Crud. No shell, Romy's puny.

[Miss Lydia]

Thanks, Carcajou, prayers are much appreciated.


She is chatting a little, now, passed some membrane. Let me go find that photo.

Update! Romy has started bossing me!

Her tail is up just a little (maybe still some abdominal discomfort). I nabbed the membrane to show the vet, though I doubt they'll really need to see it. This shows the membrane before she completely passed it.




Now I need to finish getting us all situated, but I will likely check in before vet time.

We'll take it a a good sign when they start to boss. Shes so pretty and has a wonderful duck mama too.

 

[Amiga]

She ate her peas and we are at the vet and she has wiggled her tail some.

 

[Miss Lydia]

She ate her peas and we are at the vet and she has wiggled her tail some.

 

[Carcajou]

Pretty duck! Hope she is doing better.

 

[Amiga]

Romy update:

We hope she's gonna be okay. No injection needed today, she looked quite fine at the vet, weighs 4.7 pounds.

While free choice oyster shell is always before her, and I mix the regular Mazuri Waterfowl with Organic Layer half and half during the off-season, Romy isn't either eating enough or very efficient with her calcium. Okay.

The plan: give her Neocalglucan for two weeks to help catch her up,1.5 mL 2x/day for 3 days then 1.5 mL once a day for 10.

Meanwhile, add calcium gluconate 23% solution 1 tsp per 4 oz drinking water, change daily.

I plan to do some arithmetic and add the Ca gluconate to their feed so they'll get more of it.

And we will be going to all layer feed. Bean will get opportunities to chow down on the plain Waterfowl feed.

For Bean, to be on the safe side, I will give him non-calcium treats more often, separate from the girls, so he will eat less of the layer feed.

And we will see how things go.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Romy update:

We hope she's gonna be okay. No injection needed today, she looked quite fine at the vet, weighs 4.7 pounds.

While free choice oyster shell is always before her, and I mix the regular Mazuri Waterfowl with Organic Layer half and half during the off-season, Romy isn't either eating enough or very efficient with her calcium. Okay.

The plan: give her Neocalglucan for two weeks to help catch her up,1.5 mL 2x/day for 3 days then 1.5 mL once a day for 10.

Meanwhile, add calcium gluconate 23% solution 1 tsp per 4 oz drinking water, change daily.

I plan to do some arithmetic and add the Ca gluconate (C12H22CaO14, if you care to know) to their feed so they'll get more of it.

And we will be going to all layer feed. Bean will get opportunities to chow down on the plain Waterfowl feed.

For Bean, to be on the safe side, I will give him non-calcium treats more often, separate from the girls, so he will eat less of the layer feed.

And we will see how things go.

Wonderful news A, sigh of relief. Good plan and hopefully it will make a big difference. Oh Bean will be separated from the girls? I doubt he'll like that.

 

[Amiga]

Wonderful news A, sigh of relief. Good plan and hopefully it will make a big difference. Oh Bean will be separated from the girls? I doubt he'll like that.

Bean will only be separated for a few minutes at a time, just long enough for him to dig into his own personal noms. I'm thinking tossed salad with mealworms. Sound appetizing?

Romette will be getting her own special treats, too, since giving her the neocalglucan mashed up in peas is less traumatic for both of us than using the oral syringe.

 

[Going Quackers]

I'm glad she is on the mend. I am impressed you could get a vet, that doesn't exist here.period. All vets here will do is put down poultry. How did they find out she is having calcium absorbing issues?

I use flock raiser here as i think most know, i can in no way keep the drakes away, heck one is housed with 7 of the 8 ducks as it is, the other duck goes with her drake but they have no feed/water at night due to there location in the barn.

I have one duck laying again... the shells are nice and solid, no oyster shell is out right now... that said i will likely be buying some as clearly she is going to continue this nonsense lol I give the chickens egg shells... they eat the same FR.

My FR is really reasonable 55lbs for 18.25$ i know precisely as my husband bought some on Thursday lol

 

[Amiga]

I'm glad she is on the mend. I am impressed you could get a vet, that doesn't exist here.period. All vets here will do is put down poultry. How did they find out she is having calcium absorbing issues?

I use flock raiser here as i think most know, i can in no way keep the drakes away, heck one is housed with 7 of the 8 ducks as it is, the other duck goes with her drake but they have no feed/water at night due to there location in the barn.

I have one duck laying again... the shells are nice and solid, no oyster shell is out right now... that said i will likely be buying some as clearly she is going to continue this nonsense lol I give the chickens egg shells... they eat the same FR.

My FR is really reasonable 55lbs for 18.25$ i know precisely as my husband bought some on Thursday lol

Thanks, GQ, there are three or four duck vets in our tiny state. It's a blessing. We have to drive about an hour, but I chalk it up to educational expense at this point. I may not always be able to swing it, so I try to learn all that I can each visit. There's a chicken vet half an hour from here, and she has helped us once with a splinter that made Romy's foot swell up.

I'm going to try Naturewise layer now, by the way. $20.20 for 50 pounds. Wonderful to hear about solid egg shells. Really. I hope we get there with everybody very soon.

The vet works with all kinds of birds, and has studied egg shell issues. She says sometimes they just don't eat enough of what's offered, sometimes for some unknown reason they don't process it into egg shells very well. And yes, since most of the time the answer is to kill the bird, not much research has gone into finding out what's going wrong with the whole process. So we infer.

Thanks again everyone who has checked in here. I posted the dosage amounts because recently someone wanted to know how much Ca gluconate to give the ducks and I could not find my notes on that. So it will be in the archive.

 

[ChampionAlex]

Good luck !