Recent content by barberfamducks

So unfortunately the baby duckling did pass So hard dealing with these things, but I have three healthy beautiful ducklings that I, and the duckling that passed, can proudly look at. Thank you for being so reassuring and helpful, Sylviesoph

I think I might have to humanely say goodbye to it. It seems to be losing quite a bit of blood and if it does make it through the night (hatch and live), it would be a miracle! I'd love to help it out the egg and bandage it up, but it's not fully hatched yet and I do still see blood vessels in...

I looked again just to get a summary of what's going on and it looks like the hen almost entirely cut off the tip of the duckling's bill it's bleeding quite a bit and the outcome doesn't look very good. I'm just lost with what to do. I don't wanna just give up, but I also don't wanna let it...

I hope so too! Thank you!

It doesn't look too bad, but it does look like it hurts though.

Bad news yet again the last duckling egg that pipped has started zipping and our mama hen decided to peck it therefore pecking it's poor little bill almost off! She hatched out three duck eggs successfully but this last one she's decided to hurt! It was bleeding quite a bit. It was primarily on...

So unfortunately the smashed egg didn't survive my gut was telling me to look again and I held it for a while and no peeps or movement whereas the other two peeped and moved right away. I opened it just to make sure and it did pass. The other egg that pipped is doing good! The mother hen seems...

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NEED HELP For some random reason the other three eggs aren't hatching! The first two hatched and it was amazing how effort free it was. I checked on her about 12 hours later and bam two brand new ducklings! But the rest of the three aren't going to be so easy! She got off her nest to feed and...

Our hen hatched two ducklings! Two down three more to go! Can't believe how clean they are! Not even a day old! So excited!

Update on our little duck! He is doing much better! It's healed up really nicely and I decided to integrate him back into the flock! Our grown female duck didn't like the bandage on his leg at all! Every time we turned our backs she would try to rip it off! It was quite funny to watch (she...

I will do that tonight when I do his final soak. It does seem swollen, but not majorly. There is no bone sticking out thankfully. I've been taking off the bandage, soaking the leg, putting Neosporin on, and then wrapping it back up. Not a tight wrap, just some bandage gauge with medical tape...

So I gave him a saline solution soak and then put some Neosporin on it and wrapped it up nicely. He seems to be doing better given the circumstances but he just doesn't want to walk on that foot. Most of the time he lays on his belly with his hurt leg stretched out. I try to let him stand on it...

I have him in a closed box with very small mesh for ventilation, so I hope that will keep the flies away. If not I have a safe livestock fly spray I could use. The injury is more around his ankle than his leg. With the saline solution do I just pour a bit on it or soak his leg in it? I will try...