I'm buying the calcium today. I was hoping to find it at the local stores, but they didn't carry it. I have to go through Amazon or maybe Chewy will have it. I read that when the preening gland isn't working that it's a sign of vitamin A deficiency. Please tell me how dawn helps with the feathers.
Yes, her gizzard is OK and she's eating, drinking and pooping.
I'm ordering the gluconate. Is powder better or liquid? In giving her 1 tbsp of egg shell powder now.
First, I need to say her GIZZARD was impacted and not her crop. I was confused 😕
The vet isn't an avian vet, but he has seen many ducks and he's never had a duck that laid several eggs without shells and didn't know what to tell us. He didn't give any suggestions about the wet feathers. He...
Thank you, Lydia. She was in a bad way last night and she was sleepy and quiet. I held her for a while before I put her to bed. This morning she was vocal, but still sluggish. My husband and I are taking her to see the vet today.
We stopped giving her oyster shells because of the impacted crop...
I'm afraid to wash her with Dawn. What if she drinks the soapy water or if it gets in her eyes?
It has been a few days now and she still gets wet feathers. We've been keeping her inside and she started laying eggs again, but they don't have shells. I'll attach a picture from the one she laid...
We let her out this morning, but my husband will be checking on her and if he notices her looking raggedy again, he'll bring her in. I'll try the dawn if it happens again. We're so attached to her (Lil'bit) because she is special. She's our little human duck. ❤️🥰
Same thread, same duck, but a different problem. Our female Pekin is so much better and she's pooing regularly and she has her appetite back, so today we let her go outside with the others. She was only out for a few hours and it rained and she is drenched. She looks mangy and dirty and wet 🥺 I...
I wasn't told to massage the crop...so, I did that and it actually worked!!! She let me do it too lol she enjoyed it so much! Poor baby....she made a little sound and I just kept massaging for half an hour and she turned around completely! I am so happy....we did not want her to have surgery. I...
She hasn't eat much the last 2 days. Today, she's very lethargic and doesn't talk or make noises. She just drinks and sleeps. She's in the house now. Doctor said to not have her outside. I thought grit would be bad, because the oyster bits are the same size as grit.
1 yr old, female pekin, laid her first egg with no shell. We took her to the vet 2 days later, because she hadn't laid another egg and we were afraid she was egg bound. Doctor found no egg and x-rayed and discovered that her crop was impacted with oyster bits. I saw the x-ray and the crop was...