/r/duck

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The subreddit for people who keep, or love, ducks. Geese also welcome. r/duck covers both domestic and wild ducks.

Ducks are commonly raised for meat and eggs.

This subreddit is pro-welfare. We believe that anyone who owns animals has a duty to research, and meet, their welfare needs. We have sidebar links to educational resources on duck ownership and welfare.

Posts about hunting wild ducks, or recipes that use duck meat, should be directed to other subreddits.

The subreddit for people who keep, or love, ducks. Geese also welcome. r/duck covers both domestic and wild ducks.

Ducks are commonly raised for meat and eggs.

This subreddit is pro-welfare. We believe that anyone who owns animals has a duty to research, and meet, their welfare needs. We have sidebar links to educational resources on duck ownership and welfare.

Posts about hunting wild ducks, or recipes that use duck meat, should be directed to other subreddits.

Rules can be found at https://www.reddit.com/r/duck/about/rules.

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Should I be worried about this guy?

He doesn't seem to keep his head up at all and hes got the shakes it seems. I use brewers years to supplement niacin, is this still a deficiency y'all think? Or something else? Or just an odd little guy

1 Comment
2024/03/13
21:09 UTC

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Question on freshly hatched duckling

Incubating our chicken eggs and apparently a duck egg got mixed in. What on earth is this growth like thing and how can I help this poor small duckling

3 Comments
2024/03/13
18:09 UTC

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how do you train your ducks to lay somewhere

my ducks are assholes and hide their eggs everywhere and impossible to reach areas. Is there a way to train them to lay them in or around the coop and let me take their eggs daily?

12 Comments
2024/03/13
00:04 UTC

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Dislocated wing on Male Muscovy Duck

How do I fix this? Could I wrap it??

4 Comments
2024/03/12
23:11 UTC

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Chickens have MG,, are ducks safe?

I posted this on r/chickens and didn’t hear anything,, hoping someone here can help. Thank you

Hi I’m looking for some advice. We keep a mixed flock (ducks and chickens) Our chickens have been sick for a month with what we suspect is Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG). We haven’t had any testing done but all the symptoms match. This is our first time dealing with this and after reading that they’ll be life long carriers we made the sad decision to cull our flock.

I understand procedure is to depopulate, sanitize, wait before getting new birds but our question is; do we also have to cull our ducks? They live in the same coop but haven’t shown any symptoms and from what I’ve read MG is mainly a chicken infection.

5 Comments
2024/03/12
21:54 UTC

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How do I get my ducklings used to me?

They sort of freak out any time I need to change out their water or move them for whatever reason. I have 6 ducks and only one of them right now trusts me lol! I really didn’t think of this as an issue when considering getting them but I can’t really find any answers online either

17 Comments
2024/03/12
17:02 UTC

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I guess this guy belongs here

11 Comments
2024/03/12
13:26 UTC

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More info and a picture

Continuation from my post here

I could not add an image (and didn’t have one handy when I wrote it.)

Turns out people in my small town have both ducks and chickens. It’s a sort of joke that they’ve asked repeatedly to allow chickens specifically and have been denied (even though they were allowed before and the town used to be farmland).

I snapped a pic of the egg in my hand with a quarter for scale if this could help anyone in helping me identify it.

The cams I have that face that area are actually not made for great night vision, I bought them for a bird feeder and squirrel feeder. So if this did happen at night, I haven’t seen anything. I have a bird feeder with camera built in that I just installed in the yard, and for now it’s facing that corner. So we’ll see if we can catch this ninja ghost bird.

3 Comments
2024/03/12
01:49 UTC

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Duck ID Needed

Went to look at some ducks to add to my flock and noticed these two who he said were “female wood ducks”, that very obviously had some nutritional deficiencies going on. I couldn’t leave them, so now here they are.

Got them home, have them started on b12, and they are improving, and walking around more.

I estimate around 12 weeks old.

But now I am really wondering though are these really, female wood ducks?

21 Comments
2024/03/12
01:38 UTC

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Is this normal?

S/he’s tickling/biting me?

14 Comments
2024/03/11
23:42 UTC

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Foot Ok?

I acknowlege that Reddit is not a substitute for veterinary advice., but does this guys foot look a little swollen? He's a 7 month old Pekin and yesterday I noticed him start limping when he walks. His attitude/demeanor doesn't seem to have changed. He still seems happy but he walks as little as possible and when he does I can tell he is struggling a bit. It's just him and his brother sharing a coop. I haven't tried treating anything but I did order some Epsom salts for a soak and Vetericyn just in case.

7 Comments
2024/03/11
23:23 UTC

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How tf does an injury like this even happen?!

When I first saw this guy, I thought it was a leaf hanging from his face but as I looked closer, I realized it was his TONGUE! He still has the top and bottom of his bill, but it looks like his tongue has been pulled through at the base and it’s just dangling there!! …poor thing. I’m gonna try to catch him and get him to a rehab, but I’ve only had like 50% success with catching these birds. They’re very clever! He seems to be eating OK; I threw him some corn.

1 Comment
2024/03/11
22:16 UTC

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Is this a duckling or a gosling?

So I have a mix of Khaki Campbell, blue and black Swedish, and some random call duck that was thrown in with some chickens one day. Well I wanted to add a few birds and when I picked up some more black Swedish ducklings, I stopped by tractor supply and got bit by the cute animal bug….

They had ducks and geese in the same container and I’m not entirely sure that I didn’t get a goose by accident. The beak shape is what’s throwing me off because this little dude is so much bigger than even the 2 week old ducklings I have currently.

If it is a goose, can anyone tell me what breed? And if it will be okay with a total of 11 assorted ducks when it’s old enough to go in the big bird pen?

126 Comments
2024/03/11
21:55 UTC

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A Bubbles bath pt. 2

Bubbles is currently sitting on eggs, so her boyfriends decided to take her bath instead! Marshmallow and snapdragon hope you enjoy!

3 Comments
2024/03/11
19:28 UTC

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Can I fix this injured wing? I’ve wrapped up wings for angel wings but nothing like this. I’m able to grab him. Please help.

4 Comments
2024/03/11
15:20 UTC

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Who’s this? It’s paired up with a mallard drake

0 Comments
2024/03/11
12:52 UTC

135

Same 2 ducks keep coming back. This is year 4

10 Comments
2024/03/11
11:32 UTC

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Whats wrong with my ducks leg

He was fine yesterday And there dirty because this was their bath time

4 Comments
2024/03/11
05:01 UTC

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Noticed these guys on my walk, what kind of duck are they?

I’ve never seen anything like them before

14 Comments
2024/03/11
00:17 UTC

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