Duck with swollen chest

[duckmamakenzie]

My duck has a super swollen & awkward looking chest right now. He can't put his head down to eat or forage. It wasn't like this last week.. thoughts?

 

[duckmamakenzie]

Here's another pic of him with all the other ducks.

 

[chickens really]

It looks like gorged himself on something....Like he ate lots and not enough pebbles to help digest what he consumed..You could separate him and try giving him some grit to help break down whats in his crop.......

Best wishes....

 

[Miss Lydia]

It looks like gorged himself on something....Like he ate lots and not enough pebbles to help digest what he consumed..You could separate him and try giving him some grit to help break down whats in his crop.......

Best wishes....

@duckmamakenzie What are you feeding your ducks? feed and snacks?

 

[macyduck]

Massage his crop to try and help it break down what's in there

 

[Ninuschka]

I've seen a similar thing happen to two of my Muscovy ducks. Basically, the neck/chest area was swollen, almost touching the ground. It seemed like the ducks had food stuck in their 'crops' (though apparently Muscovy duck don't have crops like chickens do).
The first time I didn't know what to do, and after some time I decided to dispatch the duck; in hindsight this turned out to be a wise decision.
In a normal duck (or chicken) there are a set of glands down the sides of the esophagus and trachea (wind pipe). In the cases of these two ducks, one or more of the glands had grown abnormally large. In fact, I found with the first duck that what should have been a bean sized gland had swollen to tennis ball size!
The attached image shows the second duck which had this complication; in this case I recognized problem and didn't let the situation progress too far.

 

[CoriM]

I had this issue a couple months ago with my welsh harlequin. Here is the thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/crop-issue.1486362/#post-24778688
I used ducolax as advised by Miss Lydia and massaged her crop several times during the day. She was back to normal the next day.

 

[CoriM]

Oops, didn't realize this was an old thread!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oops, didn't realize this was an old thread!

Doesn't matter if it's old, it may help someone else