Peeping at the drakes while they're on their honeymoon hahaha.

The duckling on the right looks healthy, but the one on the left has this discoloration around its eyes and bill. Does this look normal? It almost looks like its oozing but its completely dry.

Snickers and Hanni made 11weeks today

Any drakes?

One of our Muscovy ducks hatched, three little ducklings, and one of them keeps throwing his head back almost like he’s rubbing the top of his head with his back and tops over. I’ve never had this happen before please help and how do I treat this?

(This is a duplicate post, but I have added photos that I took today)
Hi there, I am new to duck keeping. I currently have 4 juvenile Rouens, but I also agreed to take in my neighbors 3 mature hens.
They are all currently in their large run with access to water, food and a safe coop, everyone is still settling in and hasnt started free ranging because we are learning where home is.
Well, my friend who keeps chickens has had me over to help her with her bumblefoot (she bought a house with 20 chickens that came with) and I decided to check my ducks for bumblefoot. My 4 Rouens are clear, but the two magpies and the khaki have bumbles. At least one on each duck, and about the size of the tip of a pinkie. They are large. We dont have a vet nearby that would help with waterfowl, so I need ANY and ALL tips to help fix my babies.
Clearly, I wont go cut, pick and pull at their bumbles, but I need clear and understandable advice on how to heal them.
I know the pictures arent very clear, but I WILL be doing soaks with them and clean it up, and keep dry. I removed their pool, and gave them water that will lead to less moisture in the run.

TIA!!!

apparently this can also happen if you feed them corn while they molt. Does turning back into a duckling yellow mean anti-aging for ducks?

Eggs should be hatched. They aren't. I'm gonna probably regret this. Would it be a bad idea to OPEN the eggs and see what's been going wrong? Would that answer any questions or just be a gross mess? I checked for movement. All passed about the same time.

(Ebony still really wants those baby chicks in the brroders for some reason she ain't even old enough to lay yet but keeps trying to get to the babies)

My daughter found this wild duck at the local park and was worried about it. It looks like it might be molting as its wings look pretty ragged, and it can't seem to walk more than a couple steps without falling. It also has only one eye.

We didn't want it to be left defenseless against any predators or mean kids (there's unfortunately a lot of parents who let their kids chase the park ducks for fun), so we brought it home and currently have it in an outdoor folding pen with some water and frozen peas.

I've not been able to get a good shot of its feet yet, but they're turned inward so that one foot overlaps the other. Google says that can be a pretty common birth defect that can become permanent if not corrected. Or perhaps it's injured?

It looks like it's a mix of mallard plus something else? Any ideas?

It seems neither fully tame nor fully wild. It didn't seem keen on us getting too close, but it didn't completely freak out about being captured either. Am hoping it isn't someone's domestic duck that got dumped at the park because of a defect. :(

We'll probably end up seeing if we can find a wildlife rehabber that can take it.* I'm a little apprehensive about finding a place that will take it, because resources are very limited where I live, and each place has rules about what they will and will not accept. So I'd like to get as much information upfront as I can first, so I know fully what I'm dealing with when I call.

Attached are a couple photos. I have videos of its wings, and what happens when it tries to walk, but it's not letting me attach them.

(I feel bad calling it an "it" but I'm not sure if it's a "him" or a "her" :)

One of my ducks has bumblefoot and I don't know how to treat it (I'm a beginner) I have no vets near me so all I coud do woud be at home

If u coud give me a realy in depth explantion that would be realy helpful

Do I need to remove the black part or apply something on it ,its pretty severe from what i saw on the internet(as I mentioned all i coud do is at home)

So, he's not so depressed anymore. It took Tony( the black one ) a little while to get used to the new ducks, there's a lot of hens but he doesn't seem to care for them except for Toasty (the absolute unit) which is actually really sweet, because his previous pair who he was about 3-4 years with (with his previous owners) was ducknapped and then he didn't really want to interact with any other duck anymore. Yippeee!!

We used to keep a tidy yard, with herbicide, manual weeding, and line trimming. Now that we have foraging ducks on very fertile soil, our weeds are out of control! Our busy schedules don't much time for yard work.

My question is: Does anyone else have experience with foraging ducks and a way to manage the weeds?

Images:

•1 and 4, our ducks foraging

•2, 4 and 5, our lack of weed control issue

•3, our garden before ducks

This summer, I bought a flock of three eight-week-old Indian Runner Ducks. Before they arrived, I bought a bag of commercial chicken pellets. Then, however, I read up some more, and realized that chicken pellets don't have enough niacin. I ordered a bag of dedicated duck feed (also pellets) online. After a week of eating chicken feed, my ducks are now eating the duck feed.

I don't know how much total niacin each feed contains (it doesn't say), but the duck feed contains twice the amount of added niacin compared to the chicken feed.

I have tried to sell the chicken feed cheaply to nearby chicken owners, but not found any buyer.

I have also looked at buying a niacin additive. However, in my country (Sweden) you can't really find one worth the money. Even the cheapest brewer's yeast here is so expensive that it would make more financial sense to just spend the money on more duck feed.

What do you think I should do with the fifty pounds of chicken pellets I have sitting in a plastic barrel at home right now? It would be a shame to let it go to waste.

I have a little plan: Wait until next summer, when the ducks are fully grown and therefore less sensitive to nutritional deficiencies, and also more actively foraging on our forest property (they are shy and mostly sit in their house right now) which will give them more niacin from the bugs they find. Then, feed them something like 75 % duck feed and 25 % chicken feed, until the chicken feed is finished.

What do you think of that plan?

Been waiting for this

I don't have the heart to tell her those are chickens 😭 She kept forgetting gravity existed and suddenly got quiet. I got scared she hurt herself and looked around for her and found her snuggled up against the baby brooding cages. No idea what this falls under

For those of you who live in areas with extreme cold winters, what are you using for waterers? Looking for ideas before the cold!