Recent content by Kerya

I keep forgetting to update this! I didn’t want to bother anyone with a ping but pretty soon after (1+ week) the spots slowly started getting less dark in colour & started shrinking. By week 2 it was more noticeably healing, colour was getting less black and closer to regular colours. About now...

I can check the hardware stores next time I’m out, there IS a peavy mart I can check too! I’ll look for pellets though, thank you ! I get my duck food from a Starfra Feeds though,

Thank you for your help! I’ll make sure to update you as their feet get better (: I love that your flock sounds a bit silly too haha, it seems there’s no avoiding some goofy duck / goose / chicken jenga

I’ll make sure to update this thread and maybe tag ya with the progress on their feet. I cleaned out their bedding just before having a large nap lol. I do wish I could find some pine shavings, it sounds better. I’m either bad at using google or don’t have a great farm store yet as I haven’t...

I’m about 40 minutes outside the Peterborough area, in the “bush” haha. But for real though, I wonder why they like it so much! They’re such menaces, they wouldn’t stop making holes as I was trying to add the walls lol

@Jenbirdee @Miss Lydia @Canadian Wind The ventilation does need to be fixed, I need better ventilation on their side of the duck house. It’s a bit hard to explain but essentially I converted a greenhouse to be their duck house / coop. It‘s currently sectioned off in 3 groups, the runner ducks...

It has gotten around and up to -10°c so far (inside the duck house) but where I am it gets a lot colder so it won’t be easier going forward either. One of my other runners did / does have a bit of frostbite and he’s been inside since (zipper). It’s not a horrible case either but looks different...

Recently the humidity has been harder to control in my duck house than usual, and now my boys feet don’t look good. I’m assuming the humidity + cold has done it, or helped do it ? I don’t fully believe it’s bumble foot as some of these cut like things have a scaly / ridged sort of texture. I...

Okay so I’m converting a greenhouse to the duck house and I’m winterizing and planning to winterize further as it goes. I’m in Ontario (Canada) and it gets to -40°c where I’m at. I plan to have the ducks in their duck house most / all of the winter on those bad days, not going outside. If...

How have yours been now that it has been a few months? I have 2 like this only a few days old. 1 of them actually has “holes” on both sides and isn’t crossing luckily, but the others is crossing a teeny bit more as days go by. Mine try the hard crumble from another duckling, but I give them a...

I will make sure to do that, I’ll watch her closely. So far I’m hoping glitch, she is exhibiting normal behaviour and nothing looks out of place. I will hope it stays that way. I’ll put out some oystershell as well! And yeah, unfortunately at the moment my ratio is off. Because they’re coming...

That would be relieving, also there’s no chance it would be another gal. Just before it was laid I cleaned their entire area out, she’s separated by fence so she’s by herself but can still poke/see her brothers. I watched her make her first nest, it was so cute!

Oh I apologize, the treats I don’t give every day, I guess I shouldn’t have included them in my response. It’s just the grower/layer every day! I don’t believe my local farm store has a crumble, unless the duck starter feed is a crumble. I haven’t looked at chicken food for ducks

Yikes that’s scary, I hope that isn’t the case. She is a new layer though, literally her first time laying, she’s only 6 months since October 11th I believe

I feed them grower still as I haven’t found a maintenance feed that’ll ship to me, and was told I could just keep them on it mixed with a layer or starter. My adults (1-2+ years) are on a layer feed as their main food. The “babies” (6 months and a bit) have had a mix of the layer and grower...