The Quack Shack

[Muscovy Wunda]

Hope svergone is well has @misslydia returned?

 

[Luv Ducks]

Hope svergone is well has @misslydia returned?

No, last I heard from her she is still offline and doesn't know when it will get fixed. Sometimes her phone isn't even working now to be able to text me. I feel so sorry for her. She really misses this site.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Interview with Marc Metzer.

 

[Luv Ducks]

Interview with Marc Metzer.

Interview with Marc Metzer.

Thank you so much for sharing, I watched the whole interview and found it very interesting.

 

[Jenbirdee]

My silver Appleyard hen who is not even two years old yet has lost weight and was shivering in the cold. Her feathers look ragged too. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her actually moult yet… except the very first teenage duck molt. Anyway she’s inside and I’ve been giving her rooster booster poultry cell and some probiotics , but it doesn’t look like she’s eating her duck food. I gave her a friend who is eating some of the food so it’s hard to tell. but she sure does dive into a bowl of peas., lol. I ordered some new tube feeding equipment just in case. I don’t like how thin she got I can feel her keel bone. She’s not lethargic or anything her poops look fairly normal. I mean they are a couple of slightly green ones, but I think it’s from the peas. I checked her body very carefully for parasites and did not find any. Her Oil gland looks normal her feet look good. Her vent looks good. I don’t know what else I can do.
And may I add, she is one of my ducks who prolapsed a couple times last summer when the chickens were terrorizing the ducks, and not letting them relax to lay their eggs ( the chickens have since been separated, and the prolapse has stayed in) but when she was prolapsed, I gave her a round of antibiotics and then I gave her some probiotics after. So I don’t know if that has anything to do with anything or not.
OK now I’m editing to add this.. She is still laying eggs when most of the ducks her age and older have stopped for the winter, and her eggs had thin shells with calcium deposits on the outside until I started giving her extra vitamin D. Then the calcium deposits went away, and the shelves are starting to get a little harder.
During the time she was prolapse, I tried to get her to stop laying by keeping her in the dark for a couple of weeks for 14 hours a day of darkness in a crate but she kept laying and the prolapse stayed in so I quit that I wonder if that tricked her body into thinking that winter ended so she’s laying too many eggs with no break and that’s making her weak or something. I don’t know.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Hope svergone is well has @misslydia returned?

We had a rough week here: Power and Gas went out together! - As a result the generator could not work and we lost our heating for over 12 hours.
Next day one of the water mains broke and there was no water for hours - we had to use snow-melt to flush the toilets…
Next power-outage and the generator stopped working due to low oil-pressure. Of course we had no oil at home, so we had to dig tire-tracks on to the driveway, so i could safely drive down to the nearest shop and buy oil. The tires on my car are barely at the legal limit and the county road wasn't cleared.
Guess what: Five minutes after i filled the oil into the generator and restarted, the power came back.
Today the generator stopped again, this time with a sensor-error. Either the battery is slowly dying, the gas pressure was too low or the sensor is indeed failing…
Anyways, after kicking the generator it started to cooperate again!

 

[Supercow]

Yeah problems are like ducks, they like company sorry to hear about that, sudden emergencies are hard on the mind and body.

How much electricity do you use per day? (for non heating purposes - so maybe a large charge station would help, 2.5 kWh ones are common now), and can you get a wood furnace? We're mostly burning ash firewood this winter and it's glorious.

 

[Canadian Wind]

to you, Frank! Glad you made it through!

 

[Supercow]

 

[Luv Ducks]

We had a rough week here: Power and Gas went out together! - As a result the generator could not work and we lost our heating for over 12 hours.
Next day one of the water mains broke and there was no water for hours - we had to use snow-melt to flush the toilets…
Next power-outage and the generator stopped working due to low oil-pressure. Of course we had no oil at home, so we had to dig tire-tracks on to the driveway, so i could safely drive down to the nearest shop and buy oil. The tires on my car are barely at the legal limit and the county road wasn't cleared.
Guess what: Five minutes after i filled the oil into the generator and restarted, the power came back.
Today the generator stopped again, this time with a sensor-error. Either the battery is slowly dying, the gas pressure was too low or the sensor is indeed failing…
Anyways, after kicking the generator it started to cooperate again!

So sorry to hear all of this Frank, happy that you are ok.