Da' Cute and Cuddly Call Duck thread!

[casportpony]

Has anyone ever though about starting a Call Duck website that shows all the different colors of ducklings and adults? This is one that someone in the peafowl forum started for peafowl:
http://peafowlimagedatabase.weebly.com/

-Kathy

 

[Tevyes Dad]

@Amykins how's the little bean doing today?

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[Amykins]

She just made a solid poops! No green foam at all!

 

[casportpony]

She just made a solid poops! No green foam at all! 

That's great, so happy for you! Curiously, when the vet looked at her poop, did she suspect coccidiosis, bacteria or both?

-Kathy

 

[18angovem]

Has anyone ever though about starting a Call Duck website that shows all the different colors of ducklings and adults? This is one that someone in the peafowl forum started for peafowl:
http://peafowlimagedatabase.weebly.com/

-Kathy

There is one for ducklings and another for adults. They just arent on the same page.

 

[Amykins]

That's great, so happy for you! Curiously, when the vet looked at her poop, did she suspect coccidiosis, bacteria or both?

-Kathy

No, nothing. She had a few bacterial strains but nothing excessive or out of the ordinary for a 6-day old duckling. The vet suspects that she simply had an allergic reaction, and although it's extremely rare for a bird to have an allergy to trimeth-sulfa, it does happen. We haven't done further testing yet because that would require a blood sample and she's nowhere near healthy enough to extract one. And also we're flat broke.

 

[casportpony]

 
Has anyone ever though about starting a Call Duck website that shows all the different colors of ducklings and adults? This is one that someone in the peafowl forum started for peafowl:
http://peafowlimagedatabase.weebly.com/

-Kathy

There is one for ducklings and another for adults. They just arent on the same page. 

What are the links to them?

-Kathy

 

[18angovem]

Here is the basic call duckling color chart http://www.faithvalleywaterfowl.com/call_colors.html

Here is a big list of colors http://www.sherborneducks.co.uk/ColoursandCallsbyJaneEdington.htm

Here is a list of recognised colors http://www.callducks.net/standards&photos1.htm

 

[casportpony]

That's great, so happy for you! Curiously, when the vet looked at her poop, did she suspect coccidiosis, bacteria or both?


-Kathy

No, nothing. She had a few bacterial strains but nothing excessive or out of the ordinary for a 6-day old duckling. The vet suspects that she simply had an allergic reaction, and although it's extremely rare for a bird to have an allergy to trimeth-sulfa, it does happen. We haven't done further testing yet because that would require a blood sample and she's nowhere near healthy enough to extract one. And also we're flat broke. 

Okay... Just curious. This may sound crazy, but I study poop. Not professionally or scientifically, just here at my house with my birds and pictures that people post. So if you had said that the vet suspected coccidiosis, I could add to my mental database that foamy poop in ducklings could mean a protozo like coccidia. In birds other than waterfowl, I have noticed that foamy poop almost always means a protozoa like coccidiosis or histomoniasis (blackhead). Not trying to say your vet is wrong , just sharing what I have seen in chickens, peafowl and turkeys. With ducks I have not seen any foamy poop yet.

Sure hope she continues to improve!

-Kathy

 

[Amykins]

Okay... Just curious. This may sound crazy, but I study poop. Not professionally or scientifically, just here at my house with my birds and pictures that people post. So if you had said that the vet suspected coccidiosis, I could add to my mental database that foamy poop in ducklings could mean a protozo like coccidia. In birds other than waterfowl, I have noticed that foamy poop almost always means a protozoa like coccidiosis or histomoniasis (blackhead). Not trying to say your vet is wrong

, just sharing what I have seen in chickens, peafowl and turkeys. With ducks I have not seen any foamy poop yet.

Sure hope she continues to improve!

-Kathy

I think the foam was due to her not having anything in her GI tract since she refused to eat. :/ There shouldn't be anything in her gut now since the new antibiotic they put her on totally wipes out everything in her system (that's why sulfa is the standard, as it's powerful against harmful strains but is relatively gentle on helpful ones). So we also have her on bene-bac to reestablish her natural gut flora now that the treatment's almost over and she's eating on her own. Her air sacs aren't 100% yet but she's clearly fighting off the pneumonia since when I went to clean her water dish she began making alarm peeps!


Also, no shame in studying poop! Poop analysis is a staple of veterinary medicine, I've seen enough poops to last a lifetime and then some, LOL!

Here is the basic call duckling color chart http://www.faithvalleywaterfowl.com/call_colors.html

Here is a big list of colors http://www.sherborneducks.co.uk/ColoursandCallsbyJaneEdington.htm

Here is a list of recognised colors http://www.callducks.net/standards&photos1.htm

Hehe, gotta love arbitrary breed standardization. Oh you COULD have all these gorgeous colors, but we will only acknowledge a few of them.