Duckling Diaries: the Life and Times of a Welshie Trio

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Yeah, I blended up some tuna for her the other day, and I put her food pellets into sav a chick to dissolve it.

She's also showing small signs of improvement in other ways... Like this morning, she protested and tried to move away when I was putting ointment in the wound on her head. Much more like Chrissy than yesterday's calm acceptance of gooshy stuff on her head.
 
She still hasn't eaten anything more than two pellets of grain. Not good.

I'm looking into tubing her, but her neck/head is so beat up I'm afraid of messing with it....
 
BantyChooks said:
She still hasn't eaten anything more than two pellets of grain. Not good.

I'm looking into tubing her, but her neck/head is so beat up I'm afraid of messing with it....
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@casportpony maybe able to give you some tips on tube feeding one that has injuries to neck and head.
Here is something she put together that also has info on Tube feeding.. You def don't want to wait too long to start they can lose weight quickly and That won't help with recovery

Bless her heart. and yours
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https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...rgency-and-supportive-care-updated-10-30-2016
 
Kathy had put up a great set of pictures on giving medicine with the syringe. This helped me a bit since I am currently medicating one of my ducks. But while I was looking for more info on tube feeding / medicating, I stumbled across this article: http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/12/the-physiology-of-foie-why-foie-gras-is-not-u.html. I have never eaten foie gras and I realize that it is a sore spot with many BYC members, but I did find this article interesting and the birds getting their gavage by a competent person don't seem as stressed as my duck was getting her meds from me. If you watch the video of the gavage (and read the article), it really emphasizes how different the bird anatomy is from ours. Then I think about Entie swallowing a grape tomato whole that is 50% bigger than her neck since it is past her trachea, she doesn't choke on it, even if it takes her a couple seconds to move it through her neck. This really gave me perspective to get the syringe way past the tongue down into the esophagus way past the trachea opening and shoot the meds in full speed with no chance of her aspirating any of the meds. Seems crazy to us with our gag reflexes, but Casey is much less stressed getting her meds now and I know that 1" of syringe down her throat can't even compare to 8" of feeding tube like the video.
 
Oh Banty, I'm so sorry...good thing you killed that awful marten!

All you can do is be there for Chrissy. How bad is her neck? Tube feeding is pretty simple, but if you're that worried, maybe a vet could help? When Bean wouldn't eat, I gave her Critical Care formula in her water.
 

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