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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Mary B on July 11, 2009, 04:48:22 pm

Title: Vaccination for ducks?
Post by: Mary B on July 11, 2009, 04:48:22 pm

Does anyone know whether ducklings are supposed to be routinely vaccinated?  Our chickens were before we collected them, but I don't know whether we should be looking at vaccinating ducks, or what we should be vaccinating them against?

Help please!

Many thanks
Mary

Title: Re: Vaccination for ducks?
Post by: jameslindsay on July 11, 2009, 05:04:10 pm

Mary I have kept ducks for 12 years and have never had any injected for anything.

Title: Re: Vaccination for ducks?
Post by: doganjo on July 11, 2009, 07:02:24 pm

Same with me - I've had ducks for 7 years

Title: Re: Vaccination for ducks?
Post by: shetlandpaul on July 11, 2009, 07:21:32 pm

would only be worth doing if you went large scale. this list of injections is long and i would hate to be doing all that inoculating.

Title: Re: Vaccination for ducks?
Post by: Mary B on July 11, 2009, 08:50:31 pm

Phew - that's a relief.  I wasn't looking forward to that.  Thanks for the advice.