UPDATED Micro duck and hatchmates pics!!!!!

[CityChicker]

Have you ever figured out why she is bloating so tremendously after eating? I think you are probably not going to get any definitive answers until you have lab work and x-rays done, which will probably be a fortune unfortunately.

 

[chickensioux]

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Hey! Well I know for one that she eats just like her sisters. She is such a little piggy. And you're right, the bill for just looking at her was $150.00. I can't imagine what it would be to xray, etc. Hubby says no for now since she seems to be chugging along. When I let them out of the tractor to play, swim she keeps up with the others, forages, swims and acts just like a healthy little duckling. She is keeping me a little worried but I thank God everyday I have her.

 

[Carlascritters]

I have had three like Pippin this year. Their brothers and sisters were way bigger and more feathered than they were/are. One of them, I found dead in the duckie nursery yard. It was just laying there, not a mark on it. I had just been talking to it about a half an hour earlier. It happened the same way to a little one earlier. I currently have one that is about 4 week old and looks about the same size it did when it first popped out of the egg. I sure hope it lives. I hope your micro duckie makes it too. I really want to see how big they actually get. I wonder if they have a heart or digestive deformity or something that doesn't allow them to grow.

 

[chickensioux]

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I'm thinking it is something like that. Probably heart. She worries me and if she wasn't such a vivacious little thing, I'd never sleep....

 

[Wifezilla]

Someone did a necropy on a micro chicken. There was an organ inside she didn't know what it was.

 

[angelib1]

Hows pippen doing? Well I hope.

 

[goosedragon]

you tend to see runts more often in calls and other bantams. MY half-baked THEORY is they somehow get a second dose of the mutations that allowed bantams in the first. Sad to say they rarely live to become adults so love them while you have them.

 

[babyspice35]

OMG so cuuuttee!!!

maybe she'll stay like that for ever!!!!
Well... maybe not for ever... but cuuutteee!!!

I love that last picture. It's kind of sad though

Very photographic!

 

[taras.farm]

Hey was this a help out! I've run across that before after helping a duckling out of its egg jail.
Keep us posted...survival this long looks pretty promising...Good luck!

 

[CoopCrazy]

I had a lady give me a 6 week old chick that looked like a 1 week old.. She had raised it in her house , it slept in her shirt at night and ran around the kitchen all day..,. It was super teeny after a few weeks it caught up and is now bigger then the other teens... Maybe she is justa late bloomer... Good Luck