URGENT duckling eye infection

[SixBabies]

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I either put mine in the bath or laundry room wash tub. I make sure they can touch bottom till they get older and float better. Usually 10 mins to start.

Awwwe so cute! Got to do this soon!

 

[SixBabies]

I just let them play no need to wash they'll do that themselves. I do not recommend ever using dawn or any kind of oil cutting soap on ducks. Unless they have something on them that needs cleaned off for their safety. Because doing that to a healthy duck or ducklings will destroy all their protective oils they naturally have on them.

Yeah that was my intuition thank you for clarifying!

 

[AshVau22]

It's also a good idea incase you haven't already to have a plan in place for what you will do if you have to many drakes.

 

[SixBabies]

I did pay extra to get them all female sexed, and I can at least confirm by picking them up that they make the loud squeak peep girl sound

But I can’t garuntee they are all of course, very rare but they could have a genetic mutation that impacts the phenotype or something else went wrong in the process to end up with males.

So good idea to work that out!


I have thought long term about maybe getting one male call duck once my girls are a little older.


I REALLY wanted a call duck but they don’t lay eggs and right now I’m looking to switch over to homestead duck eggs from grocery store chicken eggs.
So maybe since call ducks don’t lay very many eggs if I get a male call duck and then I can have the best of both worlds!

 

[AshVau22]

This is to give you an idea of how fast ducks grow. This 4 weeks. These are pekins and khaki Campbell. They moved out shortly after this picture. They spent the day outside but still liked coming in. It was still pretty chilly. I've never owned call ducks. I don't have an enclosed area all my birds run on an acre of fenced in yard with coops for night time.