Swollen Leg ad Bare Skin

[Isaac 0]

Ok, great!

Your ducks are still too young to be out in freezing temps, they need a draft-free area that has a heat source maintaining around 70-75 degrees.

 

[Breathingwebfarms]

I have plenty of heat lamps. I have no where to put them in the house. We raised and sell broilers and just got our first batch of 100 today for the year. We do 100 every month. I was planning to move the ducks out today as they are 4.5 weeks old.

i had them in the garage before butit got so nasty we moved them out and cleaned it up. I can put them back in there I suppose but would need to build them a much larger brooder.

 

[Breathingwebfarms]

How much space you recommend? Maybe I can use two brooders

 

[Miss Lydia]

According to Dave Holderread who has much more experience than any of the rest of us, Storeys Guide to Raising Ducks says for L breed like Pekin they need 10sq foot of space per bird. And access to outside pen on nice days.

 

[Isaac 0]

Do you have a picture of what you're keeping them in now?

 

[Breathingwebfarms]

Now or as adults? They will move to pasture and be rotationally grazed as adults

 

[Breathingwebfarms]

Do you have a picture of what you're keeping them in now?

 

[Breathingwebfarms]

Update:

Gave the duckling the vitamin b complex. She’s not eating so we gave it orally. drinking a little after but she can’t keep it down.

we sprayed poultry vetircyn as well. It appears to be bumble foot.

 

[Isaac 0]

She didn't want to eat the treats with B complex or she is not eating anything?

 

[Isaac 0]

That's an old photo correct? At one month they'd be much bigger and would have limited space to move in a 4x4 brooder.