Recent content by micaelasducks

Thank you!!! We will get some. She is still struggling today but hoping for the best.

Hi all! I took in a female pekin this past september (so 5 months ago). She was adopted from the SPCA and the only information I had is that it was some kind of animal hoarder situation. I assume her diet was probably not ideal. She started laying eggs in early January -- so that makes us think...

@Miss Lydia @KaleIAm thank you both for your thoughts! Sounds like ducks are pretty steadfast layers! Still no real eggs this year other than the strange mostly shell egg. Sounds like we are in similar positions where we sort of wished they would stop laying!! I have a Blue Swedish and a...

Hi everyone. I have a pair if 8 year olds ducks living out their golden years. In the past we have had issues with laying eggs -- one of them had a lash egg last summer and it was quite the drama involving nursing her back from near death. We also lost a female duck to egg binding/prolapse in...

And here is today... updating because I know it could help someone someday -- it definitely is still sore and bothering her but it sure looks more normal!

Just sharing my experience -- I had a duck lay a lash egg last summer. She was quite ill but recovered after a round of antibiotics (I believe it was amoxicillin or similar), meloxicam (pain reliever) and re-hydration at the vet. She started acting ill prior to laying the egg -- we thought she...

Here is another photo today -- still very strange to me and I can't tell what the issue is, but thankfully doesn't look *worse* (possibly better? She is holding the eye open vs closed now). Still learning towards injury vs infection. I'm assuming the "goopiness" around her eye is from the...

Hi all! This morning we noticed my blue swedish keeping her eye closed (first picture). When we started to look closer her eye appears totally glazed over and as if there is a white film covering it -- possibly we are looking at the inner eyelid? It is hard to tell what is the eye and what is...

Thank you! I will definitely consider the colloidal silver. I am having to syringe small amounts onto her tongue to get her to do the meds -- I am so worried about her potentially aspirating. The syringes I have are pretty small so when I attempted to get visibility on her glottis it seemed so...

I'm really hoping she starts to become more interested in food again soon. She accepted two cherry tomatoes from me earlier today and a few bites of lettuce. Other food she will take, chew a bit, and then spit out. I wonder if she is feeling "full" because of any inflammation in her...

I've never heard of that. Seems like antibiotics are the right course of action then.

Morning! My girl is much more active today than she has been. NOT happy with me squirting the antibiotics into her mouth but I decided that is definitely the best way instead of trying to "trick" her into eating them with food she likes. She was mad at me after and wouldn't accept the apology...

She has been on meloxicam since the beginning of us noticing her symptoms! We get the antibiotics which I tried to hide in her food and she totally rejected, so I'll have to figure out how to best syringe it down her throat. HOWEVER, we believe she passed THIS incredibly gross thing this...

Hi everyone! I just got a call from our vet and her labs showed signs of infection, so we are getting her started on some antibiotics. I am not sure if the impacted gizzard would cause infection so my current theory is learning strongly towards a soft/shell-less egg "stuck" inside her and/or egg...

Thanks -- it is worth a try. What would the dose be? She is so tiny.