Muscovy Drake Problems & Ms. Icecovy The Female Muscovy Duck Seriously Improving #102 Breeding Ducks
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Ms. Icecovy the Muscovy female duck is now eating and drinking water on her own and making a good mess at it, she is still stuck in brooding mode a touch not completely out of it but getting much better. She is now standing on her own and can walk around the hospital, but she is still weak you can see it in her legs they still shake a bit.
I should of never bred her after we brought her back in from her 2nd frostbite incident, should of just let her heal but I never thought of when she would go into brooding state of mind that she would starve herself sitting on the nest and run her body down. Making her body weak while healing from the 2nd bout of frostbite incident, was just too much for this little Muscovy female duck to handle and only made her worse.
Another learning lesson on the duck adventure the ducks and I could have done without, I feel bad what she has gone through because of my mistakes.
It's another nice day not as warm as it should be but it is warmer, spring is around the corner.
While I was in the pen changing the bath tub water I noticed blood in the drake enclosure, which made no sense because raptors (owls) won't fly under the trees to get at the drakes. After further investigation checking out the drakes I found Moe and the one of the other Muscovy drake ducks had missing claws on their toes, it looks like they got bitten or ripped off. The more I checked them out I noticed Moe the Muscovy drake duck had blood all over his feathers, Moe and the other Muscovy drake were fighting and must of ripped their claws off in the fight.
Spring is getting closer and I have noticed the females going nuts tormenting the drakes through the grid with this warmer weather, I guess it's sending the drakes over the edge and it's too much for them to handle and now it's causing fights.
Yesterday on the egg recon the ducks and the chickens for the first time in a long time gave us absolutely no eggs, and today they didn't make up for it either. It's looking like another moult is coming on from another group of ducks, but still no Rouen duck feathers. Egg recon sucked!
Last night this spring melt caused me my first problem, the melting water from the ice in the pen shorted out the electric fence, it was about 8 pm when I looked out and I noticed the electric fence flashing red and not green. This isn't a good thing because this means there is no electrical charge going to the fence and with predators starting to get more active now spring is getting close to us I had to fix this right away.
I went out with the flash light and discovered the live line on the bottom of the electric fence that is frozen into the ice was causing the problem, when it's frozen it doesn't short out the fence but with the ice is melting it becomes a dead short. So I had to cut that part of the line out and jump the live line up to the next level so the fence would re-energize and give the ducks protection again.
With this melt I had to do some duck feces scraping to get rid of the mess in front of the barn, the ducks were playing in it non stop which isn't good, fun and games playing in duck poop!
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