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    Duck foot injury / illness, need advice

    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...
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    Duck foot injury / illness, need advice

    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,
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    Duck foot injury / illness, need advice

    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
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    Duck foot injury / illness, need advice

    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...
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    Duck foot injury / illness, need advice

    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
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    Duck foot injury / illness, need advice

    @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...
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    Duck foot injury / illness, need advice

    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...
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    Duck foot injury / illness, need advice

    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...
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    Winter Preparations

    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...
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    Call Duckling with Deformed Bill - HELP! Need Advice

    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...
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    Strange Egg: Is it a Lash egg or something else?

    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...
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    Strange Egg: Is it a Lash egg or something else?

    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!
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    Strange Egg: Is it a Lash egg or something else?

    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
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    Strange Egg: Is it a Lash egg or something else?

    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
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    Strange Egg: Is it a Lash egg or something else?

    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...
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    Strange Egg: Is it a Lash egg or something else?

    Thank you for the reply! I totally forgot to state that but she’s a duck actually. I’m not sure that changes anything lol. This is what it looked like when I opened it! A very slight yellow-y substance or almost looks like a weird meat/fat. If this is a lush egg, is there anything I should do...
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    Strange Egg: Is it a Lash egg or something else?

    Hello everyone, my baby gal is finally of age to lay eggs. She had her first egg yesterday (at time of writing this) along with something else. The day before yesterday I noticed slight tail pumping along with slight heavy breath taking. I was worried she was egg bound or having troubles, so I...
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    Duck Hatching Eggs/Ducklings & Specific Breeds ?

    Yeah I didn’t think so either! I got my calls from kijiji as well, I do actually have white ones! 3 drakes 1 hen, although if I let them breed my other hens they won’t be pure whites. I’m not even sure if they’re a full white themselves 🤔 (They had lots of pretty colours!)
  19. Kerya

    Thank you!! 🥰

    Thank you!! 🥰
  20. Kerya

    Thank you!!

    Thank you!!
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