I’m so sorry again for your loss. Glad the others are doing well! I think maybe putting the syringe down the right side of her throat or even a tube like tube feeding might work if it’s oiled and we could get it to go in past the swelling but anyway, hopefully this doesn’t happen again to any of...
@Stoney Meadow Maple
Again i’m so sorry about your duck. I was wondering if you decided to do a necropsy to see what was in there that was blocking her swallowing ?
Sometimes a duck can eat something like a popped balloon that fell down from the sky.
I don’t have any banties , but I almost got a couple of call Ducks and I was planning on letting them run around with all my big ducks. I don’t have a lot of wide open space though there’s a lot of trees and bushes and all kinds of other obstacles like swingsets, playhouses chair, chairs...
By the way for future reference - children’s Benadryl dosage for Waterfowl - don’t use grape flavor ( I used bubble gum flavor for a goose who was stung in the neck by a wasp and it helped her)
if it’s swollen from a wasp /bee you can give children’s Benadryl
When one of my ducks was choking on something I gave her little chunks of solid coconut oil
But if it’s swollen I wouldn’t do that
I’ll try to find the Benadryl dosage
Give her a deeper water container so she can dunk her...