This little girl is tiny at 2 weeks but the other 5 are growing great.

Anything I can do to help out? I see her eating, very active, and I drop mealworms in front of her every day and she’ll eat them.

I tried to isolate her and try new foods or just the organic duckling starter food but she’s too distressed away from her siblings.

Cleared Charlie's bumble on Thanksgiving. The swelling has reduced significantly and the wound has completely scabbed over.

The silver coloring is an aerosol bandage product called AluShield.

We got our first duck egg today!!!!!! 🥚 I was so surprised it was so green but I guess that is common with runners! Just wanted to share my happy news :)

This one took a while to remove. Pepper's toe has been swollen for some time and the other day a scab formed.

Had to soak her foot for about 30 minutes before things began to loosen, even then I had to take my time slowly removing this sucker to Pepper's much-vocalized discomfort.

After it was removed she stopped squirming and calmed down. I can only imagine the relief she felt.

Can ducks brood on wet/moist surfaces? My ducks have been laying on a moist surface and I am not sure of the eggs will hatch. Moreover, it rained yesterday and all the eggs were exposed to water, some socked in mud. I secured the eggs. I have not washed them though. Should I relocate the ducks and allow them brood?

What I resorted to after an Amazon incubator failed at 2am. I have duck eggs incubating with a hatch date of 12/06 and I lost temperature two hours ago. The incubator alarm woke my spouse up at 2am and the temp was about 2°F lower than the setting. All eggs were good prior and are mostly too solid to see through. I did manage to find veining on the first one. The second egg I checked was internally pipped... I saw movement. For background info, I woke and ran like hell when my husband asked if the incubator beeped when something was wrong. I saw two degrees lower and disconnected, waited for the backup battery to kick in and hoped it would reset and the temp would start to rise. It didn't, so I put on a kettle to get 100°F water, grabbed a portable ice chest, heated a clay-based hot pack, heated up the chest and took the eggs all out and into a foam carton. I heated the clay pack, placed it with the egg carton in the chest, and started adding water bottles with 100°F water. While the eggs sat in a hopefully warm enough place, I dumped water from the incubator, placed it into a foam casing it came with to use as needed, and filled the reservoir with the 100°F water. It did reach temp, so after an hour, I put the eggs back in. One I noticed was internally pipped. There may be others, but I was trying my utmost to get them back into temperature range. This is my first incubation batch.. I'm scared pissless. I started three more since then and I've lost three eggs altogether from just the original 15 duck eggs I started, if you don't count the unfertilized-looking one. I can't get this close to hatch day and lose all 8 of my first batch. Batch2 in Bator2 only has four 😭

This is my first winter with ducks. Where I live the lowest it gets can be 0F sometimes so I worry about them getting to cold. My ducks have their own decks so they are not on the cold ground with a large coop built over top of the deck. Inside each coop I keep a kiddie pool. Should they have access to the pool when it gets this cold? If so how do you guys keep it from freezing over? I have read that some people put heaters in the water but I haven’t found any. If anyone has suggestions or links to good heater I would appreciate it!

Bear with me, I know the picture is blurry and I will try to get a better one later today.

This duck has been living solo at a pond at the front of the community (Lenoir, NC - mountains) for a few months now. When cars slow near it, it comes quacking so I assume it's been fed and/or was a pet or domestic duck at some point.

What is it and does it need a shelter for the winter? If so, any recommendations on what is suitable? Would an outdoor cat shelter/dog house type thing work?

This is Nimbus, my pateros duck who turned 3 weeks old today, It's sunday in my place today so I was wondering if it's old enough that I can bring him outside to church, he has no one to be with in the house and has grown very attached to me, I can't just leave him and I don't know what to do.

https://old.reddit.com/r/duck/comments/1h30vd3/why_are_our_boys_ripping_her_feathers_out/

...and they're gone... deleted their post, here is what drives people away from good advice. We need to be a little less harsh with those who don't have as much experience with ducks as we do. Guide, advise but don't scold and chastise. I know I've seen posts of people doing stupid things with their ducks and I'm ready to scream at them for being so stupid and then I just stop and think about the stupid things I did with my first handful of ducks. Hell, I'm still learning things!

I work for a pet sitting company, WNC Pet Care, in Asheville NC and it’s been below freezing for a few days now. This poor duck is isolating and always shivering. Can I put a sweater on her? There is straw in the coop but she doesn’t go there because the other ducks bully her. I can’t separate her because the property sustained damage during Hurricane Helene.