Solitary confinement or keeping a molting duck out of the rain/wind?

[austroberta]

Sadly, we got your rain.

Well, hopefully your rain will be like ours. It came and went and then there was sun and blue skies. Yippee! It's still a bit windy, however. I'm actually more unhappy about the wind this season than the rain.

 

[casportpony]

Hopefully this will blow through quickly, then I pray we get a bunch of sun to dry stuff up.

The wind! Yuck! There was one day a couple of weeks back where the wind blew apart my peafowl grow out pen. Scary! I was right there when a strong wind came in from the west and caught my pen just right. Thing lifted off just like a kite!

 

[austroberta]

Hopefully this will blow through quickly, then I pray we get a bunch of sun to dry stuff up.

The wind! Yuck! There was one day a couple of weeks back where the wind blew apart my peafowl grow out pen. Scary! I was right there when a strong wind came in from the west and caught my pen just right. Thing lifted off just like a kite!

Wow! That is scary!

 

[casportpony]

Wow! That is scary!

Peafowl everywhere, lol. Craziest wind I have ever seen. Looked outside and saw hail blowing literally horizontal and thought to myself "oh no, that's not good" .

 

[austroberta]

Yeah, about 90 minutes south of you and this year has been hard on the ones with scruffy feather coats, so I can relate. is this the same one that was laying soft shelled eggs?

Sage, the with the soft-shelled egg, was active and chatty this morning, but now she is quiet and by herself. I expected to get an egg from her this morning, since I got the shell-less egg, but didn't see anything. I notice her tail/abdomen is very lightly pulsating. Should I be concerned? Is it normal for a newly laying duck to lay one day and then nothing the next?

She has oyster shell calcium freely available but I haven't seen her eat it.

 

[casportpony]

Some of mine will get real quiet, almost depressed while they are getting that egg ready. If she hasn't lais by tomorrow you might want to give her some time in a tub of warm water.

 

[casportpony]

Do you have any human calcium pills? If so, you could give her 1/2 of one.

 

[austroberta]

Some of mine will get real quiet, almost depressed while they are getting that egg ready. If she hasn't lais by tomorrow you might want to give her some time in a tub of warm water.

That is what she's like....very quiet and introspectively sad looking. She was chatty and happy this morning. I hope she's alright.

My 1st round of ducks always laid eggs in the morning. Do ducks lay at different times? Say the afternoon, for example?

 

[austroberta]

Do you have any human calcium pills? If so, you could give her 1/2 of one.

I don't have calcium pills, but I do have calcium carbonate. The powdered kind. How would I give it to her so she'll actually get it? I could put it in her water but she's a real clutz and would probably trip over it and spill it.

 

[austroberta]

She is laying down underneath my citrus tree, which has very low hanging branches, so she is somewhat hidden. I don't see her breathing heavily, so I don't think she is straining.

Sorry for all the questions. My past ducks had seamless egg laying experiences-- I opened up the door to their house in the morning and voila! Eggs! With nice hard shells.