duck died in her sleep? helpppp

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thanks for all your suggestions guys! i’d really like to be able to get a necropsy but the nearest bird vet is like an hour away, or does it have to be a vet or....?
they’re pinned in for the winter and there’s nothing poisonous growing in there, they all have access to food and water and they don’t get picked on by the chickens plus they have their own insulated area for sleeping at night, we were thinking maybe she somehow got a tiny piece of glass because the folks who owned the land before us decided to make their own dump on the property but we cleaned that up years ago and anyway idk how she’d be able to find it buried in the snow..
she was only a few months away from being a year old and as far as we know she’d never laid an egg, which now that i think about and am actually looking it up it sounds.... odd, i guess we assumed she’d start up next spring since she came into age in the fall

but yeah i dunno, it’s sad
having a drink tonight for chungus

It doesn't have to be a vet, you could do what johntfs suggested and call that number.

It could've been that she found something from that stuff you cleaned up years ago. Sometimes there are stuff you don't see and it could've stayed there for a while until your duck found it. It could've been glass, nails, screws, staples, like DuckyDonna said.

It is strange that your duck hadn't laid an egg yet. Did she have another male around her? Because usually, ducks start laying eggs at around 3-5 months and you said she was almost a year old. That might've been a problem, she could've been egg bound. With a necropsy you'd be able to see if it was that. But, it could've been something else. I guess you'll have to find out with the necropsy, if you're able to do that.