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[Heather P]

Thank you for your response. That’s a logical explanation, however, I am almost certain it was one of her own. She is the only mama in the area with babies right now and from day 1 (since about 4-5 days ago) I’ve seen her with 11 babies and now after that incident she is down to 10. If it was indeed her own that she killed, I was just wondering why she would do that. I can’t seem to find any reasonable explanation online for why a mother would do that to one of her young. The baby looked perfectly healthy and like all the others yet it was being rejected. So sad and perplexing! I hear it can happen, but why?

Oh and also.. I wanted to add aside from that incident she seems like such a great mother and very protective of her babies which makes it all the more strange.

 

[CrazyDuckLady27]

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[LoriBranigan]

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[LoriBranigan]

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I desperately need to talk with someone about my duck, please help.

 

[ckorr2013]

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One of my ducklings seems to have some sort of handicap or condition. It is about 3.5 weeks old. From the very beginning it has been falling over a lot, onto its back. Sometimes it can run many feet before falling over; other times hardly any distance at all. When it does fall over, it kicks its legs vigorously and eventually turns over. It expends a lot of energy doing this, but it has been very vigorous its entire life. I have been feeding with DuMore duck crumbles (for all stages of life), and it has been eating lots of green peas. I have also been adding amoxicillin clavulinate to the water, as well as salt, baking soda, and sugar (along with fresh water as well). There has been essentially no discernable change in this duckling. I can find virtually no information on 'wry-neck'; nothing beyond it's a condition. Anything contagious I assume would have infected all the others by now, or killed this duckling, but the others appear unaffected. I hate to think it will spend its entire life this way, but since it seems otherwise perfectly happy, I'm certainly not going to 'euthanize' it. On the other hand, I don't have a hundred dollars for a vet visit either. Do you have any experience with symptoms of this sort and what the likely prgnosis is?
Kindly,
Chris