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[Granty]

Hi,

A few of my ducklings are starting to get dropped wings. I think i have been overfeeding them - they are 6 weeks old and are on a mix of 80% growers pellets and 20% crumb. I feed them (there are 9 in total) 4 times a day, probably around 200 grams (between them) at each feed. I think i may need to reduce the amount of protein that they are eating - i was thinking of putting them back on crumb but it appears that crumb contains as much protein as growers pellets. What should i do? Is there any way of helping the ducklings with dropped wings? Will the problem get better with a reduced protein diet?. Will the wings go back into place?

 

 

very confused - i thought i had done everyhting right.

 

Granty

[miller30]

Hi Granty it sounds like a condition called angel wing i put ducklings on hatch to 3 weeks old on chick crumb and then from 3 weeks old to 14 weeks on growers im not sure if there is much you can do about it once they have the condition my parents had a khaki campbell with angel wing and it didnt interfere with her quality of life i would say stop the chick crumb and i feed mine ad lib so it wont be over feeding hope this helps leanne

[Granty]

Just a quick update for anyone

interested in the dropped wing problem 2 of my ducklings were having. The micropore tape method has done the

trick - their wings now tuck in nicely. The only slight downside to using microtape is that it does damage the wing feathers slightly when removed.

 

 

Granty

[miller30]

Thats good news leanne