2 Cayuga Girls & 1 Cayuga Drake

[Miss Lydia]

I really don’t know if it will help. How does she seem?

 

[TheHighlandChick01]

I really don’t know if it will help. How does she seem?

Well that’s the thing: she seems better than yesterday. Lots of happy quacking & dunking her head. She’s also been standing upright versus hunching. In the Doctor’s office she walked all around & the Doc thought she was looking for food.

She’s been eating peaches, it’s the only food she’s interested in, and I have her in the tub right now.

Her stomach has been gurgling like crazy.

 

[TheHighlandChick01]

She’s shaking food out of her mouth. What does this mean?

 

[TheHighlandChick01]

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony & @Miss Lydia

Other duck thread said to put her in warm Epsom bath to help get things moving. Would this be helpful or harmful?

I would not unless the vet suggests it.

 

[TheHighlandChick01]

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The food needs to come out the other end so I just don’t think this can be a good thing. Thoughts

 

[TheHighlandChick01]

I would not unless the vet suggests it.

@casportpony

@Miss Lydia

I heard our vet speaking with another vet and she said she had no idea what to do nor what to recommend. She said she was at an absolute loss.

The vet was also supposed to call me with the results from the poop testing and she didn’t.

 

[Kiwibird]

Most ducks get food into their water. I think yours will do this more because she probably cannot get much down.

Maybe you can email some of the suggestions you have received to the vet?

I know that caged bird people sometimes feed oiled seeds for blockages, so maybe that is where the oil idea came from. I would still ask the vet's opinion of the idea.

 

[Kiwibird]

This is about chickens, but it is similar. They did okay: http://poultrykeeperforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4713

 

[TheHighlandChick01]

This is about chickens, but it is similar. They did okay: http://poultrykeeperforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4713

Thank you for reaching out again! I really appreciate it. According to the doctor her crop is empty but earlier tonight she spit up peas from yesterday morning.

In looking at the X-ray the blockage goes from her heart & all the way down. I heard the Doc tell the other doctor she had no idea what to do. She told me to try the fluids and then bring her back in tomorrow morning @ 8:30 for the procedure. It all seems like it’s going so fast but then again between Mama not eating & then the doctor only working three days this week...‍

On the other duck thread the person who is the admin was confident olive oil would push everything through in time. I didn’t try it because someone on this thread said I probably shouldn’t do anything w/out first running it by the doctor. Being safe makes sense but then of course there’s this deadline of taking her back in by 8:30 tomorrow morning.

I honestly don’t understand how the doctor thinks she can manually get enough grit out without doing surgery. I read earlier where when this happens to parakeets they operate to remove all of the impacted grit but perhaps it’s just not done with ducks? I honestly have no idea.