Duckie Down

[DesertRoseAZT]

Baby is a 13 1/2 week old peking just one out of my 15. This is my first time with ducks. My flock (all living together) consists of 18 chicks & 15 ducks. I feed them all flock starter switching to grower/ finisher gradually plus duck pellets and fresh produce alongside cutting from the yard such as weedy type plant.
For about a week now Baby has been breathing with his beak open and yesterday was having difficulty with walking.
By time their before dinner snack time came around I noticed baby was not able to walk at all now. I picked him up and put him in a kiddie wading pool on top of a pillow, water and food.
I ordered some niacin and brewer's yeast about five days ago and still has an estimated delivery time of another five days. I had a friend of mine (just by luck) that was in town yesterday so I asked her if she could pick me up some niacin to give Baby as well as the rest of my flock.
I am presuming that Baby is not getting enough niacin in his diet. He seems to be fine and is not acting any different other then the not being able to walk.
Any advise and pointers would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Miss Lydia]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/niacin-deficiency-in-waterfowl.1367557/. I don’t know what niacin you have but if it’s flush free or time released it won’t work and when one of our duckling is showing symptoms like your seeing we get the liquid BComplex and get them on it ASAP. It’s amazing how fast they respond. It’s all in the link I gave up too. Beautiful Pekins ❤

 

[DesertRoseAZT]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/niacin-deficiency-in-waterfowl.1367557/. I don’t know what niacin you have but if it’s flush free or time released it won’t work and when one of our duckling is showing symptoms like your seeing we get the liquid BComplex and get them on it ASAP. It’s amazing how fast they respond. It’s all in the link I gave up too. Beautiful Pekins ❤

I have the Nature's Best 500mg capsules. I was told to open one capsule for every 5 gallons of drinking water so that is what I did last night.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Okay that good too as long as it doesn’t say flush free or time released. Hard to monitor how much he’s getting though with water if you don’t see much improvement in a few days I would get the liquid because you can dose him right over a treat and he’ll get the right dose. Although if you have any tomatoes you could chop him some an add the powder onto the tomatoes so he’ll get a full dose.

 

[DesertRoseAZT]

I put a little on his salad last night too.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

That salad looks good for my lunch. Looks like Baby gets babied

 

[Miss Lydia]

It does look good! He needs at least 125 Mgs of niacin right now daily.

 

[DesertRoseAZT]

That salad looks good for my lunch. Looks like Baby gets babied

L they all do but even more so whenever they're not feeling well which I'm actually kind of concerned because baby did not want to eat today when I came to bring him his food so I'm kind of really really really really worried

 

[Miss Lydia]

did you read that link about niacin deficiency? If you could get Durvet liquid BComolex you can give it to him with a syringe

 

[Ratchnick]

To assume this is niacin deficiency is possibly a gross error. Niacin does not explain the panting. You cant just ignore a major symptom and claim niacin deficiency because the duck is not walking. In addition the duck is 3 months old, niacin defficiency usually happens about 3 weeks. Dose b complex if it makes you feel better but i think you need to continue to search for a better diagnosis.