The Migratory/Ornamental Waterfowl INFO Thread

[KansasKid]

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Wish i could hold my birds. mine won't let me get 4ft from em without being nervous as all get out.

 

[kangababy]

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Wish i could hold my birds. mine won't let me get 4ft from em without being nervous as all get out.

Well I normally wouldn't mind but knowing its because they don't feel good is not why...

 

[KansasKid]

Ya that sucks. Hope they get better for you.

 

[kangababy]

Well hopefully good news... Dad got wormer today and was going to get the teal and worm it.. Needless to say in the daylight he couldn't catch a single bird!! So hopefully she was ok

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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yep that sounds better, do watch her if she's light though, usually if they are beat down from TB , they eventually cant hardly do a thing to get away from you, and like Destin said, they still eat like normal right up to the end, and you never notice they are sick til they can move well, by then, they are feathers with a breast bone in them, totally emaciated. Like my NPIP guy said, there's no cure for it, just prevention.

Also like Destin said, fortunately, havent seen it too much in waterfowl, bad for chickens (probably due to more rats in the coops)

 

[kangababy]

Yeah there shouldn't be nay rats in the new pen and we haven't seen any in there. We do have them up at the barn but just got a barn cat and he is taking care of that problem! I just wish eh would eat them instead of just bringing them to us dead and tore to pieces! YUCK!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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Ha,
I hear ya, yep, I employ about 8 around here myself just to keep them out of the feed. That's where it mostly gets transfered from, where you actually store the feed.
Also, try not to over feed in the pens, give them enough so that they can eat all they need, but not still having a lot on the ground in the pen at night, that's when the little nasty buggers are going to head to your pens anyway. If there's food in the bowls or on the ground, they'll find it...

 

[kangababy]

Well sad news.. My Silver teal died.. I found him died in the pen. Luckily I had left the band on him so I could ask if it was male or female.. The makes emwere banded on the right leg so Noe I have 3 females and 2 males... So much for having even pairs!!

 

[KansasKid]

thats depressing- Hope your other birds stay healthy.

 

[kangababy]

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Thanks! Yeah it worries me that it could be something the others could catch but I honestly think that it was like that when I got it and was a "bad bird". Another breeder here got birds from the same breeder I got him from (I picked them all up) and one of his still doesn't look right. It least it was some expected and not just a bird that died out of no where. I was expecting to get a call every night from my dad saying he had found it dead. He had been on the pen about 10am this morning and everything was fine. When I got there around 4pm it was dead just laying there. Really weird.

Hopefully the rest of the birds stay healthy!! it is so relaxing in the pen with them. Though they are starting to get confused it seems with all of the geese coming in an leaving.. Some of them will get up and fly to the other end of the pen or around in the pen when the geese leave at night.. almost like they are pretending to leave!