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His neck is back to normal!? - Love it! Good job Ghazal! :clap:highfive:

Well, your wish for more cat-food was fulfilled yesterday: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-quack-shack.1312910/post-23634872 I assume Pasqual is doing fine?

Don't be worried about Pascal swallowing a marble! As described that marble here has travelled through a lot of ducks without harming them, it is round, has no sharp edges and won't get stuck in their intestines. The same would happen when Pascal would swallow a Marble, but your will have the...

The story of the dang glass marble: In fall of 2018 i saw one of my ducks swallowing a green round glass marble before i could take it away from her. Since then I have spotted it being swallowed by yet another duck and i can't get to them quickly enough because they know i will take it away so...

Me neither! - But one of my drakes was a fence-bulldozer last year: He (heavy bird) stood on the fence, holding it down so that the girls could walk right into the tomato-patch. And when he saw me coming outside, he ran off, leaving the girls behind trapped in the fence. :plbb I was shocked this...

Had to laugh out when i read this: The message that green tomatoes and tomato plants are poisonous has never reached my ducks. I have to fence in my tomato plants or they will devour them whole, green tomatoes, leaves, stems and roots! This summer they even ate my poisonous potato plants! And...

Pretty names, both! :love

Great news! I am so happy to hear that he is doing better! By the way does "he" have a name? (Please don't call him Afflac!)

You can try to feed him shredded carrots! Those are rich in carotenoids too, unfortunately my ducks won't eat those. Also Pumpkins, sweet potatoes and squashes contain a lot. My ducks would love to eat pumpkins every day, but i'm a lousy pumpkin farmer…

That is an awesome idea, with the bucket! The food will motivate him to stretch his neck, so his body can work it all out. Yes and green kale is as good as red kale for a drake. I'm feeding red kale to my flock because the carotenoids somewhat deepen the colors of the egg-yolks, since he isn't...

So his symptoms appeared somewhat suddenly, out of nowhere? - That almost rules out scoliosis, which establishes slowly over several months. I agree with @Isaac 0, without a thorough exam, including an x-ray this is hard to diagnose, but if the symptoms occurred quickly, like from one day to the...

We need to figure out if that is scoliosis or wry neck: Was he a normal duckling first and developed the symptom later? That would mean it is scoliosis, caused by a gene defect. That would be very hard to improve. Did he had problems right from the get-go? That would point more to wry neck...

Encourage him to look more to the left, but don't force him. If he breaths heavier when moving his head to the left it means he is experiencing pain. Like we suck air in when we experience pain. I agree with you, there is probably not too much you can do for him it is very likely that his spinal...

Hi @Pasqual how is your drake doing today? Yes, @Miss Lydia is right, Nutritional Yeast is a good source for B-vitamins. But i have discovered that feeding NY also makes their poop more smelly. Way more… :sick Probably not what you want with an indoor duck…

Unfortunately i have no idea what is actually wrong with his neck. It could be a nerve issue, B-vitamins may help with that, it could also be something with his muscles, i saw him trembling when he tried to move his head to the left. For the muscles protein (cat-food) and minerals may help. But...

I knew Kuwait is hot, didn't know it is the hottest point on Earth though. Colleagues told me that their backyards (?) - more like back-deserts, just sand with an above ground-pool and a trampoline - have reached 50° during the summer in 2003. They told me »we parked the cars in the front-yard...

Kuwait!? - What an exotic place for a duck! In 2004 i had a three week project in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, i bet Kuwait is as weird as that. 40° in November and bone dry. I would love to hear news from »Our Duck in Kuwait«, at best every day! ;) A local beach would definitely be nice for his...

Sorry for chiming in so late, but you are already in good hands! Agree to starting an antibiotics treatment immediately, your drake shows signs of a general bacterial infection which must be treated as fast as possible. Next those huge bumbles should be properly treated, here in the US there...