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Sorry that I have already created a post on this put I believe this could be a serious problem with my duck.
My mallard will be 2 years old in less than 3 weeks and she has had a problem of laying shell-less eggs for over 4 months straight with no normal eggs since march of 2015. She normally lays one egg a day with the exception of a few off days here and there.
When she was laying good eggs every day, she would have a shell-less egg probably once a month which was not a problem. When she ran out of layer feed, I got her some feather fixer food because she had some terrible feathers. After a couple weeks of the new food she started laying shell-less eggs every day. After a while I realized how bad it was so I went to the store and got her layer feed again. She has been on it for probably 2 months+ and hasn't gone back to her normal egg laying. As mentioned before she has not laid a normal egg for over 4 months which is extremely concerning.
She is fed oyster shells which she eats a lot of. She does not eat spinach. I have tried giving her calcium water and putting calcium powder in her water, as well as a specially formulated calcium-rich food but nothing has helped.
She struggles so much getting the eggs out and starts having contractions and spasms and gets very anxious. She then comes over to me so I can help her get it out, where she pushes up against my hands really hard trying to get it out. The other night she even was quacking loud because of the pain of it. After she lays the egg, she almost immediately goes to sleep and a thick white substance drips from her vent. I'm so concerned because I have heard of egg binding and death of ducks and chickens because of shell-less or soft-shelled eggs and also know the white fluid is not good.
Today I started her on .6 ml of Safe-guard dewormer daily for 5 days, though she does not have any other symptoms other than bad eggs. She is not stressed and is a very spoiled and happy duck and displays no other problems than the eggs.
Please give advice if you have any - I would be absolutely devastated if something happened to her as she is so sweet and a huge part of my family. I will include a picture of the eggs she lays. Thanks so much.
P.S. I think she knows I'm posting on BYC about her...
My mallard will be 2 years old in less than 3 weeks and she has had a problem of laying shell-less eggs for over 4 months straight with no normal eggs since march of 2015. She normally lays one egg a day with the exception of a few off days here and there.
When she was laying good eggs every day, she would have a shell-less egg probably once a month which was not a problem. When she ran out of layer feed, I got her some feather fixer food because she had some terrible feathers. After a couple weeks of the new food she started laying shell-less eggs every day. After a while I realized how bad it was so I went to the store and got her layer feed again. She has been on it for probably 2 months+ and hasn't gone back to her normal egg laying. As mentioned before she has not laid a normal egg for over 4 months which is extremely concerning.
She is fed oyster shells which she eats a lot of. She does not eat spinach. I have tried giving her calcium water and putting calcium powder in her water, as well as a specially formulated calcium-rich food but nothing has helped.
She struggles so much getting the eggs out and starts having contractions and spasms and gets very anxious. She then comes over to me so I can help her get it out, where she pushes up against my hands really hard trying to get it out. The other night she even was quacking loud because of the pain of it. After she lays the egg, she almost immediately goes to sleep and a thick white substance drips from her vent. I'm so concerned because I have heard of egg binding and death of ducks and chickens because of shell-less or soft-shelled eggs and also know the white fluid is not good.
Today I started her on .6 ml of Safe-guard dewormer daily for 5 days, though she does not have any other symptoms other than bad eggs. She is not stressed and is a very spoiled and happy duck and displays no other problems than the eggs.
Please give advice if you have any - I would be absolutely devastated if something happened to her as she is so sweet and a huge part of my family. I will include a picture of the eggs she lays. Thanks so much.
P.S. I think she knows I'm posting on BYC about her...
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