Egg bound kills by trapping the egg she wants to lay inside of her, This causes compromised circulation and pressure, Which kills the bird hours after it occurs
She choked in her sleep most definitely, Check her sleeping area if any newspaper looks bitten into. Or maybe she devoured a full one or two. However, there is a possibility it egg bound because if she was in her normal sleeping position she must've died in her sleep, Its either she choked or...
May I ask how did she look like when she died? My duck died to hypothermia and had her head under her feathers, If she died to choking she should be laying down
Please hatch it, When my call duck died she left behind one egg too, But I was not successful on hatching it. I let her down and her egg stopped developing on day 17 :(
I am so sorry about Johnny, I know how you feel because I lost my call duck too.. I figured out what happened though, I believe Johnny consumed something unhealthy and was choking slowly, There was definitely something stuck in her neck as ducks will NOT quack if they are choking.
Cockells can cause this to happen as roosters and cockerels attack/aggressively mate with anything smaller than them that is a female, Are they separated completely? This may be happening while you are not there, My rooster when young would mate with a duck when I was not there, I only found it...
Hello! I used to have a call duck named Patitas, She used to have this type of thing where she was mostly dirty, Never quacked, and sometimes refused to eat, I usually gave her some calcium and electrolytes and she went back to normal, and I would recommend (Unless your vet says otherwise) To...