Help!! Ducklng with hard belly!!

[megchu]

Well that's completely different. The large belly could mean that it has a yolk sac infection, which is not usually treatable without the help of a veterinarian.

-Kathy

Kathy, i want to thank you with all my heart for all of the advise and answers. This forum is great and i will continue visiting it!! I am from Bulgaria and in my town there isn't vet that knows much about ducklings. I tried talking to a vet, but when i told it is about a duckling he send me away. I myslef am studying veterinary medicine but i am still at the very begginig. Without you and the help of the others in this forum i would know what to do!! I'll give my best to help the ducklings and later i will tell you how they are!!
Once again THANK YOU all!!!

 

[casportpony]

You're welcome.

You might want to read these:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/mushy-chick-disease-yolk-sack-infection-omphalitis
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/poultry/omphalitis/overview_of_omphalitis_in_poultry.html
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/2030/preventing-omphalitis-to-reduce-first-week-mortality/
https://poultrykeeper.com/egg-problems/mushy-chick-disease-yolk-sack-infection/

I'm not saying that the one with the large belly has this, just that it might have it.

-Kathy

 

[megchu]

You're welcome.

You might want to read these:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/mushy-chick-disease-yolk-sack-infection-omphalitis
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/poultry/omphalitis/overview_of_omphalitis_in_poultry.html
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/2030/preventing-omphalitis-to-reduce-first-week-mortality/
https://poultrykeeper.com/egg-problems/mushy-chick-disease-yolk-sack-infection/

I'm not saying that the one with the large belly has this, just that it might have it.

-Kathy

I read them and i think that it may be yolk infection. The belly button has a little crust on it(i thought it was normal since all of my older ducklings had one). I will be able to post a picture later when i get home.

 

[casportpony]

I found this interesting:

Source:http://avianmedicine.net/content/uploads/2013/03/46.pdf






-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Some necropsy pictures here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/989900/yolk-sac-infections-warning-graphic-pictures

Warning, they are graphic!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

More here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ng-lots-of-graphic-pictures/110#post_16519552

-Kathy

 

[megchu]

@casportpony
It doesn't look like mine. Mine is with the whole belly swollen, not only around the belly button.

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony
It doesn't look like mine. Mine is with the whole belly swollen, not only around the belly button.

Both of these had huge bellies:

This one was 10 days old


This one was 41 days old:




-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Another possiblity is ascites due to a heart defect.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Both peachicks shown above failed to absorb their yolks. Hard to know if they didn't absorb because of infection of if the infection came later.

-Kathy