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    Sick ducklings - please help!

    Thank you so much. Do you think the babies would be able to handle such a trip? I've never had to bring ducklings to the vet before. I don't think the little guy would do well with it but if they could help him survive I would do anything possible. I've just always heard that baby birds are hard...
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    Sick ducklings - please help!

    UPDATE: Three of the babies are doing great and seem to be fine but the 4th one hasn't been growing and seems very sickly :( I've been putting a drop of vinigar in one water bowl and also have been putting nutritional yeast on their food and some mixed with a bit of water for them to eat if they...
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    Sick ducklings - please help!

    The vet is around a 20 min boat ride and a half hour drive away. It might be too stressful on the mom and babies :(
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    Sick ducklings - please help!

    I'm not 100% sure what kind but they look like miniature silver Appleyard to me. We got them from a Mennonite family and I don't think they told us the breed
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    Sick ducklings - please help!

    I put them back with her right away as I found out I had to leave the next day and couldn't keep an eye on them. They seemed to enjoy the warmth of the house for a bit at least! I thought maybe it was something they could catch from her because I notices she's been wheezing a lot and has a bit...
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    Sick ducklings - please help!

    Probably a little over a year. We thought maybe something happened to her because one of our big male ducks would pick on her. We were hoping it would clear up but it never did :(
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    Sick ducklings - please help!

    Thank you so much for the advise. The ducklings have only been away from the mom a few hours and they seem alright. I have a thermometer in with them and one end of the box is between 25 & 30 degrees. I'm trying to keep it at 30 so they can choose which end to go to. I'm sure the mom would be...
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    Sick ducklings - please help!

    Thank you for the advise. The mom duck was fine for the first few years of us having her but then suddenly she started having a hard time walking. I just started feeding them duckling feed today but I'm not sure what it has in it because I got it off a woman who had ducklings nearbye. We have...
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    Sick ducklings - please help!

    Thank you so much for the reply and advise, and thank you for keeping us in your thoughts! I will definitely try that as I don't want anything else to happen to them anymore. I was thinking maybe momma duck might have gotten worms but I have never seen a duck with worms before so I didn't know...
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    Sick ducklings - please help!

    I'm new here so thank you for the add :) I had a couple questions about my ducklings that hatched a few days ago. My miniature duck hatched out 6 ducklings a few days ago and all was well at first but I then noticed one of the ducklings wasn't eating or drinking and had labored breathing and...
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