Duck pooping blood, EMERGENCY

[yagnud]

I haven’t had much experience in taking cares of young ducklings. So lately, 2 of my ducklings started pooping out blood. 1 just died when I woke up so I didn’t know a lot in detail. The 2nd one is still alive but feel a little sluggish. It just sit down and seems like it’s tired. I think partly the reason is because instead of putting water and food at the same time for the ducks, I would put the water separately after the food. I don’t know the specific breed of duck because I hatched them from duck Balut. I honestly don’t know what to do except for just giving it water and waiting it out. The ducklings that’s still alive have pooped out blood twice but still alive.

 

[EverythingDucks]

For one, ducks need to have access to water at all times. They need to be able to wet their food so they can eat it.

Have they been exposed to anything such as puddles or a pond outside? Its possible that they could have gotten some sort of disease from that.

Could you share a picture of the bloody poop?

@Isaac 0

 

[Isaac 0]

Sorry to hear one passed.
Do you have pictures of the stool?
What are you feeding them?

Blood in the droppings can indicate several things; with ducklings, I would be most concerned with coccidiosis, caused by a parasite known as coccidia which attacks the inner intestinal lining, resulting in internal bleeding. There are also several bacteria we may encounter with poultry that can cause blood in the stools - clostridium perfringens is one to name as well.

In an ideal situation, you would collect some of the bloody fecal matter and have it brought to your vet for a fecal analysis; that would include gram staining - most birds will have gram-positive bacilli rods in their stools, if there seeing anything other than that, and in a large amount that's a good suggestion there is a bacterial problem at play. A fecal floatation may able be done to check for any coccidia currently in the stool.

Without such tests, treatment is founded on a conjecture basis, so you could possibly treat for the wrong thing, while the real problem advances. If you are not able to see a vet, I would do a broad treatment, and treat for both coccidiosis, and bacterial infection.
Here is information in regards to that:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/updated-corid-and-amprol-amprolium-dosing.818879/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/medications-for-small-chicks-and-ducklings.1441331/
https://allbirdproducts.com/products/baytril-10

Unfortunately, unless the problem is treated soon, ducklings often prove a poor prognosis as far as dealing with these problems due to their small size, and immunocompromised state of health.

 

[graypes]

wait... you hatched them FROM balut?? isn't that... impossible....

 

[graypes]

im sorry for your loss and this experience! I'm just a bit confused on the balut bit ... how is your duck today?