Bloody vent

[casportpony]

Do a google search for avian medicine egg binding, maybe that will have some good links to read.

-Kathy

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hows your duck doing this morning?

 

[TwoDogFarm]

Hows your duck doing this morning?

Thanks for asking. I ended up having to take her back to the vet. She was straining this morning and I felt and sure enough, there was an egg. The vet only told me he put two stitches in yesterday, but he had put 4 in. He removed 2 of them, got the egg out and told me that he would rather her not lay for a couple of weeks but if she does now, she should be able to pass it. He recommended keeping her on layer because if she does lay at all, she will need it for the shell development. He just said to reduce her intake amount.

 

[Amykins]

How are you supposed to stop a duck from laying eggs, though? I know reducing their food intake can delay an egg, but not stop it outright. And I feel bad for letting a duck go hungry, even if it is in their best interest.

 

[TwoDogFarm]

How are you supposed to stop a duck from laying eggs, though? I know reducing their food intake can delay an egg, but not stop it outright. And I feel bad for letting a duck go hungry, even if it is in their best interest.

That's kind of what he said too. He offered some suggestions. He said today to try keeping her in the dark and reducing her food intake. He also said to try making a nest with eggs in it to see if she sits. He said taking an egg away in rare species of birds causes them to keep laying and that's how scientists try to boost population. So leaving them there may cause her hormones to slow down for a while. She's not really a sitter, but it's worth a shot.

 

[Amykins]

We used to place ping pong balls underneath a hen when we wanted to encourage her to go broody or stop laying, but chickens are considerably dumber than ducks, so I don't know if it'd work.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That's kind of what he said too. He offered some suggestions. He said today to try keeping her in the dark and reducing her food intake. He also said to try making a nest with eggs in it to see if she sits. He said taking an egg away in rare species of birds causes them to keep laying and that's how scientists try to boost population. So leaving them there may cause her hormones to slow down for a while. She's not really a sitter, but it's worth a shot.

When one of Amigas ducks had to have stitches I'm pretty sure she went broody right after and stayed broody for a couple months which helped her get over her prolapse Hopefully Amiga will tell it better than me. lol. I'm glad he did say keeping her in the dark might help. And maybe she is at the end of this laying cycle and that will help too.

 

[Amiga]

Sechs figured it out for herself, the egg part. I just had her in the night pen with curtains over the windows so it was fairly dark. There were three eggs in the pen that I had not collected, and doggone if she did not roll them over to a corner, build a nest and start sitting.

She sat for at least two months, 8 to 12 hours on the nest, then a 15 minute break to poop, eat, drink, swim, run around like a maniac, then back on the nest for another 12 or so.

 

[casportpony]

Drastically reducing their caloric intake will cease production of more eggs, but it will not do anything for the ones coming down the pipe. The vet is correct, she will need the calcium, vitamins and minerals in the layer feed to to pass any remaining eggs.

When my duck did this she passed three eggs before she could start to heal. During this time I kept her in my dimly lit bathroom room and fed her very little. About two weeks later her prolapse healed and she went back outside.

-Kathy

 

[Miss Lydia]

How are your girls doing today?