Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

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Quote: Okay then, bad weather coming up, not much one can do outside, time to visit neighbours indoors . . .!

 

[mickielee]

Hello everyone! I'm new here and want to say hi. I live in Battle Ground. We have 10 hens and one rooster.

 

[Hinotori]

Hello everyone! I'm new here and want to say hi. I live in Battle Ground. We have 10 hens and one rooster.

Welcome!

I'm in Graham, so I'm a long ways north from you.

 

[BGMatt]

Hello everyone! I'm new here and want to say hi. I live in Battle Ground. We have 10 hens and one rooster.

Welcome. I'm also in Battle Ground. Cool to see locals on here.

 

[mickielee]

I adore my chickens. I had no idea how much fun they can be. I have my first broody hen right now. She is sitting on 5 eggs right now. We have about 6 days left till hatch. I sure hope we get at least one chick.

 

[ElleLovesDucks]

So I ordered an exotic (duck) and he was very quiet, very slow and a little "too" calm compared to the female that came with him. Well after 3 days of having him I found that he had curled up in a ball and died. I contacted the seller and he hasn't recommended anything. I'm pretty upset and I can't figure out anything I did that may have hurt this duck, I just know he was always very calm (we thought he liked us more, but we're thinking it was more likely that he was dying this entire time.)

Now, I can't just have the one duck as they're social and my goal was to only have 2, but I don't know if I want to work with this seller again as I think he should've tried to remedy the situation or at the very least offered a replacement or something like a refund... I have been contemplating selling the female because I don't want her to be miserable, but I was wondering if anyone else had a similar experience? What do I do now?

 

[AletaG]

So I ordered an exotic (duck) and he was very quiet, very slow and a little "too" calm compared to the female that came with him. Well after 3 days of having him I found that he had curled up in a ball and died. I contacted the seller and he hasn't recommended anything. I'm pretty upset and I can't figure out anything I did that may have hurt this duck, I just know he was always very calm (we thought he liked us more, but we're thinking it was more likely that he was dying this entire time.)

Now, I can't just have the one duck as they're social and my goal was to only have 2, but I don't know if I want to work with this seller again as I think he should've tried to remedy the situation or at the very least offered a replacement or something like a refund... I have been contemplating selling the female because I don't want her to be miserable, but I was wondering if anyone else had a similar experience? What do I do now?

Hmm.
A. What breed? Maybe someone has an 'extra' drake?
B. If it just happened, http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/depts_waddl/poultry/AHFSL-SubmittingBirdsforNecropsyNov2012.pdf you can prepare and mail the body here for a necropsy. That way you know if it was communicable. If so, a copy of the report might rattle the sellers cage a little.
For your own sake, you might want to know if it's something the rest of your ducks have been exposed to. IMHO.

Sucks to lose them.

 

[ElleLovesDucks]

Hmm.
A. What breed? Maybe someone has an 'extra' drake?
B. If it just happened, http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/depts_waddl/poultry/AHFSL-SubmittingBirdsforNecropsyNov2012.pdf you can prepare and mail the body here for a necropsy. That way you know if it was communicable. If so, a copy of the report might rattle the sellers cage a little.
For your own sake, you might want to know if it's something the rest of your ducks have been exposed to. IMHO.

Sucks to lose them.

Breed is White-Faced Whistling duck (not very common, I know, my fault falling in love with a duck I saw at the zoo)

And I will look into the necropsy thing. I would need to get my husband's okay on that. My husband was really torn up about this but something told me to keep the duck. Hopefully this will help.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, that was not the most fun weekend ever, was it?

The chickens are all severely displeased with my management of the weather, that's for sure.

 

[ElleLovesDucks]

Well, that was not the most fun weekend ever, was it?

The chickens are all severely displeased with my management of the weather, that's for sure.

My chickens love the rain. I figure they must be Washingtonian Chickens already. They like all the bugs it brings out. and I think they like even more that their waterer never gets below completely full.