Recent content by goosefinn

I haven’t had a chance to ask my vet if she’d be willing to draw anything off yet since she’s only in the office once a week and is the only avian vet within an hour of where I live. It’s a real pain in my side trying to get ahold of her. I don’t have any other fullbred runners, but I do have...

She’s around 3 and a half years old. I can’t tell if it can be moved or not since it takes up her entire belly area— trying to grab hold of it and push it side to side just ends up moving the whole bird.

She’s been getting bigger and bigger for about a year and a half, I’d say. I’m not sure if the vet would be willing to try drawing anything because she believes that it’s fat and “might be common to the breed” (even though I told her runners are bred to be lean little things). Her diagnosis of...

I originally thought it might be fluid buildup because the majority had some squish to it— it feels taut like a drum— but there are bits that are extra squishy or extra hard.

She hasn’t laid eggs in around a year, I’d say. Last we had was the collapsed egg around 7 months ago. That egg was in there for a while, though— vet saw a developing egg in March, it came out in May. This makes me think that it could be another egg, but it’s been a gradual gaining of weight...

Hey y’all! Long time lurker, first time poster. I have this lovely 3 year old runner duck named Bee, and she’s a bit of a medical mystery. Her stomach is incredibly distended/bloated/fat, and neither my vet or myself can figure out why. It’s concerning me because her little butt drags on the...