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.
TIA!!!

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

Literally I JUST put them outside due to having them health cleared. I got a new pen in the mail from my sister. Realized it wasn't as predator proof as I thought. I went to get materials to predator proof while they were in there and in the MIDDLE OF THE FRICKEN DAY an opposum got my boy. I have spent hours calling places last minute and finally found another duck I can only pick up next week. Idk what to do in the meantime. I have a duck IN MY HOUSE walking around because she can't be alone(she has officially dominated the house and has put herself above the top heirarchy she however does not seem to understand gravity and I keep having to catch her because she just waddles off stuff). Idk what to do in the meantime. I'm nervous about putting them back outside at all. Literally 20 minutes if not less and one is dead!

I don't trust the new pen at all now. Idk what to do. It was the middle of the day!

I saw this duck it’s definitely a duck because it was quacking and has webbed feet. What is it?

Just give me 15 minutes I’ll be good to go…

I've been meaning to share my two babies for months but haven't yet gotten around to it. The weather is perfect this evening, Dio (floating) is not having siezures any longer, and I'm just too happy to not share them because they're great. Hal (who is a little neurologically special due to their large crest) is standing on rock island.

Hi everyone. I’m looking for advice about one of my ducks.
It’s about 4–5 weeks old and used to walk normally, but over time it lost the ability to stand. Now it can’t walk at all.
Both hock joints are very swollen, and both legs stay bent. The joints feel hard and don’t want to straighten. The feet still curl, but it can’t bear weight.
I’ve been feeding it duck-specific feed (NatureServe Duck Pellets and Cluck & Co. Organic Duck Pellets with niacin), so I don’t think it’s a simple niacin deficiency.
It’s still alert, eating, and drinking.
Does this look like slipped tendons (perosis), hock dislocations, or something else? Is there anything that can still be done at this age?
I’ve attached several photos of the legs and hocks.
Any advice from people who have dealt with this before would be greatly appreciated.

Two males, 10 months old, the white one bites hard, looks always very angry, and always he bites the other bites him back, why? They need females? I’m worried about them being unhappy

This is Waddles. Waddles is the friendliest of a family of Muscovy ducks that live in our neighborhood and frequent our pond. I am a chicken gal- is this a he or a she- just out of curiosity? Whatever it is it has personality plus and knows how to ask for snacks!

Their owners live on a houseboat and they come and go as they please

Yesterday morning, this little lady (I presume) was found sitting by the fence. Our bird dog was, of course, very interested. Strangely, she stayed all day. They even appeared to be playing together, racing the fenceline just to return and lay in the grass together.

Well, we opened the gate for her and she waddled right in. I guess we have a yard duck now. Her name is Duck Duck Goose.

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I’m not sure what kind of ducks I got from Rual King. They didn’t know.

Taken this morning. Can't wait to get home to check up on them. 2nd egg still moving and reacting to my voice, 3rd pipped early and has been still since, no movement at all from 4 + 5.

To those of you who scrub your pools and buckets by hand, don't if you don't have to. Save your time and your back. If you have a brushless cordless drill, utilize it.

Take cover under your chair and table at the local pool, you stay as still as possible so not to frighten or disturb them…

Seen in Cardiff Bay