducks love to sit and splash in their water dish as well.
What have you been feeding it? Regular chick starter for chickens often is medicated and has additional vitamins in it which can kill ducks, so you have to make sure you are getting unmedicated feed.

 

[casportpony]

Contact this place:
https://www.bird-rescue.org/contact/contact-us.aspx