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We got a young duck hen last night for our duck duck she was so filthy I could not tell what color she was and she stunk to high heaven. I got her home and put her in the bath with some dawn dish soap and low and behold she is so pretty. She was so excited to get in the tub she loved her bath! That made it easy.

 
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We're having trouble keeping the tiny critters (aka voles and field mice) out of the house this year, must be the hard winter. Generally, the only time we have to "intervene" with tiny critters is the red squirrels. The darn things mulitiply worse than bunnies!!!! Everything else the "food chain" keeps into proper balance up here in the wonderful frozen woodlands, but those darn red squirrels!!! They're too small and fast for most of the predators to catch and they can do some major damage in big hurry. I can live with the chipmunks (we have the tiny Lesser Chipmunk so the chickens actually eat a lot of those), the voles (yep, another huge chicken snack) and even the occasional snake though if they're too big they do get moved back where they belong (nothing poisonous anywhere near us and I only had one chook that would eat them, that crazy hen would attack anything!).

We gave up trying to eradicate them living so close to thousands of acres of wild woods, we just "thin the herd" when they get too thick by live trapping and taking them for a ride to the other side of the river. Hubby used to try to pick them off with his 22 but he got tired of me laughing at all the "bobtail" squirrels we had running around!
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getaclue said:
The bucket traps worked for me on some mice, but not on the rats. I had to bait for the rats. I still find one, or two once in awhile, but not regularly like before. I will keep using the baits until I'm sure it's totally under control. Like I had said before, never had any trouble until they sold the land across the street, and started developing it. Baits are not an overnight solution, but they seem to work the best over the long run.
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Fortunately we've never had rats, just not the right environment I guess. Poison is just not an option here. We just have too solid a food chain. We would wind up screwing things up and killing the high predators like eagles, ospry and wolves that keep things in balance.
 
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ChickenCanoe said:
Thanks for the list OZ.
There's too much misinformation on the web and too many take medicating as a first course of action with no diagnosis.
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I'm afraid I am one that will treat with no diagnosis, but I usually have a good reason to. Too often delay in treatment, which should include proper supportive care like heat and fluids, will result in death. Those that are raising poultry for food should probably only medicate as directed to by a and should also have necropsies done on deceased birds.

-Kathy
 
I'm thinking there was a miscommunication and she didn't realize they were meat ducks. I do tend to have a lot of pets so... The duck that I use baytril on didn't make it she was treated too late... I've got the leftover med kicking around though... Just in case.
 

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