Anyone Know How to Make Sick Duck Eat?!

[The Chicken-Boy]

I have a Silver Appleyard duck that got sick about three weeks ago. At first it just acted tired, then stopped eating. At times it had head/neck tremors as well. Last week it finally started eating (the day before we left for a week long vacation: great timing, right?!). Three days into the trip our poultry-sitter told us the duck had stopped eating. Throughout this entire sickness she has been drinking normally. It hasn't eaten since 7/21 a.m. Before this it weighed (I would guess) about 8 pounds, now it weighs probably 4. After much research, I finally concluded that it would be best to give it a Coccidiostat to see if that helped (thinking that it was going to die of starvation or whatever else was wrong with it and that the amprolium (apparently the safest for ducks) couldn't hurt) in it's drinking water.

However, I still need to get the duck to eat. Do you have any ideas of what might entice her? Already tried her regular food, fish, and scrambled egg.

Thanks in advance for your ideas!

 

[Miss Lydia]

At this stage she needs to be tube fed if you want her to live she has lost a lot of weight.

In this link you'll find info on what you need and how to Just keep scrolling down till you come to it and @casportpony is expert at helping with this.

Have you tried making duck soup sometimes if they are drinking they will drink their feed if made soupy. I use warm water.

 

[The Phantom]

@casportpony

 

[The Chicken-Boy]

Have you tried making duck soup sometimes if they are drinking they will drink their feed if made soupy. I use warm water.

Thanks for the idea! I'll try that. She is drinking very well and is still pooping.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Keep us updated on her please.

 

[The Chicken-Boy]

I will! Going out to check one her now.

 

[The Chicken-Boy]

Duck Update!
When I went out to check on her she was sleeping. I put some small pieces of clover and a little food in her water and she ate a little of that. I'm making her some soup now!

 

[The Chicken-Boy]

Stopped trying to get away from me when i go into her pen. Wouldn't eat the soup, put some on her bill, wouldn't eat it. Can barely hold her head up. I don't think she would live through the stress of tube feeding her because she gets very stressed out if I'm near her for to long. Sick chickens are so much easier to take care of!!

 

[The Chicken-Boy]

Also, won't drink unless I hold her.

 

[The Chicken-Boy]

Poop is clear with a few dark brownish green splotches.