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Does anyone have any tips on how to get rid of an otter? An otter has taken 5 of my 11 free range ducks. At the point it had taken 3 I locked the ducks up in their run/house compound. The otter then dug under the wire and has taken 2 more. The run was partially bricked up at the bottom so I...

Does anyone have any experience of sibling ducklings (6 weeks old) attacking each other? I have never seen this before, but have found a young (drake I think) in a poor way this morning in the run. There are 6 ducklings and it was the first night we had put them in with the adult ducks. It is...

Hi there, I know ducks are reknown for being not very good mothers, but I think this one takes the biscuit. Has anyone else experienced this sort of behaviour before? Two weeks after the babies were born she basically stopped looking after them, and started laying again. The ducks are kept...

Hi there, My drakes have started fighting and 2 of them have a foamy discharge coming from one of their eyes. I'm assuming an eye infection. Does anyone know the best way to treat this? I have an antibiotic ointment before for duck eyes when a cat attacked them, however this does not look...

Just wondering how folks' ducks have been laying this year? I hatched a new lot last summer, and they started laying mid Februrary this year, and still are. Is this quite good going? I used to have ducks as a child, various sets of them over the years, and they normally only ever laid from...

Hi there, Just wondered if anyone miight know what is the matter with my white campbell duck. Her feathers have gone all yellow around her eyes. There is no pus visible at all, her actual eyes seem fine. She has started moulting, so I wondered if it was to do with that, but her drake is...

Hi there, I have a couple of white campbells (a duck and drake) which I got as young adults last October. They seem to have started moulting early - I wouldn't have expected them to start until at least July. I've heard of autumnal layers, so was wondering if white campbells might do this...

Does anyone have much experience in treating a duck with a prolapse? I have an 8 month only white campbell duck who has had a prolapse. She has been laying for nearly 2 and a half months now without any problems, until last weekend. I cleaned her and used KY jelly to put her poor bits back...

Here are my Shetland Ducks and their 2 white campbell friends that came to join them. They have been laying since 15/2/10. :D

Hi there, I'm looking for some advice on what to do with ducks with sore feet. One of my ducks has had a sore foot for 5 days now. It is cracked, but does not look infected. I put some germoline on it to see if it might aid healing. Tonight I have noticed another duck seemed to be limping a...

Hi there, Does anyone know anything about prevalence of homosexuality in domestic ducks? I've noticed 2 of my females 'mating' a couple of times now. There are plenty of drakes - infact we have 5 ducks and 5 drakes at the moment. None of the birds fight, and there appears to be 2 male-female...