The khaki-Campbell duck Thread !!!!!!!!

[kabhyper1]

Hard to say, ducks can be hard to diagnose. Do his eyes droop at all and is he having difficulty breathing? I would get some electrolytes in his water right away and also give him some nutri-drench. You can get both at the feed store.

PS - Are you feeding the same feed you feed the chicks? If it is medicated chick feed that could be the culprit. Ducks have different protein and niacin requirements than chickens and medicated chick feed can be harmful to ducks.

No he/she is fine. No other symptoms, and I havent heard a sneeze since I gave her a deeper one. She has now decided her water dish is a swimming hole.She sits in it splashing around. It's funny, but now I have to think of a better solution. I have all of those things here, so I will use them if I need to. They currently have ACV, brewers yeast, and drench in their water that she is playing in.

 

[DeeEinstein]

Well hopefully at some point maybe they'll warm up to me. I'd hate for them to always be afraid.. does everyone feel as if they would be ok with our hen? I plan on putting them together in the same coop. My only concern would be that my hen is extremely friendly and loves being around my dog but with the ducks being so skiddish, I don't know if I should keep them separate? Also, what all do you find to be the best thing to use in their brooding area so that it stays as clean as possible?

 

[Carcajou]

No he/she is fine. No other symptoms, and I havent heard a sneeze since I gave her a deeper one. She has now decided her water dish is a swimming hole.She sits in it splashing around. It's funny, but now I have to think of a better solution. I have all of those things here, so I will use them if I need to. They currently have ACV, brewers yeast, and drench in their water that she is playing in.

You might try using a butter tub for a waterer. You can cut a hole in the lid big enough for the little one to get its head in and drink and wash its eyes.
Here are a couple of links:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/52173/less-mess-duckling-water/10
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/426909/non-spill-duckling-waterer/10

 

[Carcajou]

Well hopefully at some point maybe they'll warm up to me. I'd hate for them to always be afraid.. does everyone feel as if they would be ok with our hen? I plan on putting them together in the same coop. My only concern would be that my hen is extremely friendly and loves being around my dog but with the ducks being so skiddish, I don't know if I should keep them separate? Also, what all do you find to be the best thing to use in their brooding area so that it stays as clean as possible?

They will eventually get used to you but you may never be able to pet them but as I said, Khakis are mostly that way. I don't have chickens but I have read where drakes will try and breed hens which can be life threatening for the hen. There are some folks who do keep ducks and chickens together and maybe one of them will respond. I recommend flake wood shavings for the brooder area. Ducklings are messy so there will be some daily cleanup and adding of shavings.

Good luck!

 

[laughingdog]

Hello! just got half a dozen KCs on the seventh. had them in big tote tub bout fifty gallons, on "flock raiser", recommended even by dave holderhead, as well as the TSC were got them.. right off in line to buy i noticed

one was off and another not doing ok as rest were, woman in charge of chick days area said they were all same and they were ok and just take them. rest in tub were still heaped in tight piles halfway up tubs, probly trying to get to too high lamp, so figured maybe the gwo got piled on or not on pile enough to get warm, and weren't getting enough from only one feeder and waterer for hundred or more ducks (all other tubs were clean empty and had feed heat and water though). so i set these up right not supplementing as sunfresh flock raiser said so, along with others.. fast forward and all my ducks, even scovy duck out penned are having leg ect troubles bad, and KCs are really bowlegged bent and twisted up and trembling suddenly. i bought niacin granular capsules to empty grind up and add to drinking water last evening, and already this morn seeing better seeming ducklings! don't use flock raiser its apparently a scam, as co-op layer replacement chick feed worked ok for scovy ducklings out in gravel pen for about two months, before that was using dumar unmedicated chick and duckling feed but it made them poop and stink terribly for first couple weeks maybe.

 

[laughingdog]

These seem build wise before legs got bad, as more runner looking as two stand and run straight as a pole, downturned sloping beaks and long thin bodies. so went by runner standards of keeping in that they'd need a lot more room, sun, greens, and bugs,than chicks n other ducks to get enough muscle strength to support their unique stature ect, as mine run and don't waddle. i figured how to stop mine from being skiddish.. just whistle chirp or quack a certain way when feed/treat them, as after second time doing to now i have to knock them over to do anythin in brooder, and they constantly are playing all over under and around me when I'm trying to clean ect (not to forget to mention them trying to swallow my fingers and eat my hand sleeve ect). I bribed them with dandilion greens, so either that was key as well as bff bribeing with lettuce, or just that they got over being terrified quick, or got good strain (i have to push them to get to move out of way. the whisting when feed works with all pets, especially birds allowed free flight outside, especially when fed when whistle ect at dusk ect, before let loose (used to do with rescued parrots ect to get them exercise).

 

[Marissa Van]

He is sneezing a bit, what could that be? It just started today. He acts fine otherwise. Here he is with the girls

How old is your KC?

 

[DeeEinstein]

What are some good treats for my ducklings as far as veggies go?

 

[Carcajou]

Lettuce (not iceberg), tomatoes, peas, to name a few. Here is a good link:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/242460/the-ultimate-list-of-duck-treats-and-supplements

 

[kabhyper1]

How old is your KC?

She will be 3 weeks on wednesday. She is a big girl. LOL Maybe boy, hoping girl. I see little shoulder feathers coming in that look kinda dark and I hear a little raspy quack sometimes. Time will tell. Her name is Scrappy.