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That is wonderful to hear! I was wondering how he was doing.

That is awesome to hear! I am glad he is on his way to making a full recovery.

That is great to hear that he is starting to do better! It can sometimes be mixed emotions of happiness and frustration as they start to get better and can fight you more.

@dlschnars how is your duck doing?

This seems a bit vague to me. You may want to talk to the vet for clarification. Rooster booster is a brand. They could be taking about rooster booster poultry cell, rooster booster vitamins and electrolytes and I can go on with this list. So Naicin is a B vitamin. The B12 you mentioned long...

I had the same thing. I had a large chunk of metal that I found on the property. The previous owner piled burned some weird stuff. I am sometimes run the area with a magnet just to check. I randomly found a can once. I think some animal dragged it around. I think they have a call into a vet.

Have you still been giving him the naicin?

For the naicin to be effective, it needs to be directly administered to the duck and not put in the water. Since you are already tube feeding. I would personally add into whatever you are tube feeding so you don't need to orally administer with a syringe. This is likely why the naicin is not...

So when tube feeding I have always taken their pellets, added water, and threw it in a blender. I have never used the kaytee food. I do understand it gets tiring. I do still wonder if he got something like botulism or ate something toxic. Activated charcoal to me would be worth trying. It...

The honeycombs, if you have a syringe, you can give it 1ml a day of this. A dropper full is just under that, so it would probably work ok. I have never used the rooster booster B-12. This one doesn't have naicin in it. This is what I use. But I think your honeycomb niacin should be sufficient.

You have a beautiful flock.

Can you take a picture of the bottle? It also sounds like you have two different naicin supplements or I am misreading that.

That is great to hear. The tube feeding should give you more time to figure out what is going on.

That is great you were able to tube feed! It really can be a huge lifesaver. For fluids, you can give it 50mls at a time. I treated my runner that is pretty small, and she called for over 50mls. You can do 14 ml per lb. Especially since you won't be around much during the day, the more fluids...

You can also try giving him some herbs as well. They are normally used to treat wry neck. I don't think that is what is going on, but it may help strengthen it's neck. Here is a link about wry neck and herbs used to treat it...

If he hasn't pooped in a while, you will want to give him fluids until he does. You can the electrolytes, Gatorade or sugar to the water to help give him energy. Tube feeding will certainly give them more energy.

The kaytee food is designed for hand feeding, which is done with a syringe, so it will be fine. I usually take pellet food and put it in a blender with water, which ends up thicker and that works just fine. When tube feeding, you will want to do just liquids first to make sure your duck is...

Oh. You will want coat the syringe plunger as well with it. It will help it move smoothly. Sometimes they can be a bit sticky

I use olive oil.

You may be able to find the catheter at Walmart or TSC. You can also use aquarium tubing if you can't find any it. The tubing just needs to be supple and soft. The end will need to be slightly melted with a flame to just soften the ends so they don't cut its. Throat when going down. Otherwise...